Don Porter
Skådespelare, Regissör
24 september 1912 — 11 februari 1997 (84 år)
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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Filmography
| 1987 | CBS Summer Playhouse · as Charles Porter |
| 1986 | Matlock · as Erskine Tate |
| 1983 | |
| 1980 | The Ghosts of Buxley Hall · as Judge Oliver Haynes |
| 1980 | The Last Song · as Philip Brockhurst |
| 1979 | Turnabout · as Ed |
| 1978 | Sword of Justice · as Judge Addams |
| 1978 | |
| 1978 | |
| 1978 | Dallas · as Matt Devlin |
| 1978 | The President's Mistress · as CraigPå Plex |
| 1977 | Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. · as Caufield |
| 1977 | The Love Boat · as Slade Summerhill |
| 1977 | Fantasy Island · as Emmett Latham |
| 1976 | |
| 1976 | |
| 1976 | |
| 1975 | Phyllis · as Jack |
| 1975 | A Woman for All Men · as Barney |
| 1975 | White Line Fever · as Cutler |
| 1975 | |
| 1975 | Switch · as Paul Lorimer |
| 1975 | The Legend of Lizzie Borden · as George Robinson |
| 1975 | |
| 1974 | Happy Anniversary and Goodbye · as Ed 'mad Dog' Murphy |
| 1974 | Mame · as Mr. Upson |
| 1974 | The Morning After · as Rudy King |
| 1974 | The Six Million Dollar Man · as Dr. Stanley Bacon |
| 1973 | 40 Carats · as Mr. Latham |
| 1973 | The New Perry Mason · as Otis Temple |
| 1973 | Chase · as Miller |
| 1973 | The Norliss Tapes · as Sanford T. EvansPå Plex |
| 1973 | Tenafly · as Miles |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones · as Jeremy Markham |
| 1972 | The ABC Afternoon Playbreak · as George Owens |
| 1972 | The Candidate · as Senator Crocker Jarmon |
| 1972 | Banacek · as Arnold Leeland |
| 1972 | |
| 1971 | Cade's County · as Martin Russell |
| 1971 | McMillan and Wife · as Adrian Danzinger |
| 1969 | |
| 1968 | Live a Little, Love a Little · as Mike Lansdown |
| 1968 | |
| 1968 | Here's Lucy · as Ken Richards |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O · as Jonathan Cavel |
| 1967 | |
| 1966 | Love On A Rooftop · as Narrator |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. · as Mason Hammond |
| 1965 | |
| 1965 | Gidget · as Professor Russell Lawrence |
| 1964 | Youngblood Hawke · as Ferdie Lax |
| 1963 | Gidget Goes to Rome · as Russell Lawrence |
| 1963 | Vacation Playhouse · as Battersea, The Housekeeper |
| 1961 | Bachelor in Paradise · as Thomas W. Jynson |
| 1960 | Insight · as Jim Hinds |
| 1958 | The Ann Sothern Show · as James Devery |
| 1957 | Desk Set · as Don The Elevator Operator (uncredited) |
| 1956 | Our Miss Brooks · as Lawrence Nolan |
| 1955 | Matinee Theater · as Cast |
| 1954 | Disneyland · as Judge Oliver Haynes |
| 1953 | |
| 1952 | The Turning Point · as Joe Silbray |
| 1952 | Because You're Mine · as Captain Burton Nordell Loring |
| 1952 | The Savage · as Running Dog |
| 1952 | Cripple Creek · as Denver Jones |
| 1951 | The Racket · as R. G. Connolly |
| 1950 | Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone · as Myron Brynk |
| 1950 | 711 Ocean Drive · as Larry Mason |
| 1950 | My Friend Irma Goes West · as Mr. Brent |
| 1947 | Buck Privates Come Home · as Capt. Christie |
| 1946 | Danger Woman · as Professor Claude Ruppert |
| 1946 | Cuban Pete · as Roberts |
| 1946 | She-Wolf of London · as Barry Lanfield |
| 1944 | Resisting Enemy Interrogation · as Lt. Frank L. Williams, Jr. - American Co-Pilot |
| 1943 | Keep 'Em Slugging · as Jerry |
| 1942 | Madame Spy · as David Bannister |
| 1942 | Who Done It? · as 'murder At Midnight' Program Manager |
| 1942 | Night Monster · as Dick Baldwin |
| 1942 | Eyes of the Underworld · as Edward Jason |
| 1942 | Eagle Squadron · as Ramsey |
| 1939 | Mystery of the White Room · as Dr. Donald Fox |
| 1965 |
| 1960 | Here's Hollywood · as Self |