Don Porter
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.
The Candidate
as Senator Crocker JarmonBill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he...
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She-Wolf of London
as Barry LanfieldA young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family...
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The Racket
as R. G. ConnollyThe big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick...
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Desk Set
as Don the Elevator Operator (uncredited)A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's...
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The Savage
as Running DogThe only white survivor of a Crow Indian raid on a wagon train is a young boy. He is rescued by...
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White Line Fever
as CutlerAn independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.
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Live a Little, Love a Little
as Mike LansdownPhotographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble...
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40 Carats
as Mr. LathamAfter an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann...
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Who Done It?
as 'Murder at Midnight' program managerTwo dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio...
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Bachelor in Paradise
as Thomas W. JynsonA bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an...
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711 Ocean Drive
as Larry MasonThe Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a...
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Night Monster
as Dick BaldwinKurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his...
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The Turning Point
as Joe SilbraySpecial prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop...
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Gidget Goes to Rome
as Russell LawrenceFrancis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a...
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Youngblood Hawke
as Ferdie LaxAn unknown Kentucky writer (James Franciscus) comes to New York and pursues fame and women...
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My Friend Irma Goes West
as Mr. BrentSinger Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a...
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The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
as Judge Oliver HaynesGhosts and a young cadet try to save a military academy from being closed.
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The Norliss Tapes
as Sanford T. EvansA newspaper publisher listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss, who...
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Cripple Creek
as Denver JonesIt's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the...
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Buck Privates Come Home
as Capt. ChristieTwo ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French...
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Because You're Mine
as Captain Burton Nordell LoringA famous opera singer falls for his sergeant's sister at boot camp.
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Eagle Squadron
as RamseyAn American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in...
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Last Hours Before Morning
as Mr. PaceAn ex-cop, now a private detective, investigating a gambler's murder finds that there may be a...
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A Woman for All Men
as BarneyIrascible and domineering millionaire Walter McCoy marries the beautiful, but shady and...
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Mame
as Mr. UpsonThe madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted...
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Our Miss Brooks
as Lawrence NolanThe big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950's. Arden stars as...
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Reconnaissance Pilot
as Camera InstructorDocumentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second...
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The Last Song
as Philip BrockhurstAn aspiring singer unwittingly comes into possession of several tapes for which her engineer...
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The Legend of Lizzie Borden
as George RobinsonA dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her...
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Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
as Ed 'Mad Dog' MurphyAs her 25th anniversary approaches, Norma Michaels realizes that her marriage to her dentist...
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Keep 'Em Slugging
as JerryA gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men...
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Tropic of Desire
as Commodore PhillipsA male hustler drifts into Key West, where he becomes involved in a series of steamy interludes...
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Madame Spy
as David BannisterJoan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the...
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Murder or Mercy
as Henry BalinAn attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the...
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Danger Woman
as Professor Claude RuppertA woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.
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The President's Mistress
as CraigA government courier is caught in a deadly cover-up after discovering that his murdered sister...
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Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
as CaufieldBased on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas...
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Top Sergeant
as Al BennettAn army sergeant recognises a young recruit as the man responsible for his brother's death,...
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Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
as Myron BrynkHarriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.
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Wild Beauty
as Dr. Dave MorrowIn this western, a Native American boy and his horse Wild Beauty make friends with a gentle...
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The Murder That Wouldn't Die
as Gen. Rocky JensenWilliam Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as...
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Cuban Pete
as RobertsUnable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann...
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Resisting Enemy Interrogation
as Lt. Frank L. Williams, Jr. - American Co-pilotA downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the...
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Mystery of the White Room
as Dr. Donald FoxA doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
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Eyes of the Underworld
as Edward JasonBlackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.
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How to Fly the B-26 Airplane
as Captain DickDocumentary feature film depicting the training of young Lieutenant Jim Anthony as a pilot of...
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The Morning After
as Rudy KingA successful public relations man's refusal to admit his alcoholism jeopardizes his career, his...
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Dallas
as Matt DevlinThe world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all....
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Hawaii Five-O
as Jonathan CavelHawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and...
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Hawaii Five-O
as Alex KelseyHawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and...
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The Love Boat
as Slade SummerhillPassengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...
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Love, American Style
as uncreditedAn anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in...
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The Six Million Dollar Man
as Dr. Stanley BaconFollow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent,...
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The F.B.I.
as Mason HammondThe F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...
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Three's Company
as uncreditedThe three single roommates Janet Wood, Chrissy Snow and Jack Tripper all platonically share...
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Matlock
as uncreditedMatlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of...
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The Bionic Woman
as uncreditedAfter fully recovering from her near fatal bout of bionic rejection, Jaime Sommers, the first...
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Judd for the Defense
as uncreditedHigh-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases...
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The Mod Squad
as uncreditedThe Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran...
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The Paper Chase
as uncreditedCritically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious...
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Hotel
as uncreditedHotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May...
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City of Angels
as uncreditedCity of Angels is a 1976 television series created by Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins, who...
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The Rookies
as uncreditedThe Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows...
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Barnaby Jones
as Jeremy MarkhamBarnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as...
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Ellery Queen
as uncreditedEllery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character...
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Switch
as Paul LorimerSwitch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert...
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Switch
as SalvensenSwitch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert...
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Vega$
as uncreditedVega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981....
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Green Acres
as uncreditedGreen Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from...
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Gidget
as Professor Russell LawrenceGidget is an American sitcom about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called "Gidget" and her widowed...
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