Person Detail
Don Porter
Catalogued films 38Actor 37
Donald Cecil Porter (September 24, 1912 – February 11, 1997) was an American stage, film and television actor. On television, he played Peter Sands, the boss of Ann Sothern's character on Private Secretary, and Russell Lawrence, the widowed father of 15-year-old Frances "Gidget" Lawrence (Sally Field) in the 1965 ABC sitcom Gidget.
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The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
Tropic of Desire
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
A Woman for All Men
White Line Fever
Last Hours Before Morning
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
Murder or Mercy
Mame
The Morning After
40 Carats
The Norliss Tapes
The Candidate
Live a Little, Love a Little
Youngblood Hawke
Gidget Goes to Rome
Bachelor in Paradise
Our Miss Brooks
The Savage
The Turning Point
Cripple Creek
Because You're Mine
The Racket
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
711 Ocean Drive
My Friend Irma Goes West
Buck Privates Come Home
Danger Woman
She-Wolf of London
Cuban Pete
How to Fly the B-26 Airplane
Keep 'Em Slugging
Night Monster
Eyes of the Underworld
Top Sergeant
Madame Spy
Mystery of the White Room
