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