Don Porter
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Donald "Don" Porter (September 24, 1912 –February 11, 1997) was an American actor who appeared in a number of films since the 1940s, including Top Sergeant and Eagle Squadron. On television, he portrayed the widowed father of 15-year-old Frances "Gidget" Lawrence (Sally Field) in the 1965 ABC sitcom Gidget. Besides his work in film and television, Porter was active on stage, as he acted in more than 200 plays, including The Front Page, Plaza Suite, and Any Wednesday. He appeared in various films in the 1940s before landing the role of Peter Sands, the boss of Susan Camille MacNamara (Ann Sothern), on the 1950s sitcom Private Secretary. A retooled version of the series appeared later, titled The Ann Sothern Show. It featured many of the same actors, including Porter as hotel manager James Devery in the venue of a fashionable New York City hotel. He later guest starred on episodes of Green Acres, Love, American Style, The Mod Squad, Barnaby Jones, The Six Million Dollar Man, Hawaii Five-O, Three's Company (on which he played Jack Tripper's uncle), and Switch.
Known for
Credits
Tropic of Desire (1979)
as Commodore Phillips
Danger Woman (1946)
as Professor Claude Ruppert
40 Carats (1973)
as Mr. Latham
Reconnaissance Pilot (1943)
as Camera Instructor
Mame (1974)
as Mr. Upson
Our Miss Brooks (1956)
as Lawrence Nolan
The Savage (1952)
as Running Dog
My Friend Irma Goes West (1950)
as Mr. Brent
Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
as Capt. Christie
The Racket (1951)
as R. G. Connolly
The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975)
as George Robinson
The Candidate (1972)
as Senator Crocker Jarmon
The Norliss Tapes (1973)
as Sanford T. Evans
White Line Fever (1975)
as Cutler
Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
as Mike Lansdown
Desk Set (1957)
as Don the Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
as Thomas W. Jynson
Youngblood Hawke (1964)
as Ferdie Lax
Because You're Mine (1952)
as Captain Burton Nordell Loring
The Turning Point (1952)
as Joe Silbray
Mystery of the White Room (1939)
as Dr. Donald Fox
She-Wolf of London (1946)
as Barry Lanfield
Night Monster (1942)
as Dick Baldwin
Who Done It? (1942)
as 'Murder at Midnight' program manager
Cripple Creek (1952)
as Denver Jones
A Woman for All Men (1975)
as Barney
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
as Myron Brynk
Eyes of the Underworld (1942)
as Edward Jason
The President's Mistress (1978)
as Craig
711 Ocean Drive (1950)
as Larry Mason
Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944)
as Lt. Frank L. Williams, Jr. - American Co-pilot
Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)
as Russell Lawrence
Eagle Squadron (1942)
as Ramsey
Murder or Mercy (1974)
as Henry Balin
Madame Spy (1942)
as David Bannister
The Morning After (1974)
as Rudy King
Keep 'Em Slugging (1943)
as Jerry
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall (1980)
as Judge Oliver Haynes
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. (1977)
as Caufield
Last Hours Before Morning (1975)
as Mr. Pace
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye (1974)
as Ed Murphy
Cuban Pete (1946)
as Roberts
The Last Song (1980)
as Philip Brockhurst
Interview with Pontius Pilate (1980)
as Theodore Michael
Top Sergeant (1942)
as Al Bennett
How to Fly the B-26 Airplane (1944)
as Captain Dick
The Fallbrook Story (1952)
as Narrator
The Murder That Wouldn't Die (1980)
as Gen. Rocky Jensen
Wild Beauty (1946)
as Dr. Dave Morrow