Don Porter
- Recitazione
- 24 settembre 1912 · Miami, Oklahoma, USA
- 11 febbraio 1997
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Matlock · Erskine Tate
- Hotel · Jonathan Corry
- I Fantasmi di Buxley Hall · Judge Oliver Haynes
- The Last Song · Philip Brockhurst
- The Murder That Wouldn't Die · Gen. Rocky Jensen
- Interview with Pontius Pilate · Theodore Michael
- Tropic of Desire · Commodore Phillips
- Vega$
- The Paper Chase
- Dallas · Matt Devlin
- The President's Mistress · Craig
- Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. · Caufield
- Love Boat · Slade Summerhill, George Cowens
- Tre cuori in affitto
- City of Angels
- La donna bionica
- Ellery Queen
- Switch · Paul Lorimer, Salvensen
- A Woman for All Men · Barney
- Violenza sull'autostrada · Cutler
- Last Hours Before Morning · Mr. Pace
- The Legend of Lizzie Borden · George Robinson
- Archer
- Happy Anniversary and Goodbye · Ed Murphy
- Murder or Mercy · Henry Balin
- Mame · Mr. Upson
- The Morning After · Rudy King
- L'uomo da sei milioni di dollari · Dr. Stanley Bacon
- La signora a 40 carati · Mr. Latham
- The Norliss Tapes · Sanford T. Evans
- Barnaby Jones · Jeremy Markham
- A tutte le auto della polizia
- Il candidato · Senator Crocker Jarmon
- Love, American Style
- Hawaii squadra cinque zero · Jonathan Cavel, Alex Kelsey
- Live a Little, Love a Little · Mike Lansdown
- Mod Squad, i ragazzi di Greer
- Here's Lucy · Ken Richards
- Al banco della difesa
- F.B.I. · Mason Hammond
- La fattoria dei giorni felici
- Gidget · Professor Russell Lawrence, Regia
- Scandalo in società · Ferdie Lax
- Gidget a Roma · Russell Lawrence
- Vacation Playhouse · Battersea, The Housekeeper
- Uno scapolo in paradiso · Thomas W. Jynson
- La segretaria quasi privata · Don the Elevator Operator (uncredited)
- Our Miss Brooks · Lawrence Nolan
- Private Secretary
- Da quando sei mia · Captain Burton Nordell Loring
- Il giuramento dei Sioux · Running Dog
- Furore sulla città · Joe Silbray
- Contrabbando per l'oriente · Denver Jones
- The Fallbrook Story · Narrator
- La gang · R. G. Connolly
- Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone · Myron Brynk
- Mondo equivoco · Larry Mason
- Irma va a Hollywood · Mr. Brent
- Addio all'esercito · Capt. Christie
- Wild Beauty · Dr. Dave Morrow
- Danger Woman · Professor Claude Ruppert
- Cuban Pete · Roberts
- La Donna-Lupo di Londra · Barry Lanfield
- Resisting Enemy Interrogation · Lt. Frank L. Williams, Jr. - American Co-pilot
- How to Fly the B-26 Airplane · Captain Dick
- Keep 'Em Slugging · Jerry
- Reconnaissance Pilot · Camera Instructor
- Madame Spy · David Bannister
- Gianni e Pinotto detectives · 'Murder at Midnight' program manager
- Night Monster · Dick Baldwin
- Eyes of the Underworld · Edward Jason
- Eagle Squadron · Ramsey
- Top Sergeant · Al Bennett
- Mystery of the White Room · Dr. Donald Fox