Don Porter

Don Porter

Birthday: 1912-09-24

Deathday: 1997-02-11

Place of birth: Miami, Oklahoma, USA

Also known as: Donald Porter, Donald Cecil Porter

imdb_id: nm0692093

Biography:

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.

Played in movies:

Desk Set

Score: 7.0

Who Done It?

Score: 7.0

Tropic of Desire

Score: 6.8

Because You're Mine

Score: 6.7

The President's Mistress

Score: 6.7

The Legend of Lizzie Borden

Score: 6.7

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

Score: 6.6

The Morning After

Score: 6.5

Bachelor in Paradise

Score: 6.5

The Candidate

Score: 6.5

The Ghosts of Buxley Hall

Score: 6.3

The Turning Point

Score: 6.3

711 Ocean Drive

Score: 6.3

Buck Privates Come Home

Score: 6.3

The Racket

Score: 6.3

Mame

Score: 6.2

Night Monster

Score: 6.2

Our Miss Brooks

Score: 6.2

White Line Fever

Score: 6.1

My Friend Irma Goes West

Score: 6.1

The Savage

Score: 6.1

Youngblood Hawke

Score: 6.1

The Last Song

Score: 6.0

40 Carats

Score: 6.0

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

Score: 6.0

Madame Spy

Score: 6.0

Top Sergeant

Score: 6.0

The Norliss Tapes

Score: 6.0

Cripple Creek

Score: 5.7

She-Wolf of London

Score: 5.6

A Woman for All Men

Score: 5.5

Keep 'Em Slugging

Score: 5.5

Live a Little, Love a Little

Score: 5.5

Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.

Score: 5.4

Cuban Pete

Score: 5.0

Happy Anniversary and Goodbye

Score: 4.8

Gidget Goes to Rome

Score: 4.8

Eyes of the Underworld

Score: 4.8

The Murder That Wouldn't Die

Score: 2.0

Last Hours Before Morning

Score: 2.0

The Fallbrook Story

Score: 0.0

How to Fly the B-26 Airplane

Score: 0.0

Reconnaissance Pilot

Score: 0.0

Mystery of the White Room

Score: 0.0

Interview with Pontius Pilate

Score: 0.0

Eagle Squadron

Score: 0.0

Wild Beauty

Score: 0.0

Murder or Mercy

Score: 0.0

Danger Woman

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Three's Company

Score: 7.7

The Paper Chase

Score: 7.6

Archer

Score: 7.5

Judd for the Defense

Score: 7.5

Ellery Queen

Score: 7.4

Green Acres

Score: 7.3

The Six Million Dollar Man

Score: 7.2

Matlock

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

Vega$

Score: 7.0

The Bionic Woman

Score: 7.0

Barnaby Jones

Score: 6.9

Dallas

Score: 6.8

Hotel

Score: 6.8

The Rookies

Score: 6.8

Switch

Score: 6.7

Switch

Score: 6.7

Here's Lucy

Score: 6.7

Gidget

Score: 6.4

The Mod Squad

Score: 6.3

The Love Boat

Score: 6.3

Love, American Style

Score: 6.0

City of Angels

Score: 6.0

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

Private Secretary

Score: 5.0

Vacation Playhouse

Score: 0.0