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as Cutler

1975
A Woman for All Men

as Barney

1975
Mame

as Mr. Upson

1974
The Morning After

as Rudy King

1974
Murder or Mercy

as Henry Balin

1974
40 Carats

as Mr. Latham

1973
The Norliss Tapes

as Sanford T. Evans

1973
The Candidate

as Senator Crocker Jarmon

1972
Live a Little, Love a Little

as Mike Lansdown

1968
Gidget

as Professor Russell Lawrence

1965
Bachelor in Paradise

as Thomas W. Jynson

1961
The Ann Sothern Show

as James Devery

1958
The Turning Point

as Joe Silbray

1952
The Savage

as Running Dog

1952
Cripple Creek

as Denver Jones

1952
Because You're Mine

as Captain Burton Nordell Loring

1952
711 Ocean Drive

as Larry Mason

1950
My Friend Irma Goes West

as Mr. Brent

1950
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

as Myron Brynk

1950
Danger Woman

as Professor Claude Ruppert

1946
Cuban Pete

as Roberts

1946
Who Done It?

as

1942
Night Monster

as Dick Baldwin

1942
Eyes of the Underworld

as Edward Jason

1942
Top Sergeant

as Al Bennett

1942
Don Porter Don Porter

Birthday

1912-09-24

Place of Birth

Miami, Oklahoma, USA

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.
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