

Acting
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 was a member of the ski jump team. He majored in romantic languages at Princeton University but left...
Highest rated appearances
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
as The Judge

Inside the Mafia
as Dan Regent

North by Northwest
as Victor Larrabee

The Rebel Set
as Mr. Tucker / Mr. T

They Came to Cordura
as Col. DeRose

Destination Space
as Dr. Easton

Gunman's Walk
as Purcell Avery

The Last of the Fast Guns
as Sam Grypton

The High Cost of Loving
as Eli Cave

Summer Love
as Dr. Thomas Daley

Damn Citizen
as Joseph Kosta

The Gift of Love
as Dr. Jim Miller

Oregon Passage
as Roland Dane

The Helen Morgan Story
as Johnny Haggerty

House of Numbers
as The Warden

Omar Khayyam
as Jayhan

Designing Woman
as Martin J. Daylor

The Tattered Dress
as Ralph Adams, Reporter

The Unguarded Moment
as Attorney Briggs

Rock, Pretty Baby
as Thomas Daley Sr.

The Great Man
as Dr. O'Conner

Reprisal!
as Neil Shipley

Written on the Wind
as Dr. Paul Cochrane

Storm Center
as Rev. Wilson

The Proud Ones
as Dr. Barlow

Serenade
as Everett Carter

Backlash
as Sheriff J.C. Marson

The Steel Jungle
as Judge Wahller

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
as Major Dunning - Psychiatrist

Sincerely Yours
as Dr. Eubank (uncredited)

Rebel Without a Cause
as Ray Fremick

Illegal
as Ralph Ford

The Shrike
as Harry Downs

Cult of the Cobra
as Lamian Threatening Death (uncredited)