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Donald "Don" Porter (September 24, 1912 –February 11, 1997) was an American actor who appeared in a number of films since 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.
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25 June 1950
Singer Steve, friend Seymour and fiance Jane, along with her dizzy blonde room mate Irma, have a series of misadventures on a California-bound train and end up involved with a gang of murderous gangsters in Las Vegas.
01 September 1952
The only white survivor of a Crow Indian raid on a wagon train is a young boy. He is rescued by the Sioux, and the Sioux chief raises him as an Indian in very way.
29 June 1972
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
28 June 1973
After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann Stanley returns to New York assuming she'll never see Peter Latham again.
17 March 1939
A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
25 October 1951
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon.
15 June 1979
A male hustler drifts into Key West, where he becomes involved in a series of steamy interludes with disreputable locals intertwined in various political intrigues.
10 February 1975
A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.
01 October 1952
A famous opera singer falls for his sergeant's sister at boot camp.
12 July 1952
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator.
13 February 1974
A successful public relations man's refusal to admit his alcoholism jeopardizes his career, his family and his life.
23 October 1968
Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.
21 December 1980
Ghosts and a young cadet try to save a military academy from being closed.
20 October 1942
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
08 December 1950
Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.
01 July 1950
A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation.
01 November 1961
A bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unofficial relationship advisor to unhappy local housewives, to the dismay of their respective husbands who suspect him of sexual misconduct.
07 March 1974
The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick is entrusted to her care.
21 February 1973
A newspaper publisher listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss, who has disappeared during an investigation.
30 October 1942
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
19 April 1975
An ex-cop, now a private detective, investigating a gambler's murder finds that there may be a connection between that crime and the jewel robbery at a beautiful movie star's home.
10 April 1974
An attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the mercy killing of his wife.
09 March 1980
William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach in this pilot to a post-"Cannon" series to have been called "Battles.
30 June 1952
It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the outlaws are stealing high grade ore, having it smelted, and then having it plated to look like lead.
01 March 1943
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort.
17 May 1946
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.
01 August 1975
Irascible and domineering millionaire Walter McCoy marries the beautiful, but shady and duplicitous Karen Petrie.
16 June 1942
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
02 October 1942
Blackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.
12 July 1946
A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.
10 February 1978
A government courier is caught in a deadly cover-up after discovering that his murdered sister was not only the mistress of a U.
25 January 1943
Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over enemy-held islands.
24 April 1956
The big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950's. Arden stars as Connie Brooks, wisecracking English teacher at Madison High School, still hoping to tie the knot with shy biology teacher Philip Boynton (Robert Rockwell).
01 January 1952
“The Fallbrook Story,” is a 20-minute film of Cold War-era uneasiness in which director Frank Capra rails against what he calls the evils of Big Bureaucracy.
04 April 1947
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to.
26 June 1946
Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on to an American radio program.
11 December 1942
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr.
07 August 1963
Francis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of his friends.
19 November 1974
As her 25th anniversary approaches, Norma Michaels realizes that her marriage to her dentist husband Malcolm has become boring.
14 June 1942
An army sergeant recognises a young recruit as the man responsible for his brother's death, while attempting a robbery.
26 December 1977
Based on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas Eve, 1951.
14 March 1944
Documentary feature film depicting the training of young Lieutenant Jim Anthony as a pilot of the B-26 Marauder bomber.
16 July 1975
An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.
08 August 1946
In this western, a Native American boy and his horse Wild Beauty make friends with a gentle doctor who helps the boy save his beloved steed from the cruel industrialist who has been slaughtering horses and using their hides for making shoes.
02 August 1957
A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff.
04 November 1964
An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.
23 October 1980
An aspiring singer unwittingly comes into possession of several tapes for which her engineer husband and his partner, in their electronic eavesdropping business, were murdered, and discovers that she and her daughter are now being stalked by the killers.
01 January 1980
A twentieth century TV journalist conducts an exclusive first century interview with Pontius Pilate thirty years after Christ's death.
01 August 1944
A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic WW2 training film.
