Edward Platt

Actor Feb 14 (died age 58) Staten Island, New York, USA 1949–1973 (24 year career)

6.2 avg rating

Biography

Forever and fondly remembered as Don Adams' foil on the popular Mel Brooks/Buck Henry spy series Get Smart (1965), character actor Ed Platt (also billed as Edward C. Platt) had been around for two decades prior to copping that rare comedy role. Born in Staten Island, New York, on Valentine's Day, 1916, he inherited an appreciation of music on his mother's side. He spent a part of his childhood in Kentucky and in upstate New York where he attended Northwood, a private school in Lake Placid, and w…

Known For

Film

North by Northwest

Victor Larrabee

Film

Rebel Without a Cause

Ray Fremick

Film

Get Smart

Thaddeus

Film

Cape Fear

Judge

Film

Written on the Wind

Dr. Paul Cochrane

Film

Pollyanna

Ben Tarbell

Film

I Was a Male War Bride

Lieutenant in Gates' Office (uncredited)

Film

Designing Woman

Martin J. Daylor

Filmography

Acting (100)

Movies (48)

The Female Instinct

1972

as Julius Nero

Get Smart: A Man Called Smart

1967

as Chief

The Further Adventures of Gallegher

1965

as The Judge

Johnny Shiloh

as Gen. Thomas

Bullet for a Badman

as Tucker

Black Zoo

as Chief Rivers

A Ticklish Affair

as Captain Haven Hitchcock

5.7

Cape Fear

1962

as Judge

7.4

Atlantis: The Lost Continent

1961

as Azor the High Priest

5.2

The Explosive Generation

as Mr. Morton

The Fiercest Heart

as Madrigo

Who Killed Julie Greer?

1961

as Joe Nolan

Pollyanna

as Ben Tarbell

Cash McCall

as Harrison Glenn

North by Northwest

as Victor Larrabee

Destination Space

as Dr. Easton (as Edward C. Platt)

They Came to Cordura

as Col. DeRose

Inside the Mafia

as Dan Regent

The Rebel Set

as Mr. Tucker / Mr. T

The Gift of Love

as Dr. Jim Miller

Gunman's Walk

as Purcell Avery

Damn Citizen

as Joseph Kosta (as Edward C. Platt)

Summer Love

1958

as Dr. Thomas Daley

5.0

The Last of the Fast Guns

1958

as Sam Grypton

5.4

The High Cost of Loving

1958

as Eli Cave

5.7

The Helen Morgan Story

as Johnny Haggerty

Designing Woman

as Martin J. Daylor

Omar Khayyam

as Jayhan

The Tattered Dress

as Ralph Adams, Reporter (as Edward C. Platt)

House of Numbers

as The Warden

Oregon Passage

as Roland Dane

The Great Man

as Dr. O'Conner (as Edward C. Platt)

The Steel Jungle

as Judge Wahller

Serenade

as Everett Carter

The Proud Ones

as Dr. Barlow

Reprisal!

as Neil Shipley

Written on the Wind

as Dr. Paul Cochrane

Backlash

as Sheriff J.C. Marson

Rock, Pretty Baby

as Thomas Daley Sr.

Storm Center

as Rev. Wilson

The Unguarded Moment

as Attorney Briggs (as Edward C. Platt)

6.2

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

1956

as Major Dunning - Psychiatrist

5.5

Rebel Without a Cause

as Ray Fremick

Illegal

as Ralph Ford

Sincerely Yours

as Dr. Eubank (uncredited)

5.8

Cult of the Cobra

1955

as Lamian Threatening Death (uncredited)

6.0

The Shrike

1955

as Harry Downs (as Edward C. Platt)

6.0

I Was a Male War Bride

1949

as Lieutenant in Gates' Office (uncredited)

6.9

Television (52)

The Snoop Sisters

as Julius Nero

Temperatures Rising

as Senator Bradley

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

as Caldwell

The Odd Couple

as Bill Donnelly

Love, American Style

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

as Self (uncredited)

Get Smart

as Thaddeus

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

as Morgan

Petticoat Junction

as General Patterson

The Outer Limits

as Dean Radcliffe

Burke's Law

as Capt. Frank Metcalfe

Arrest and Trial

as Judge

Temple Houston

The Virginian

as Stuart Brynmar

General Electric True

Saints and Sinners

as Dr. Gates

Dr. Kildare

as Dr. Tom Paulson

The Dick Van Dyke Show

as Lou Gregory

Thriller

as James Weeks

Surfside 6

Bonanza

as Harvey Buford

The Twilight Zone

as Doctor

Rawhide

as Jason Clark

One Step Beyond

as Will Denning

Hawaiian Eye

as Dr. Wallace Oliver

Mr. Lucky

as Henry Praiswater

The Deputy

as Noah Harper

The Lawless Years

The Rifleman

Bat Masterson

as Roy Evens

77 Sunset Strip

as Mr. Jacobin

Bronco

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Peter Gunn

Perry Mason

as Cmdr. Driscoll

Have Gun, Will Travel

Wagon Train

as Spinoza de Costa

Trackdown

Alcoa Theatre

as Lieutenant

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Sheriff Galt

State Trooper

as Stanley Andrews

Wire Service

as Palmer

West Point

1956

5.0

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Mr. Henshaw

Gunsmoke

as Mr. Burgess

Studio 57

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954

as Lease Harris

7.8

General Electric Theater

Letter to Loretta

as Henry

Four Star Playhouse

as Freddie

Cavalcade of America

as Dr. Banner

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

as Sparks

7.2