Oliver Platt

Oliver Platt

Birthday: 1960-01-12

Place of Birth: Windsor, Ontario, Canada

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 (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).

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Pieces of April
Pieces of April

Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment mil...

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Flatliners
Flatliners

Five medical students experiment with "near death" experiences, until the dark consequences of past ...

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A Time to Kill
A Time to Kill

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...

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Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle

A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, un...

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Bicentennial Man
Bicentennial Man

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the ...

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Three to Tango
Three to Tango

Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for t...

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The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers

D'Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French king's elite bodyguards,...

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Executive Decision
Executive Decision

Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader...

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Married to the Mob
Married to the Mob

Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime wo...

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Working Girl
Working Girl

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretend...

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Benny & Joon
Benny & Joon

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

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Indecent Proposal
Indecent Proposal

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

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Kinsey
Kinsey

Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a na...

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Ready to Rumble
Ready to Rumble

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

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Martian Child
Martian Child

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old ...

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Simon Birch
Simon Birch

Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his...

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Hope Springs
Hope Springs

British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraugh...

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Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon

For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steel...

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Dangerous Beauty
Dangerous Beauty

Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, ca...

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Don't Say a Word
Don't Say a Word

When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he is horrified to discover that the abductors' de...

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Bulworth
Bulworth

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportuni...

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Lake Placid
Lake Placid

When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologi...

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Casanova
Casanova

With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a no...

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The Impostors
The Impostors

Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find the...

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Please Give
Please Give

In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who liv...

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Funny Bones
Funny Bones

Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns t...

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2012
2012

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of r...

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Gun Shy
Gun Shy

Legendary undercover DEA agent Charlie Mayough has suddenly lost his nerves of steel. On the verge o...

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Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure
Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure

A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight a...

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CinderElmo
CinderElmo

Our favorite little red monster is the star of this delightful film that playfully skews the story o...

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Love & Other Drugs
Love & Other Drugs

Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets h...

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Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman

On the mystical island of Themyscira, a proud and fierce warrior race of Amazons have raised a daugh...

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The Temp
The Temp

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

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Year One
Year One

When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an...

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The Pilgrims
The Pilgrims

Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journ...

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X-Men: First Class
X-Men: First Class

Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young ...

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Diggstown
Diggstown

Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns ...

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Loverboy
Loverboy

A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of ...

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Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

Dorothy wakes in post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends, ...

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The Oranges
The Oranges

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

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Armour of God 3: Chinese Zodiac
Armour of God 3: Chinese Zodiac

Asian Hawk leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the ...

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Love, Marilyn
Love, Marilyn

Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with parti...

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Ginger & Rosa
Ginger & Rosa

A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960...

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The Infiltrator
The Infiltrator

In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pe...

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Lucky Them
Lucky Them

More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ell...

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Chef
Chef

When Chef Carl Casper suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to...

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Gods Behaving Badly
Gods Behaving Badly

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

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Postcards from the Edge
Postcards from the Edge

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in w...

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Zig Zag
Zig Zag

An autistic 15-year-old boy steals money from his boss to provide rent for his abusive father, who u...

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Babes
Babes

After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and m...

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A Merry Friggin' Christmas
A Merry Friggin' Christmas

Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizi...

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Rules Don't Apply
Rules Don't Apply

It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract...

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The Ice Harvest
The Ice Harvest

A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. Bu...

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Kill the Messenger
Kill the Messenger

A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide af...

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The Cleanse
The Cleanse

The story of a heartbroken man who attends a spiritual retreat, only to discover that the course rel...

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One More Time
One More Time

Beautiful aspiring rock star Jude is stuck in a rut - relegated to recording commercial jingles and ...

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Henry Ford
Henry Ford

HENRY FORD paints a fascinating portrait of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most in...

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The Ticket
The Ticket

A blind man who regains his vision finds himself becoming metaphorically blinded by his obsession fo...

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Bessie
Bessie

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

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Shut In
Shut In

A widowed child psychologist lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. When caught in a d...

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1964
1964

1964 was the year the Beatles came to America, Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, and three civil rig...

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Liberty Stands Still
Liberty Stands Still

As the heir and current marketing director for one of the nation's biggest gun manufacturers, Libert...

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Cut Bank
Cut Bank

25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut...

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JFK
JFK

Forever enshrined in myth by an assassin's bullet, Kennedy's presidency long defied objective apprai...

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Beethoven
Beethoven

The Newton family live in their comfortable home, but there seems to something missing. This "hole" ...

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Klansville U.S.A.
Klansville U.S.A.

Investigates the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, becam...

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Frank and Cindy
Frank and Cindy

G.J. Echternkamp tells the story of his relationship with his parents, his mother Cindy and his step...

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The 9th Life of Louis Drax
The 9th Life of Louis Drax

A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself ...

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Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday

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

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Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

Revisits President John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy through 21 of the more than 800,000 condole...

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Crusoe
Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools...

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The Ten
The Ten

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

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Sofia the First: The Curse of Princess Ivy
Sofia the First: The Curse of Princess Ivy

The revelation of a spellbinding secret sets in motion the most thrilling adventure in the history o...

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The Thick of It
The Thick of It

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

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The Perfect Crime: Leopold & Loeb
The Perfect Crime: Leopold & Loeb

The shocking story of Richard Leopold and Nathan Loeb, two wealthy college students who murdered a 1...

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The Big Burn
The Big Burn

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

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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped inv...

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The Bombing of Wall Street
The Bombing of Wall Street

On September 16, 1920, as hundreds of Wall Street workers headed out for lunch, a horse-drawn cart p...

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Into the Amazon
Into the Amazon

A documentary re-telling of the remarkable and dangerous journey taken by President Theodore Rooseve...

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Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson

An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the ...

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American Comandante
American Comandante

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

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The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, th...

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The Great War
The Great War

Drawing on unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story ...

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2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

This documentary features the 2012 film's cast and crew praising the work, vision, and style of the ...

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The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

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

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Letters to Juliet
Letters to Juliet

An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of ...

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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a r...

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Jake and Amir: Fired
Jake and Amir: Fired

When a new CEO arrives at CollegeHumour, he makes Jake an offer he can't refuse: fire Amir and get a...

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Emperor
Emperor

XVI Century. Action epic about young Johanna "Of Ghent", who seeks revenge on the holy Roman Emperor...

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Sofia The First: The Curse Of Princess Ivy
Sofia The First: The Curse Of Princess Ivy

Princess Ivy has turned the whole kingdom of Enchancia black and white! It's up to Sofia and Amber t...

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