Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
24 Sep, 1912 (112 years old)

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

The Norliss Tapes
HD
72 min 1973

The Norliss Tapes

Horror
Live a Little, Love a Little
HD
89 min 1968

Live a Little, Love a Little

Comedy
Gidget
HD
1965

Gidget

Comedy
She-Wolf of London
HD
61 min 1946

She-Wolf of London

Horror
Night Monster
HD
72 min 1942

Night Monster

Horror

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