Edward Platt
Actor
Born February 14, 1916 in Staten Island, New York, USA
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 a year later to study at the Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati after his thoughts turned to a possible operatic career. He later was accepted into Juilliard. Instead of opera, however, Ed first became a band vocalist with Paul Whiteman and Orchestra. He then sang bass as part of the Mozart Opera Company in New York. With the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company in 1942, he appeared in the operettas "The Mikado," "The Gondoliers" and "The Pirates of Penzance".
Filmography
The Female Instinct
Julius Nero
Temperatures Rising
Senator Bradley
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Caldwell
The Odd Couple
Bill Donnelly
Love, American Style
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (uncredited)
Get Smart: A Man Called Smart
Chief
Johnny Shiloh
Gen. Thomas
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
The Judge
Get Smart
Thaddeus
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Morgan
Bullet for a Badman
Tucker
Petticoat Junction
General Patterson
Burke's Law
Capt. Frank Metcalfe
Temple Houston
The Outer Limits
Dean Radcliffe
Arrest and Trial
Judge Kenneth W. Browne
A Ticklish Affair
Captain Haven Hitchcock
Black Zoo
Chief Rivers
General Electric True
The Virginian
Stuart Brynmar
Saints and Sinners
Dr. Gates
Cape Fear
Judge
The Explosive Generation
Mr. Morton
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Lou Gregory
Dr. Kildare
Dr. Tom Paulson
Who Killed Julie Greer?
Joe Nolan
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
Azor the High Priest
Surfside 6
Thriller
James Weeks
Pollyanna
Ben Tarbell
Cash McCall
Harrison Glenn
Mr. Lucky
Henry Praiswater
Hawaiian Eye
Dr. Wallace Oliver
The Twilight Zone
Doctor
Bonanza
Harvey Buford
The Deputy
Noah Harper
Inside the Mafia
Dan Regent
North by Northwest
Victor Larrabee
The Rebel Set
Mr. Tucker / Mr. T
They Came to Cordura
Col. DeRose
The Lawless Years
One Step Beyond
Will Denning
Rawhide
Destination Space
Dr. Easton
77 Sunset Strip
Bat Masterson
Roy Evens
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
The Rifleman
Bronco
Peter Gunn
Gunman's Walk
Purcell Avery
The Last of the Fast Guns
Sam Grypton
The High Cost of Loving
Eli Cave
Summer Love
Dr. Thomas Daley
Damn Citizen
Joseph Kosta
The Gift of Love
Dr. Jim Miller
Oregon Passage
Roland Dane
Trackdown
The Helen Morgan Story
Johnny Haggerty
Alcoa Theatre
Lieutenant
Perry Mason
Cmdr. Driscoll
Wagon Train
Spinoza de Costa
Have Gun, Will Travel
House of Numbers
The Warden
Omar Khayyam
Jayhan
Designing Woman
Martin J. Daylor
The Tattered Dress
Ralph Adams, Reporter
The Unguarded Moment
Attorney Briggs
Rock, Pretty Baby
Thomas Daley Sr.
The Great Man
Dr. O'Conner
Reprisal!
Neil Shipley
West Point
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Sheriff Galt
Written on the Wind
Dr. Paul Cochrane
Wire Service
Palmer
Storm Center
Rev. Wilson
The Proud Ones
Dr. Barlow
Serenade
Everett Carter
Backlash
Sheriff J.C. Marson
The Steel Jungle
Judge Wahller
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Major Dunning - Psychiatrist
Sincerely Yours
Dr. Eubank (uncredited)
Rebel Without a Cause
Ray Fremick
Illegal
Ralph Ford
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Mr. Henshaw
Gunsmoke
Mr. Burgess
The Shrike
Harry Downs
Cult of the Cobra
Lamian Threatening Death (uncredited)
The Wonderful World of Disney
Judge (uncredited)
Studio 57
Letter to Loretta
Henry
General Electric Theater
Cavalcade of America
Dr. Banner
Four Star Playhouse
Freddie
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Sparks
I Was a Male War Bride
Lieutenant in Gates' Office (uncredited)