Oliver Platt (born January 12, 1960) is a Canadian-born American actor. He is known for his starring roles in many films such as Flatliners (1990), Beethoven (1992), Indecent Proposal, The Three Musketeers (both 1993), Executive Decision, A Time to Kill (both 1996), Dangerous Beauty, Bulworth, The Impostors, Dr. Dolittle (all 1998), Ready to Rumble, Gun Shy (both 2000), Don't Say a Word (2001), Zig Zag (2002), Pieces of April (2003), The Ice Harvest (2005), Martian Child (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), Year One, 2012 (both 2009), Please Give, Love & Other Drugs (both 2010), X-Men: First Class, The Oranges (both 2011), Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2013), Frank and Cindy and One More Time (both 2015).

Filmography

• 2024Babes — Bernie
• The Bear — Uncle Jimmy 'Cicero' Kalinowski
• 2020I'm Thinking of Ending Things — The Voice (voice)
• 2018The Cleanse — Ken Roberts
• 2017Professor Marston and the Wonder Women — M.C. Gaines
• 2016One More Time — Alan
• 2016Rules Don't Apply — Forester
• 2016Shut In — Dr. Wilson
• 2016The 9th Life of Louis Drax — Dr. Perez
• 2016The Ticket — Bob
• 2015Bessie — Carl Van Vechten
• Chicago Med — Dr. Daniel Charles
• 2015Frank and Cindy — Frank Garcia
• 20141964 — Narrator (voice)
• 2014A Merry Friggin' Christmas — Hobo Santa
• 2014Chef — Ramsey Michel
• Chicago P.D. — Dr. Daniel Charles
• 2014Cut Bank — Joe Barrett
• Fargo — Stavros Milos
• 2014Kill the Messenger — Jerry Ceppos
• 2014Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return — Wiser the Owl (voice)
• 2014Sofia the First: The Curse of Princess Ivy — Everburn (voice)
• 2013Gods Behaving Badly — Apollo
• 2013Henry Ford — Narrator (voice)
• 2013JFK — Narrator (voice)
• 2013Lucky Them — Giles
• Sofia the First — Everburn (voice)
• Chicago Fire — Dr. Daniel Charles
• 2012Chinese Zodiac — Lawrence Morgan
• 2012Death and the Civil War — Narrator
• 2012Ginger & Rosa — Mark Two
• 2011Jake and Amir: Fired — Interviewer
• Prohibition — Reader / Al Capone (voice)
• 2011The Oranges — Terry Ostroff
• 2011X-Men: First Class — Man in Black Suit
• 2010Letters to Juliet — New Yorker Magazine Editor Bobby (uncredited)
• 2010Love & Other Drugs — Bruce Winston
• 2010Please Give — Alex
• The Big C — Paul Jamison
• 20092012 — Carl Anheuser
• Bored to Death — Richard Antrem
• Modern Family — Martin
• The Good Wife — R.D.
• 2009Wonder Woman — Hades (voice)
• 2009Year One — High Priest
• 2008Frost/Nixon — Bob Zelnick
• 2007Martian Child — Jeff
• The Bronx Is Burning — George Steinbrenner
• 2007The Ten — Marc Jacobson
• 2007The Thick of It — Malcolm Tucker
• 2005Casanova — Paprizzio
• 2005Loverboy — Mr. Pomeroy
• 2005The Ice Harvest — Pete Van Heuten
• Huff — Russell Tupper
• 2004Kinsey — Herman Wells
• 2003Hope Springs — Doug Reed
• Nip/Tuck — Freddy Prune
• 2003Pieces of April — Jim Burns
• Queens Supreme — Judge Jack Moran
• 2002Ash Wednesday — Moran
• 2002Liberty Stands Still — Victor Wallace
• 2002Zig Zag — Mr. Walters / 'The Toad'
• 2001Don't Say a Word — Dr. Louis Sachs
• Deadline — Wallace Benton
• 2000Gun Shy — Fulvio Nesstra
• 2000Ready to Rumble — Jimmy King
• 1999Bicentennial Man — Rupert Burns
• 1999CinderElmo — Frank / Fairy Godperson
• 1999Lake Placid — Hector Cyr
• The West Wing — Oliver Babish
• 1999Three to Tango — Peter Steinberg
• 1998Bulworth — Dennis Murphy
• 1998Dangerous Beauty — Maffio Venier
• 1998Doctor Dolittle — Dr. Mark Weller
• 1998Simon Birch — Ben Goodrich
• 1998The Impostors — Maurice
• 1996A Time to Kill — Harry Rex Vonner
• 1996Big Night — Associate Producer
• 1996Executive Decision — Cahill
• 1995Funny Bones — Tommy Fawkes
• 1995Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure — Paul Bunyan
• 1995The Infiltrator — Yaron Svoray
• 1993Benny & Joon — Eric
• 1993Indecent Proposal — Jeremy
• 1993The Temp — Jack Hartsell
• 1993The Three Musketeers — Porthos
• 1992Beethoven — Harvey
• 1992Diggstown — Fitz
• 1990Flatliners — Randy Steckle
• 1990Postcards from the Edge — Neil Bleene
• The Word
• 1989Crusoe — Mr. Newby
• American Experience — Narrator (voice)
• 1988Married to the Mob — Ed Benitez
• 1988Working Girl — Lutz
• Wiseguy
• The Equalizer — Norm Jameson
• Miami Vice — Speed Stiles
• NOVA — Narrator

Appearances as themselves (17)

• 2018Into the Amazon — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2018The Bombing of Wall Street — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2018The Gilded Age — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2017Rachel Carson — Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Great War — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2016The Perfect Crime: Leopold & Loeb — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2015American Comandante — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2015Klansville U.S.A. — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2015The Big Burn — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2015The Pilgrims — Self - Narrator (voice)
• JFK — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2013Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2013Love, Marilyn — Self
• 20102012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic — Self
• 2010The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self