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Acting

Don Porter

Career: Active from 1942 to 1980, busiest in 1942 and 1946 with 4 main titles each.

Leading roles: 11
top three billing

Average score: 58/100

Highest rated: The Legend of Lizzie Borden
75/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 43 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Don Porter Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Melancholy
3.1, average 4.7
Pathos
3.8, average 5.3
Psychological
4.1, average 5.5
Violence
2.8, average 4.1

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Family-Friendly 2
Character Study 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

74

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1980s

6 titles · average score 59

Matlock

54

TV show · as Erskine Tate

Hotel

65

TV show · as Jonathan Corry

The Ghosts of Buxley Hall

48

as Judge Oliver Haynes

The Last Song

70

as Philip Brockhurst

The Murder That Wouldn't Die

as Gen. Rocky Jensen

Interview with Pontius Pilate

as Theodore Michael

1970s

27 titles · average score 62

Dallas

73

TV show · as Matt Devlin

The Love Boat

53

TV show · as Slade Summerhill / George Cowens

Three's Company

80

TV show

The Bionic Woman

51

TV show

White Line Fever

43

as Cutler

The Legend of Lizzie Borden

75

as George Robinson

A Woman for All Men

47

as Barney

The Morning After

72

as Rudy King

The Six Million Dollar Man

71

TV show · as Dr. Stanley Bacon

The Norliss Tapes

54

as Sanford T. Evans

Barnaby Jones

70

TV show · as Jeremy Markham

The Candidate

73

as Senator Crocker Jarmon

1960s

13 titles · average score 58

Hawaii Five-O

48

TV show · as Alex Kelsey / Jonathan Cavel

Love, American Style

43

TV show

Live a Little, Love a Little

58

as Mike Lansdown

Here's Lucy

68

TV show · as Ken Richards

The Mod Squad

43

TV show

Judd, for the Defense

76

TV show

Gidget

45

TV show · as Professor Russell Lawrence

Green Acres

72

TV show

The F.B.I.

65

TV show · as Mason Hammond

Vacation Playhouse

TV show · as Battersea, The Housekeeper

Gidget Goes to Rome

50

as Russell Lawrence

Bachelor in Paradise

54

as Thomas W. Jynson

1950s

12 titles · average score 63

Desk Set

87

as Don the Elevator Operator (uncredited)

Our Miss Brooks

66

as Lawrence Nolan

Private Secretary

69

TV show

The Savage

64

as Running Dog

Cripple Creek

56

as Denver Jones

The Fallbrook Story

as Narrator

The Turning Point

68

as Joe Silbray

Because You're Mine

50

as Captain Burton Nordell Loring

The Racket

44

as R. G. Connolly

711 Ocean Drive

65

as Larry Mason

My Friend Irma Goes West

52

as Mr. Brent

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

68

as Myron Brynk

1940s

15 titles · average score 59

Buck Privates Come Home

66

as Capt. Christie

She-Wolf of London

30

as Barry Lanfield

Danger Woman

as Professor Claude Ruppert

Cuban Pete

as Roberts

Wild Beauty

as Dr. Dave Morrow

How to Fly the B-26 Airplane

as Captain Dick

Reconnaissance Pilot

as Camera Instructor

Madame Spy

as David Bannister

Night Monster

55

as Dick Baldwin

Eyes of the Underworld

as Edward Jason

Top Sergeant

as Al Bennett

Who Done It?

76

as 'Murder at Midnight' program manager

1930s

1 title

Mystery of the White Room

as Dr. Donald Fox