Biography
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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Emperor
2026
as The Pope Clement VII
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
2024
as Bernie
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
2020
as The Voice (voice)
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
2018
as Ken Roberts
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
2018
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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
2018
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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
2018
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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
2017
as M.C. Gaines
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
2017
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Drawing on unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story of World War I through the voices of nurses, journ...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
2017
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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
2016
as Forester
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
2016
as Dr. Wilson
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
2016
as Bob
A blind man who regains his vision finds himself becoming metaphorically blinded by his obsession for the superficial.

The 9th Life of Louis Drax
2016
as Dr. Perez
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
2016
as Alan
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
2016
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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
2015
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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
2015
as Self - Narrator (voice)
U.S. citizen William Morgan rises to power in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution.

Frank and Cindy
2015
as Frank Garcia
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
2015
as Carl Van Vechten
The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.

The Big Burn
2015
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910.

Klansville U.S.A.
2015
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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
2014
as Everburn (voice)
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
2014
as Hobo Santa
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
2014
as Jerry Ceppos
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
2014
as Joe Barrett
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
2014
as Wiser the Owl (voice)
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
2014
as Ramsey Michel
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
2014
as Narrator (voice)
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
2013
as Apollo
Greek gods living in modern-day New York intervene in the lives of a young couple.

JFK
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Forever enshrined in myth by an assassin's bullet, Kennedy's presidency long defied objective appraisal. Recent assessments have revealed an administr...

Lucky Them
2013
as Giles
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
2013
as Narrator (voice)
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
2013
as Self
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
2013
as Narrator (voice)
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
2012
as Lawrence Morgan
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
2012
as Mark Two
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
2011
as Terry Ostroff
A man's affair with his friend's much-younger daughter throws two neighboring families into turmoil.

X-Men: First Class
2011
as Man in Black Suit
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
2010
as Bruce Winston
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
2010
as New Yorker Magazine Editor Bobby (uncredited)
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
2010
as Alex
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
2010
as Self
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
2010
as Self
A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the project.

2012
2009
as Carl Anheuser
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
2009
as High Priest
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
2009
as Hades (voice)
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
2008
as Bob Zelnick
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
2007
as Jeff
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
2007
as Marc Jacobson
Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.

The Thick Of It
2007
as Malcolm Tucker
A put-upon member of Congress is harassed by inept politicians. Based on the BBC series, "The Thick of It."

Casanova
2005
as Paprizzio
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
2005
as Pete Van Heuten
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
2005
as M. Pomeroy
A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.

Kinsey
2004
as Herman Wells
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
2003
as Jim Burns
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
2003
as Doug Reed
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
2002
as Moran
In early 1980s Manhattan, a pair of Irish-American brothers become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.

Zig Zag
2002
as Mr. Walters / 'The Toad'
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
2002
as Victor Wallace
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
2001
as Dr. Louis Sachs
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
2000
as Jimmy King
Two slacker wrestling fans are devastated by the ousting of their favorite character by an unscrupulous promoter.

Gun Shy
2000
as Fulvio Nesstra
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
1999
as Rupert Burns
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
1999
as Peter Steinberg
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
1999
as Hector Cyr
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
1999
as Frank / Fairy Godperson
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
1998
as Maurice
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
1998
as Ben Goodrich
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
1998
as Dr. Mark Weller
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
1998
as Dennis Murphy
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
1998
as Maffio Venier
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
1996
Associate Producer
Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.

A Time to Kill
1996
as Harry Rex Vonner
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
1996
as Cahill
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
1995
as Tommy Fawkes
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
1995
as Yaron Svoray
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
1995
as Paul Bunyan
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
1993
as Porthos
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
1993
as Eric
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

Indecent Proposal
1993
as Jeremy
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
1993
as Jack Hartsell
A series of mysterious accidents at a food company lead a manager to suspect his impressive new temporary secretary.

Diggstown
1992
as Fitz
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
1992
as Harvey
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
1990
as Neil Bleene
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
1990
as Randy Steckle
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
1988
as Lutz
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
1988
as Ed Benitez
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
1988
as Mr. Newby
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
N/A
as Interviewer
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...