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Edward Platt

Highest Rated:
100% North by Northwest (1959)
Lowest Rated:
75% Designing Woman (1957)
Birthday:
Feb 14, 1916
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
American character actor Edward Platt is best remembered as the eternally exasperated Chief on the Get Smart series. Before making his screen debut in the mid-'50s, he worked as a singer for a band. In feature films, he was typically cast as generals and bosses. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 75% - 100%
Number of Movies: 30
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
1963 Black Zoo
  • Detective Rivers
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1963 Johnny Shiloh
  • General Thomas
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1963 A Ticklish Affair
  • Capt. Haven Hitchcock
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1962 95% Cape Fear
  • Judge
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1961 The Explosive Generation
  • Mr. Morton
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1961 Atlantis, the Lost Continent
  • Azor
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1960 Cash McCall
  • Harrison Glenn
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1960 83% Pollyanna
  • Ben Tarbell
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1959 100% North by Northwest
  • Victor Larrabee
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1959 The Rebel Set (Beatsville)
  • Mr. Tucker
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1959 They Came to Cordura
  • Col. DeRose
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1959 Inside the Mafia
  • Dan Regent
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1958 Gunman's Walk
  • Purcell Avery
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1958 The Gift of Love
  • Dr. Miller
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1957 The Helen Morgan Story (Why was I born?)
  • Haggerty
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1957 Omar Khayyam
  • Jayhan
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1957 Tattered Dress
  • Ralph Adams
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1957 75% Designing Woman
  • Martin J. Daylor
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1956 Storm Center
  • Rev. Wilson
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1956 Rock, Pretty Baby
  • Thomas Daley Sr.
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1956 The Proud Ones
  • Dr. Barlow
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1956 Serenade
  • Carter
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1956 Backlash
  • Sheriff Marson
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1956 The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
  • Major Dunning
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1956 Reprisal!
  • Neil Shipley
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1956 81% Written on the Wind
  • Dr. Paul Cochrane
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1955 The Private War of Major Benson
  • Monsignor Collins
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1955 95% Rebel Without a Cause
  • Ray
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1955 Sincerely Yours
  • Dr. Eubank
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1955 Illegal
  • Ralph Ford
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Quotes from Edward Platt's Characters

    1. Mrs. Amelia Tarbell: [Ben opens the car door] I am not going to budge.
    2. Ben Tarbell: [looks over his shoulder] I have had just about enough of your nonsense! You're going to join in with the others and make this into a town, not a dynasty. Get down out of that car, Amelia, I'm warning you! Move! [She gets out of the car]
    From Pollyanna. Submitted by Nhia T (19 days ago)
    1. Ben Tarbell: [looks at the horse and it whinnies] Exactly.
    From Pollyanna. Submitted by Nhia T (19 days ago)
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