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Don Porter
Miami, Oklahoma, USA
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. O…
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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, 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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1986
Matlock
TV show Erskine Tate
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1982
Hotel
TV show Jonathan Corry
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1980
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
Movie Judge Oliver Haynes
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1980
The Last Song
Movie Philip Brockhurst
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1980
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Movie Gen. Rocky Jensen
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1980
Interview with Pontius Pilate
Movie Theodore Michael
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1979
Tropic of Desire
Movie Commodore Phillips
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1978
Vega$
TV show
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1978
The Paper Chase
TV show
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1978
Dallas
TV show Matt Devlin
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1978
The President's Mistress
Movie Craig
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1977
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
Movie Caufield
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1977
The Love Boat
TV show Slade Summerhill
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1977
Three's Company
TV show
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1976
City of Angels
TV show
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1976
The Bionic Woman
TV show
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1975
Ellery Queen
TV show
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1975
Switch
TV show Paul Lorimer
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1975
A Woman for All Men
Movie Barney
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1975
White Line Fever
Movie Cutler
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1975
Last Hours Before Morning
Movie Mr. Pace
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1975
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
Movie George Robinson
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1975
Archer
TV show
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1974
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
Movie Ed Murphy
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1974
Murder or Mercy
Movie Henry Balin
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1974
Mame
Movie Mr. Upson
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1974
The Morning After
Movie Rudy King
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1974
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV show Dr. Stanley Bacon
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1973
40 Carats
Movie Mr. Latham
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1973
The Norliss Tapes
Movie Sanford T. Evans
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1973
Barnaby Jones
TV show Jeremy Markham
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1972
The Rookies
TV show
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1972
The Candidate
Movie Senator Crocker Jarmon
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1969
Love, American Style
TV show
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1969
Hawaii Five-O
TV show Jonathan Cavel
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1968
Live a Little, Love a Little
Movie Mike Lansdown
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1968
The Mod Squad
TV show
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1968
Here's Lucy
TV show Ken Richards
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1967
Judd, for the Defense
TV show
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1965
The F.B.I.
TV show Mason Hammond
