Oliver Platt

Oliver Platt

1960-01-12 Windsor, Ontario, Canada 90 Credits

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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 (200...

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Emperor

Emperor

2026

as The Pope Clement VII

Acting

XVI Century. Action epic about young Johanna "Of Ghent", who seeks revenge on the holy Roman Emperor Charles V for the death of her father. It happens...

Babes

Babes

2024

as Bernie

6.1
Acting

After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and be...

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

2020

as The Voice (voice)

6.6
Acting

Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.

The Cleanse

The Cleanse

2018

as Ken Roberts

5.1
Acting

The story of a heartbroken man who attends a spiritual retreat, only to discover that the course releases more than everyday toxins and traumatic expe...

The Bombing of Wall Street

The Bombing of Wall Street

2018

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.5
Acting

On September 16, 1920, as hundreds of Wall Street workers headed out for lunch, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in front of Morgan Ba...

The Gilded Age

The Gilded Age

2018

as Self - Narrator (voice)

8.0
Acting

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the s...

Into the Amazon

Into the Amazon

2018

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.8
Acting

A documentary re-telling of the remarkable and dangerous journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon...

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

2017

as M.C. Gaines

7.2
Acting

The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and co-created Wo...

The Great War

The Great War

2017

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.0
Acting

Drawing on unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story of World War I through the voices of nurses, journ...

Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson

2017

as Self - Narrator (voice)

8.5
Acting

An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world. When 'Silent Spring' was published ...

Rules Don't Apply

Rules Don't Apply

2016

as Forester

5.7
Acting

It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Ang...

Shut In

Shut In

2016

as Dr. Wilson

5.3
Acting

A widowed child psychologist lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. When caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue ...

The Ticket

The Ticket

2016

as Bob

5.6
Acting

A blind man who regains his vision finds himself becoming metaphorically blinded by his obsession for the superficial.

The 9th Life of Louis Drax

The 9th Life of Louis Drax

2016

as Dr. Perez

6.4
Acting

A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of ...

One More Time

One More Time

2016

as Alan

5.1
Acting

Beautiful aspiring rock star Jude is stuck in a rut - relegated to recording commercial jingles and lost in a series of one night stands. When she is ...

The Perfect Crime: Leopold & Loeb

The Perfect Crime: Leopold & Loeb

2016

as Self - Narrator (voice)

4.7
Acting

The shocking story of Richard Leopold and Nathan Loeb, two wealthy college students who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 1924 to prove they were smart en...

The Pilgrims

The Pilgrims

2015

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.7
Acting

Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journey west across the Atlantic in the early 17th cent...

American Comandante

American Comandante

2015

as Self - Narrator (voice)

8.0
Acting

U.S. citizen William Morgan rises to power in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution.

Frank and Cindy

Frank and Cindy

2015

as Frank Garcia

5.5
Acting

G.J. Echternkamp tells the story of his relationship with his parents, his mother Cindy and his step-father, Frank. Frank used to be a member of OXO, ...

Bessie

Bessie

2015

as Carl Van Vechten

6.4
Acting

The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.

The Big Burn

The Big Burn

2015

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.5
Acting

The dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910.

Klansville U.S.A.

Klansville U.S.A.

2015

as Self - Narrator (voice)

6.8
Acting

Investigates the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the cou...

Sofia the First: The Curse of Princess Ivy

Sofia the First: The Curse of Princess Ivy

2014

as Everburn (voice)

8.5
Acting

The revelation of a spellbinding secret sets in motion the most thrilling adventure in the history of SOFIA THE FIRST! After learning that the Amulet ...

A Merry Friggin' Christmas

A Merry Friggin' Christmas

2014

as Hobo Santa

5.4
Acting

Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hi...

Kill the Messenger

Kill the Messenger

2014

as Jerry Ceppos

6.6
Acting

A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra reb...

Cut Bank

Cut Bank

2014

as Joe Barrett

5.7
Acting

25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But hi...

Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

2014

as Wiser the Owl (voice)

6.3
Acting

Dorothy wakes in post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends, the Scarecrow, the Lion, the Tin Man, and Glinda, ...

Chef

Chef

2014

as Ramsey Michel

7.1
Acting

When Chef Carl Casper suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its control...

1964

1964

2014

as Narrator (voice)

6.4
Acting

1964 was the year the Beatles came to America, Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, and three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi. It was t...

Gods Behaving Badly

Gods Behaving Badly

2013

as Apollo

2.5
Acting

Greek gods living in modern-day New York intervene in the lives of a young couple.

JFK

JFK

2013

as Narrator (voice)

10.0
Acting

Forever enshrined in myth by an assassin's bullet, Kennedy's presidency long defied objective appraisal. Recent assessments have revealed an administr...

Lucky Them

Lucky Them

2013

as Giles

6.1
Acting

More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to ...

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

2013

as Narrator (voice)

6.6
Acting

Revisits President John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy through 21 of the more than 800,000 condolence letters written to Jackie Kennedy after JFK's ...

Love, Marilyn

Love, Marilyn

2013

as Self

6.6
Acting

Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote ...

Henry Ford

Henry Ford

2013

as Narrator (voice)

8.4
Acting

HENRY FORD paints a fascinating portrait of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century.

Chinese Zodiac

Chinese Zodiac

2012

as Lawrence Morgan

6.2
Acting

Asian Hawk leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the bronze heads of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals whic...

Ginger & Rosa

Ginger & Rosa

2012

as Mark Two

6.1
Acting

A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and th...

The Oranges

The Oranges

2011

as Terry Ostroff

5.5
Acting

A man's affair with his friend's much-younger daughter throws two neighboring families into turmoil.

X-Men: First Class

X-Men: First Class

2011

as Man in Black Suit

7.3
Acting

Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. B...

Love & Other Drugs

Love & Other Drugs

2010

as Bruce Winston

7.0
Acting

Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly inf...

Letters to Juliet

Letters to Juliet

2010

as New Yorker Magazine Editor Bobby (uncredited)

7.0
Acting

An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona cour...

Please Give

Please Give

2010

as Alex

6.2
Acting

In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

2010

as Self

7.0
Acting

This documentary features the 2012 film's cast and crew praising the work, vision, and style of the famed Disaster movie director (i.e. Roland Emmeric...

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

2010

as Self

7.8
Acting

A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the project.

2012

2012

2009

as Carl Anheuser

5.9
Acting

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns t...

Year One

Year One

2009

as High Priest

5.0
Acting

When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.

Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman

2009

as Hades (voice)

7.2
Acting

On the mystical island of Themyscira, a proud and fierce warrior race of Amazons have raised a daughter of untold beauty, grace and strength: Princess...

Frost/Nixon

Frost/Nixon

2008

as Bob Zelnick

7.3
Acting

For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit...

Martian Child

Martian Child

2007

as Jeff

6.7
Acting

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's ...

The Ten

The Ten

2007

as Marc Jacobson

4.8
Acting

Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.

The Thick Of It

The Thick Of It

2007

as Malcolm Tucker

Acting

A put-upon member of Congress is harassed by inept politicians. Based on the BBC series, "The Thick of It."

Casanova

Casanova

2005

as Paprizzio

6.5
Acting

With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a notorious womanizer discovers a beauty who seems imp...

The Ice Harvest

The Ice Harvest

2005

as Pete Van Heuten

5.9
Acting

A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have diff...

Loverboy

Loverboy

2005

as M. Pomeroy

4.9
Acting

A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.

Kinsey

Kinsey

2004

as Herman Wells

6.6
Acting

Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endea...

Pieces of April

Pieces of April

2003

as Jim Burns

6.5
Acting

Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But w...

Hope Springs

Hope Springs

2003

as Doug Reed

5.3
Acting

British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America a...

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday

2002

as Moran

5.5
Acting

In early 1980s Manhattan, a pair of Irish-American brothers become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.

Zig Zag

Zig Zag

2002

as Mr. Walters / 'The Toad'

5.8
Acting

An autistic 15-year-old boy steals money from his boss to provide rent for his abusive father, who uses the money to repay a loan shark.

Liberty Stands Still

Liberty Stands Still

2002

as Victor Wallace

5.3
Acting

As the heir and current marketing director for one of the nation's biggest gun manufacturers, Liberty Wallace is indifferent to the atrocities made po...

Don't Say a Word

Don't Say a Word

2001

as Dr. Louis Sachs

6.2
Acting

When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he is horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a young woman, su...

Ready to Rumble

Ready to Rumble

2000

as Jimmy King

5.2
Acting

Two slacker wrestling fans are devastated by the ousting of their favorite character by an unscrupulous promoter.

Gun Shy

Gun Shy

2000

as Fulvio Nesstra

5.2
Acting

Legendary undercover DEA agent Charlie Mayough has suddenly lost his nerves of steel. On the verge of a career-induced mental breakdown, and in comple...

Bicentennial Man

Bicentennial Man

1999

as Rupert Burns

7.3
Acting

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the ...

Three to Tango

Three to Tango

1999

as Peter Steinberg

5.7
Acting

Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistake...

Lake Placid

Lake Placid

1999

as Hector Cyr

5.9
Acting

When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix...

CinderElmo

CinderElmo

1999

as Frank / Fairy Godperson

6.0
Acting

Our favorite little red monster is the star of this delightful film that playfully skews the story of Cinderella. Originally aired on Fox television i...

The Impostors

The Impostors

1998

as Maurice

5.8
Acting

Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find themselves pursued by the law aboard a cruise ship.

Simon Birch

Simon Birch

1998

as Ben Goodrich

6.8
Acting

Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his father, and his mother, Rebecca, is keeping her l...

Doctor Dolittle

Doctor Dolittle

1998

as Dr. Mark Weller

5.7
Acting

A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a chi...

Bulworth

Bulworth

1998

as Dennis Murphy

6.3
Acting

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecti...

Dangerous Beauty

Dangerous Beauty

1998

as Maffio Venier

7.1
Acting

Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of que...

Big Night

Big Night

1996

Associate Producer

7.0
Producing

Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.

A Time to Kill

A Time to Kill

1996

as Harry Rex Vonner

7.4
Acting

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

Executive Decision

Executive Decision

1996

as Cahill

6.3
Acting

Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) s...

Funny Bones

Funny Bones

1995

as Tommy Fawkes

6.5
Acting

Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—start...

The Infiltrator

The Infiltrator

1995

as Yaron Svoray

5.9
Acting

In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction intent on bri...

Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure

Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure

1995

as Paul Bunyan

6.2
Acting

A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to ste...

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

1993

as Porthos

6.4
Acting

D'Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French king's elite bodyguards, only to discover that the corps has been disbande...

Benny & Joon

Benny & Joon

1993

as Eric

7.0
Acting

A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

Indecent Proposal

Indecent Proposal

1993

as Jeremy

6.4
Acting

John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife.

The Temp

The Temp

1993

as Jack Hartsell

4.6
Acting

A series of mysterious accidents at a food company lead a manager to suspect his impressive new temporary secretary.

Diggstown

Diggstown

1992

as Fitz

6.3
Acting

Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns most of Diggstown, a boxing-mad town. The bet is t...

Beethoven

Beethoven

1992

as Harvey

5.8
Acting

The Newton family live in their comfortable home, but there seems to something missing. This "hole" is filled by a small puppy, who walks into their h...

Postcards from the Edge

Postcards from the Edge

1990

as Neil Bleene

6.6
Acting

Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continu...

Flatliners

Flatliners

1990

as Randy Steckle

6.5
Acting

Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, a...

Working Girl

Working Girl

1988

as Lutz

6.6
Acting

Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg ski...

Married to the Mob

Married to the Mob

1988

as Ed Benitez

6.0
Acting

Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affa...

Crusoe

Crusoe

1988

as Mr. Newby

5.8
Acting

Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to lea...

Jake and Amir: Fired

Jake and Amir: Fired

N/A

as Interviewer

Acting

When a new CEO arrives at CollegeHumour, he makes Jake an offer he can't refuse: fire Amir and get a promotion, but Jake soon realizes life without Am...