Personal Info
Ed Platt
Edward C. Platt
Edward Cuthbert Platt
Edward Platt
Acting
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 …
Known For
Filmography
Movies
The Female Instinct
as Julius Nero
Get Smart: A Man Called Smart
as Chief
The Further Adventures of Gallegher
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
Cape Fear
as Judge
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
as Azor the High Priest
The Fiercest Heart
as Madrigo
TV Shows
Temperatures Rising
as Senator Bradley · 1 ep.
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
as Caldwell · 1 ep.
The Odd Couple
as Bill Donnelly · 1 ep.
Love, American Style
1 ep.
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self (uncredited) · 1 ep.
CBS Playhouse
as Judge · 1 ep.
Get Smart
as Thaddeus · 138 ep.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Morgan · 1 ep.
Petticoat Junction
as General Patterson · 1 ep.
Burke's Law
as Capt. Frank Metcalfe · 1 ep.
