David Platt (director)

David Platt
Occupation(s)Television director, producer, former sound engineer and actor
Years active1980–present

David Platt is an 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".[1][2] 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.[3]

  1. ^ David Platt (director); David Simon (story and teleplay), Ed Burns (story) (2004-10-08). "Alliances". The Wire. Season 4. Episode 05. HBO.
  2. ^ "Episode guide - episode 42 Alliances". HBO. 2006. Retrieved 2006-10-09.
  3. ^ Jim King (2003). "3rd Exclusive David Simon interview". The Wire at AOL. Retrieved 2007-11-05. Page 5