David Platt (director)

David Platt
Occupation	Television director, producer, former sound engineer and actor
Years active	1980-Present

David Platt is a thrice Emmy-nominated^[1] American film and television director. He has directed many episodes of Law & Order and its spin-off Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as well as an episode of The Wire. For The Wire Platt directed the fifth episode of the fourth season, "Alliances".^[2][3] Show runner David Simon praised Platt's deft touch with the young actors and the scene where the boys discover a corpse in a vacant house. He has a house in Pennsylvania, and is friends with independent filmmaker/producer Carlton J. Albright^[4]

Filmography

• House
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• The Wire
  • Episode 4.05 "Alliances" (2006)^[2][3]
• Law & Order
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury
• Queens Supreme (2003)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• Hack (2002)
• Judging Amy
• The Education of Max Bickford (2001)
• The Agency (2001)
• Deadline (2000)

References

1. ^ "Awards for David Platt (III)". IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0686853/awards. Retrieved 2008-07-22. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Alliances". David Platt, Writ. David Simon (story and teleplay), Ed Burns (story). The Wire. HBO. 2004-10-08. No. 05, season 4.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Episode guide - episode 42 Alliances". HBO. 2006. http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/season4/episode05.shtml. Retrieved 2006-10-09. 
4. ^ Jim King (2003). "3rd Exclusive David Simon interview". The Wire at AOL. http://members.aol.com/TheWireHBO/exclusive4-5.html. Retrieved 2007-11-05.  Page 5

External links

• David Platt at the Internet Movie Database

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