Edward Platt

Acting · Born 1916-02-14 in Staten Island, New York, USA

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 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…

Filmography

• North by Northwest as Victor Larrabee
• Rebel Without a Cause as Ray Fremick
• Cape Fear as Judge
• Pollyanna as Ben Tarbell
• Written on the Wind as Dr. Paul Cochrane
• Black Zoo as Chief Rivers
• Designing Woman as Martin J. Daylor
• Atlantis: The Lost Continent as Azor the High Priest
• Cult of the Cobra as Lamian Threatening Death (uncredited)
• Gunman's Walk as Purcell Avery

TV

• Perry Mason as Cmdr. Driscoll
• Get Smart as Thaddeus
• The Twilight Zone as Doctor
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Mr. Henshaw
• The Outer Limits as Dean Radcliffe
• The Outer Limits as Mr. Terrence
• The Outer Limits as David Hunt (as Edward C. Platt)
• Perry Mason as Tom Stratton
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Morgan
• 77 Sunset Strip