Don Porter (Actor)

Reviews of Don Porter Movies

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Movies starring Don Porter have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 59%.

Desk Set - released in 1957 - is Don Porter's highest rated movie, with a score of 75% based on 139 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Don Porter is A Woman for All Men - released in 1975 - with a score of 49% based on 1 reviews.

Actor 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.

Don Porter has acted in films with Milburn Stone, Norman Stevans, Michael Jeffers and Dick Cherney.

Don Porter has worked with these film directors: Paul Wendkos, Dan Curtis, Joseph M. Newman and Arthur Marks.