Don Porter

Actor · Director
IVA Star Rating : 38
Donald "Don" Porter was an American actor who appeared in a number of films in the 1940s, including Top Sergeant and Eagle Squadron, but is perhaps best known for his television roles as Peter Sands, the boss of Ann Sothern's character on Private Secretary, and as Russell Lawrence, the widowed father of 15-year-old Frances "Gidget" Lawrence, in the 1965 ABC sitcom Gidget.

Donald "Don" Porter was an American actor who appeared in a number of films in the 1940s, including Top Sergeant and Eagle Squadron, but is perhaps best known for his television roles as Peter Sands, the boss of Ann Sothern's character on Private Secretary, and as Russell Lawrence, the widowed father of 15-year-old Frances "Gidget" Lawrence, in the 1965 ABC sitcom Gidget.

Birth Name

Don Cecil Porter

Born

Tuesday, 24 September 1912

Died

Tuesday, 11 February 1997

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