Edward Platt
Birthday
1916/02/14
Day of death
1974/03/19 (58 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Staten Island, New York, USA
Also know as
Ed Platt, Edward C. Platt, Edward Cuthbert Platt
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...Read more
Acting
(1959) North by Northwest
as Victor Larrabee
(1955) Rebel Without a Cause
as Ray Fremick
(1962) Cape Fear
as Judge
(1960) Pollyanna
as Ben Tarbell
(1963) Black Zoo
as Chief Rivers
(1957) Designing Woman
as Martin J. Daylor
(1972) The Female Instinct
as Julius Nero
(1961) Atlantis: The Lost Continent
as Azor the High Priest
(1955) Cult of the Cobra
as Lamian Threatening Death (uncredited)
(1958) Gunman's Walk
as Purcell Avery
(1956) Backlash
as Sheriff J.C. Marson
(1956) Storm Center
as Rev. Wilson
(1957) House of Numbers
as The Warden
(1955) Illegal
as Ralph Ford
(1956) Written on the Wind
as Dr. Paul Cochrane
(1956) The Steel Jungle
as Judge Wahller
(1965) The Further Adventures of Gallegher
as The Judge
(1956) The Unguarded Moment
as Attorney Briggs (as Edward C. Platt)
(1957) The Tattered Dress
as Ralph Adams, Reporter (as Edward C. Platt)
(1959) Inside the Mafia
as Dan Regent
(1958) Damn Citizen
as Joseph Kosta (as Edward C. Platt)
(1959) The Rebel Set
as Mr. Tucker / Mr. T
(1957) The Helen Morgan Story
as Johnny Haggerty
(1964) Bullet for a Badman
as Tucker
(1958) The Last of the Fast Guns
as Sam Grypton
(1956) Reprisal!
as Neil Shipley
(1958) The High Cost of Loving
as Eli Cave
(1956) Rock, Pretty Baby
as Thomas Daley Sr.
(1958) Summer Love
as Dr. Thomas Daley
(1957) Omar Khayyam
as Jayhan
(1955) The Shrike
as Harry Downs (as Edward C. Platt)
(1956) The Great Man
as Dr. O'Conner (as Edward C. Platt)
(1961) Who Killed Julie Greer?
as Joe Nolan
(1963) A Ticklish Affair
as Captain Haven Hitchcock
(1959) Destination Space
as Dr. Easton (as Edward C. Platt)
(1960) Cash McCall
as Harrison Glenn
(1967) Get Smart: A Man Called Smart
as Chief
(1949) I Was a Male War Bride
as Lieutenant in Gates' Office (uncredited)
(1959) They Came to Cordura
as Col. DeRose
(1956) Serenade
as Everett Carter
(1957) Oregon Passage
as Roland Dane
(1961) The Explosive Generation
as Mr. Morton
(1956) The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
as Major Dunning - Psychiatrist
(1965) Johnny Shiloh
as Gen. Thomas
(1958) The Gift of Love
as Dr. Jim Miller
(1955) Sincerely Yours
as Dr. Eubank (uncredited)
(1961) The Fiercest Heart
as Madrigo
(1956) The Proud Ones
as Dr. Barlow
(1958) 77 Sunset Strip
as ---
(1963) Burke's Law
as Capt. Frank Metcalfe
(1957) Trackdown
as ---
(1970) The Odd Couple
as Bill Donnelly
(1963) Petticoat Junction
as General Patterson
(1960) Surfside 6
as ---
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Mr. Burgess
(1957) Perry Mason
as Cmdr. Driscoll
(1962) Saints and Sinners
as Dr. Gates
(1965) Get Smart
as Thaddeus
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Doctor
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mr. Henshaw
(1958) Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as ---
(1959) The Lawless Years
as ---
(1959) Rawhide
as ---
(1972) Temperatures Rising
as Senator Bradley
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as ---
(1968) Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self
(1962) The Virginian
as Stuart Brynmar
(1960) Thriller
as James Weeks
(1958) Peter Gunn
as ---
(1956) West Point
as ---
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Sparks
(1959) One Step Beyond
as Will Denning
(1958) Bronco
as ---
(1958) The Rifleman
as ---
(1958) Bat Masterson
as Roy Evens
(1956) Wire Service
as Palmer
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as Dr. Banner
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sheriff Galt
(1957) Alcoa Theatre
as Lieutenant
(1962) General Electric True
as ---
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Tom Paulson
(1963) The Outer Limits
as Dean Radcliffe
(1953) Letter to Loretta
as Henry
(1963) Arrest and Trial
as Judge Kenneth W. Browne
(1957) Wagon Train
as Spinoza de Costa
(1963) Arrest and Trial
as Judge Phillips
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as Judge (uncredited)
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as Lease Harris
(1963) Arrest and Trial
as Judge
(1953) Letter to Loretta
as Sutter
(1963) The Outer Limits
as Mr. Terrence
(1963) The Outer Limits
as David Hunt (as Edward C. Platt)
(1963) Temple Houston
as ---
(1952) Cavalcade of America
as ---
(1961) The Dick Van Dyke Show
as Lou Gregory
(1963) Arrest and Trial
as Superior Court Judge
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Marshall Mays
(1952) Four Star Playhouse
as Freddie
(1952) Four Star Playhouse
as Chief of Police
(1952) Four Star Playhouse
as Dr. Fain
(1957) Perry Mason
as Tom Stratton
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as General Thomas
(1959) Bonanza
as Harvey Buford
(1971) Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
as Caldwell
(1959) Bonanza
as Wade Colly
(1964) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Morgan
(1958) 77 Sunset Strip
as Mr. Jacobin
(1959) The Deputy
as Noah Harper
(1959) Rawhide
as Jason Clark
(1953) General Electric Theater
as ---
(1969) Love, American Style
as ---
(1954) Studio 57
as ---
(1956) State Trooper
as Stanley Andrews
(1956) State Trooper
as John Wilbur Mason
(1957) Wagon Train
as Cyrus Bolton
(1957) Trackdown
as Adam Madson
(1957) Trackdown
as George Mason
(1959) Bonanza
as Will Flanders
(1959) Hawaiian Eye
as Dr. Wallace Oliver
(1959) Mr. Lucky
as Henry Praiswater