Don Porter
Born in Miami, Oklahoma, USA — Sep 24 1912• Died Feb 11 1997
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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, th…
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Dallas
Matt Devlin
The Love Boat
Slade Summerhill
Hawaii Five-O
Jonathan Cavel
Love, American Style
The Six Million Dollar Man
Dr. Stanley Bacon
Matlock
Erskine Tate
Hotel
The F.B.I.
Mason Hammond
Three's Company
Here's Lucy
Ken Richards
The Rookies
Green Acres
Barnaby Jones
Jeremy Markham
Switch
Paul Lorimer
Vega$
The Mod Squad
The Bionic Woman
Judd for the Defense
Ellery Queen
Gidget
Professor Russell Lawrence
The Paper Chase
40 Carats
Mr. Latham
City of Angels
Vacation Playhouse
Battersea, The Housekeeper
Private Secretary
Tropic of Desire
Commodore Phillips
Archer
Mame
Mr. Upson
The Candidate
Senator Crocker Jarmon
The Last Song
Philip Brockhurst
Bachelor in Paradise
Thomas W. Jynson
Keep 'Em Slugging
Jerry
Night Monster
Dick Baldwin
Desk Set
Don the Elevator Operator (uncredited)
The Racket
R. G. Connolly
Reconnaissance Pilot
Camera Instructor
Live a Little, Love a Little
Mike Lansdown
The Turning Point
Joe Silbray
Eagle Squadron
Ramsey
Cripple Creek
Denver Jones
Gidget Goes to Rome
Russell Lawrence
The Savage
Running Dog
The Norliss Tapes
Sanford T. Evans
Our Miss Brooks
Lawrence Nolan
Youngblood Hawke
Ferdie Lax
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Gen. Rocky Jensen
She-Wolf of London
Barry Lanfield
The President's Mistress
Craig
Wild Beauty
Dr. Dave Morrow
Who Done It?
'Murder at Midnight' program manager
Buck Privates Come Home
Capt. Christie
711 Ocean Drive
Larry Mason
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
Myron Brynk
The Morning After
Rudy King
White Line Fever
Cutler
Madame Spy
David Bannister
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
George Robinson
Eyes of the Underworld
Edward Jason
Top Sergeant
Al Bennett
Murder or Mercy
Henry Balin
My Friend Irma Goes West
Mr. Brent
Last Hours Before Morning
Mr. Pace
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
Judge Oliver Haynes
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
Caufield
Danger Woman
Professor Claude Ruppert
Mystery of the White Room
Dr. Donald Fox
Because You're Mine
Captain Burton Nordell Loring
A Woman for All Men
Barney
Cuban Pete
Roberts
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
Lt. Frank L. Williams, Jr. - American Co-pilot
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
Ed 'Mad Dog' Murphy
How to Fly the B-26 Airplane
Captain Dick
The Fallbrook Story
Narrator
Interview with Pontius Pilate
Theodore Michael