Don Porter
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.
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Películas (49)
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
1980 · Judge Oliver Haynes
The Last Song
1980 · Philip Brockhurst
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
1980 · Gen. Rocky Jensen
Interview with Pontius Pilate
1980 · Theodore Michael
Tropic of Desire
1979 · Commodore Phillips
The President's Mistress
1978 · Craig
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
1977 · Caufield
A Woman for All Men
1975 · Barney
White Line Fever
1975 · Cutler
Last Hours Before Morning
1975 · Mr. Pace
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
1975 · George Robinson
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
1974 · Ed Murphy
Murder or Mercy
1974 · Henry Balin
Mame
1974 · Mr. Upson
The Morning After
1974 · Rudy King
40 Carats
1973 · Mr. Latham
The Norliss Tapes
1973 · Sanford T. Evans
The Candidate
1972 · Senator Crocker Jarmon
Live a Little, Love a Little
1968 · Mike Lansdown
Youngblood Hawke
1964 · Ferdie Lax
Gidget Goes to Rome
1963 · Russell Lawrence
Bachelor in Paradise
1961 · Thomas W. Jynson
Desk Set
1957 · Don the Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Our Miss Brooks
1956 · Lawrence Nolan
Because You're Mine
1952 · Captain Burton Nordell Loring
The Savage
1952 · Running Dog
The Turning Point
1952 · Joe Silbray
Cripple Creek
1952 · Denver Jones
The Fallbrook Story
1952 · Narrator
The Racket
1951 · R. G. Connolly
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
1950 · Myron Brynk
711 Ocean Drive
1950 · Larry Mason
My Friend Irma Goes West
1950 · Mr. Brent
Buck Privates Come Home
1947 · Capt. Christie
Wild Beauty
1946 · Dr. Dave Morrow
Danger Woman
1946 · Professor Claude Ruppert
Cuban Pete
1946 · Roberts
She-Wolf of London
1946 · Barry Lanfield
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1944 · Lt. Frank L. Williams, Jr. - American Co-pilot
How to Fly the B-26 Airplane
1944 · Captain Dick
Keep 'Em Slugging
1943 · Jerry
Reconnaissance Pilot
1943 · Camera Instructor
Madame Spy
1942 · David Bannister
Who Done It?
1942 · 'Murder at Midnight' program manager
Night Monster
1942 · Dick Baldwin
Eyes of the Underworld
1942 · Edward Jason
Eagle Squadron
1942 · Ramsey
Top Sergeant
1942 · Al Bennett
Mystery of the White Room
1939 · Dr. Donald Fox
Series (25)
Matlock
1986 · Erskine Tate
Hotel
1982 · Jonathan Corry
Vega$
1978
The Paper Chase
1978
Dallas
1978 · Matt Devlin
Vacaciones en el mar
1977 · Slade Summerhill, George Cowens
Three's Company
1977
City of Angels
1976
The Bionic Woman
1976
Ellery Queen
1975
Switch
1975 · Paul Lorimer, Salvensen
Archer
1975
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974 · Dr. Stanley Bacon
Barnaby Jones
1973 · Jeremy Markham
The Rookies
1972
Love, American Style
1969
Hawaii Five-O
1969 · Jonathan Cavel, Alex Kelsey
The Mod Squad
1968
Here's Lucy
1968 · Ken Richards
Judd, for the Defense
1967
The F.B.I.
1965 · Mason Hammond
Green Acres
1965
Gidget
1965 · Professor Russell Lawrence, Director
Vacation Playhouse
1963 · Battersea, The Housekeeper
Private Secretary
1953