DON PORTER, WAS FATHER ON `GIDGET'.Byline: Stacy Brown Daily News Staff Writer Don Porter, best known for playing the father of ``Gidget'' in the television series with Sally Field Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is a two-time Academy Award winning American actress. She is also a three-time Emmy Award-winning and two-time Golden Globe Award winner who became a household name at age 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom , has died. He was 84. Porter died Feb. 11 at his home in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . He was born in Oklahoma and served in World War II before beginning a career in show business that lasted for decades. He began acting on stage in Portland, Ore., and starred in more than 200 plays across the country. On Broadway he performed in ``Plaza Suite Plaza Suite is a play by Neil Simon. It is composed of three acts, each involving different characters but all set in Suite 719 of New York City's Plaza Hotel. ,'' ``Any Wednesday'' and a revival of ``The Front Page.'' In the 1960s Porter played Professor Russ Lawrence, the widowed father of the teen-ager Gidget, played by Sally Field. In one of television's earliest sitcoms, ``Private Secretary,'' Porter played Peter Sands Peter Sands is a former Irish politician who briefly served as a member of the 22nd Seanad Éireann for Fianna Fáil. He was nominated on 23 June, 2007 by the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to fill a vacancy left by the election of Brendan Kenneally to the Dáil in the 2007 general election. , the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of talent agent boss of secretary Susie McNamera, played by Ann Sothern. The show ran from 1953 to 1957. Porter also portrayed Sothern's boss in ``The Ann Sothern Show,'' which aired from 1958 to 1961. In one of his last roles, he played an incumbent senator alongside Robert Redford in the 1972 Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . film ``The Candidate.'' Porter is survived by his wife and frequent co-star, actress Peggy Converse; daughter Melissa Converse, also an actress, and by a son, Don Porter Jr., an architect. The family asked that any memorial donations be made to the Salvation Army or to the Motion Picture and Television Fund. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Actor Don Porter played the dad on ``Gidget'' with Sally Field as Gidget. Associated Press |
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