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
Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
as Mike Lansdown
Mame (1974)
as Mr. Upson
40 Carats (1973)
as Mr. Latham
The Candidate (1972)
as Senator Crocker Jarmon
Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
as Capt. Christie
Because You're Mine (1952)
as Captain Burton Nordell Loring
The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975)
as George Robinson
Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
as Thomas W. Jynson
Desk Set (1957)
as Don the Elevator Operator (uncredited)
A Woman for All Men (1975)
as Barney
She-Wolf of London (1946)
as Barry Lanfield
Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)
as Russell Lawrence
My Friend Irma Goes West (1950)
as Mr. Brent
The Savage (1952)
as Running Dog
The Racket (1951)
as R. G. Connolly
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall (1980)
as Judge Oliver Haynes
The President's Mistress (1978)
as Craig
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
as Myron Brynk
The Turning Point (1952)
as Joe Silbray
Youngblood Hawke (1964)
as Ferdie Lax
White Line Fever (1975)
as Cutler
Who Done It? (1942)
as 'Murder at Midnight' program manager
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. (1977)
as Caufield
Cripple Creek (1952)
as Denver Jones
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye (1974)
as Ed Murphy
The Morning After (1974)
as Rudy King
Our Miss Brooks (1956)
as Lawrence Nolan
Last Hours Before Morning (1975)
as Mr. Pace
Mystery of the White Room (1939)
as Dr. Donald Fox
Eyes of the Underworld (1942)
as Edward Jason
Danger Woman (1946)
as Professor Claude Ruppert
Night Monster (1942)
as Dick Baldwin
The Murder That Wouldn't Die (1980)
as Gen. Rocky Jensen
Reconnaissance Pilot (1943)
as Camera Instructor
The Norliss Tapes (1973)
as Sanford T. Evans
Murder or Mercy (1974)
as Henry Balin
711 Ocean Drive (1950)
as Larry Mason
How to Fly the B-26 Airplane (1944)
as Captain Dick
The Last Song (1980)
as Philip Brockhurst
Madame Spy (1942)
as David Bannister
Interview with Pontius Pilate (1980)
as Theodore Michael
Eagle Squadron (1942)
as Ramsey
Keep 'Em Slugging (1943)
as Jerry
Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944)
as Lt. Frank L. Williams, Jr. - American Co-pilot
Top Sergeant (1942)
as Al Bennett
Cuban Pete (1946)
as Roberts
The Fallbrook Story (1952)
as Narrator
Wild Beauty (1946)
as Dr. Dave Morrow