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Donald Porter, Donald Cecil Porter
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Donald "Don" Porter was an American actor who appeared in a number of films in 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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1912-09-24
- event Death Date 1997-02-11
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 9.1
- info Birth Place Miami, Oklahoma, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Don Porter
6.5
The Candidate
1972-06-29
6.3
The Racket
1951-10-25
6.3
Buck Privates Come Home
1947-04-04
6.1
White Line Fever
1975-07-16
6.3
711 Ocean Drive
1950-07-01
6.3
The Turning Point
1952-07-12
5.6
She-Wolf of London
1946-05-17
6.9
Who Done It?
1942-10-30
6
The Norliss Tapes
1973-02-21
5.5
Live a Little, Love a Little
1968-10-23
6.5
Bachelor in Paradise
1961-11-01
0
Danger Woman
1946-07-12
6.2
Our Miss Brooks
1956-04-24
4.7
Eyes of the Underworld
1942-10-02
6.2
Night Monster
1942-10-20
6.1
Youngblood Hawke
1964-11-04
6.2
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1944-08-01
7
Desk Set
1957-08-02
5.7
Cripple Creek
1952-06-30
6.5
The Morning After
1974-02-13
5
Cuban Pete
1946-06-26
6.1
The Savage
1952-09-01
2
Last Hours Before Morning
1975-04-19
2
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
1980-03-09
6.7
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
1975-02-10
0
Murder or Mercy
1974-04-10
6.2
Mame
1974-03-07
6.3
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
1980-12-21
0
Wild Beauty
1946-08-08
0
Eagle Squadron
1942-06-16
6
Top Sergeant
1942-06-14
7.8
Tropic of Desire
1979-06-15
0
Interview with Pontius Pilate
1980-01-01
6
Madame Spy
1942-12-11
6.7
The President's Mistress
1978-02-10
6
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
1950-12-08
5.5
Keep 'Em Slugging
1943-03-01
6.1
My Friend Irma Goes West
1950-06-25
5.5
A Woman for All Men
1975-08-01
6
40 Carats
1973-06-28
0
Mystery of the White Room
1939-03-17
4.8
Gidget Goes to Rome
1963-08-07
0
Reconnaissance Pilot
1943-01-25
0
How to Fly the B-26 Airplane
1944-03-14
6
The Last Song
1980-10-23
6.7
Because You're Mine
1952-10-01
0
The Fallbrook Story
1952-01-01
5.4
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
1977-12-26
4.8
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
1974-11-19
6.9
The Rookies
1972-09-11
7.3
Green Acres
1965-09-15
7
Here's Lucy
1968-09-23
6.4
Gidget
1965-09-15
5.6
The F.B.I.
1965-09-19
6.3
The Love Boat
1977-09-24
7.2
Matlock
1986-03-03
7
The Bionic Woman
1976-01-14
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
1968-09-20
6.8
Hotel
1982-08-21
6.5
The Mod Squad
1968-09-24
7.8
Three's Company
1977-03-15
6.8
Dallas
1978-04-02
7
Vega$
1978-09-20
6.7
Switch
1975-09-09
6
City of Angels
1976-02-03
7.5
Judd for the Defense
1967-09-08
5
Private Secretary
1953-02-01
7.4
Ellery Queen
1975-09-11
7.5
The Paper Chase
1978-09-09
0
Vacation Playhouse
1963-07-22
7.5
Archer
1975-01-30
6
Love, American Style
1969-09-29
7.2
The Six Million Dollar Man
1974-01-18
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
1968-09-20
6.7
Switch
1975-09-09
7
Barnaby Jones
1973-01-28