Don Porter
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1912-09-24
Deathday 1997-02-11 (84 years old)
Place of Birth Miami, Oklahoma, USA
Also Known As Donald Porter, Donald Cecil Porter
Don Porter
Biography
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.
Known For
Actor
as Judge Oliver Haynes
as Philip Brockhurst
as Gen. Rocky Jensen
as Theodore Michael
as Commodore Phillips
as Craig
as Matt Devlin
as Caufield
as Slade Summerhill
as Barney
as Cutler
as Mr. Pace
as George Robinson
as Paul Lorimer
as Salvensen
as Ed 'Mad Dog' Murphy
as Henry Balin
as Mr. Upson
as Rudy King
as Dr. Stanley Bacon
as Mr. Latham
as Sanford T. Evans
as Jeremy Markham
as Senator Crocker Jarmon
as Mike Lansdown
as Ken Richards
as Jonathan Cavel
as Alex Kelsey
as Mason Hammond
as Professor Russell Lawrence
as Ferdie Lax
as Russell Lawrence
as Battersea, The Housekeeper
as Thomas W. Jynson
as Don the Elevator Operator (uncredited)
as Lawrence Nolan
as Captain Burton Nordell Loring
as Running Dog
as Joe Silbray
as Denver Jones
as Narrator
as R. G. Connolly
as Myron Brynk
as Larry Mason
as Mr. Brent
as Capt. Christie
as Dr. Dave Morrow
as Professor Claude Ruppert
as Roberts
as Barry Lanfield
as Lt. Frank L. Williams, Jr. - American Co-pilot
as Captain Dick
as Jerry
as Camera Instructor
as David Bannister
as 'Murder at Midnight' program manager
as Dick Baldwin
as Edward Jason
as Ramsey
as Al Bennett
as Dr. Donald Fox
Director
as Director