David Platt (director)

{{short description|American film and television director|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| name = David Platt

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| occupation = Television director, producer, former sound engineer and actor

| years_active = 1980–present

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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".{{cite episode

| title = Alliances

| episode-link = Alliances (The Wire episode)

| series = The Wire

| series-link = The Wire (TV series)

| credits = David Platt (director); David Simon (story and teleplay), Ed Burns (story)

| network = HBO

| airdate = 2004-10-08

| season = 4

| number = 05

}}{{cite web

| year = 2006

| title = Episode guide - episode 42 Alliances

| publisher = HBO

| access-date = 2006-10-09

| url = http://www.hbo.com/thewire/episode/season4/episode05.shtml

}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://members.aol.com/TheWireHBO/exclusive4-5.html|title=3rd Exclusive David Simon interview|access-date=2007-11-05|publisher=The Wire at AOL|year=2003|author=Jim King}} Page 5