Gidget: My Ever-Faithful, Long-Lasting Lifetime Friend
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My Ever-Faithful, Long-Lasting Lifetime Friend
Season 1, Episode 11
Gidget mistakenly thinks that her father and her best friend are romantically involved.
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1965
English
Comedy
Sitcom
Cast & Crew
Don Porter
(Actor)
.. Prof. Russ Lawrence
Mike Nader
(Actor)
.. Siddo
Stephanie Hill
(Actor)
.. Dolly
Lynette Winter
(Actor)
.. Larue
Russ Bender
(Actor)
.. Tacky
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Did You Know..
Don Porter
(Actor)
.. Prof. Russ Lawrence
Born:
January 01, 1912
Died: February 11, 1997
Died: February 11, 1997
Trivia:
After a few seasons of stage work, Don Porter signed a Universal Pictures contract in 1939. Porter spent most of his screen time at Universal as a general-purpose actor: he was most interestingly cast in Abbott and Costello's Who Done It? (1942), energetically participating in the film's slapstick climax. In the postwar years, Porter played many a stuffed-shirt businessman, often with a few illegal irons in the fire. On television, he played Ann Sothern's eternally flummoxed boss, theatrical agent Peter Sands, in the long-running (1953-57) sitcom Private Secretary (aka Susie). When Sothern decided to make a few alterations in her subsequent Ann Sothern Show(1958-61), she brought in her old friend and colleague Porter to play another boss, hotelier James Devery. In 1963, Porter was cast as Gidget's dad Mr. Lawrence in the theatrical feature Gidget Goes to Rome (1963); this led to his being recast in the same role on the 1965 TV version of Gidget starring Sally Field. One of Porter's more rewarding post-Gidget assignments was the part of the teflon-coated Republican incumbent in Robert Redford's The Candidate. Don Porter was married to actress Peggy Converse. Porter passed away in Los Angeles at age 84.
Mike Nader
(Actor)
.. Siddo
Born:
February 18, 1945
Trivia:
Tall, dark-haired, and exotically handsome Michael Nader is known for playing Dex Dexter on the nighttime television soap opera Dynasty and for playing enigmatic Dimitri Marick on the daytime sudser All My Children. He began his career in films in the teen movie Bikini Beach (1964). He had his first regular television role playing Peter "Siddo" Stone in the sitcom Gidget (1965-1966). After the series' demise, Nader studied at the Actor's Studio in New York and went on to appear off-Broadway in a few plays before getting cast as Kevin Thompson in the soap As the World Turns. From there he won the role of Alex Theodopolous in the short-lived nighttime serial Bare Essence (1983). That same year, he joined Dynasty's cast as Joan Collins' new husband. He debuted on All My Children in late 1991. When not busy on that show, Nader has occasionally guest starred on other television shows and appeared in feature films such as Fled (1996).
Stephanie Hill
(Actor)
.. Dolly
Lynette Winter
(Actor)
.. Larue
Russ Bender
(Actor)
.. Tacky
Born:
January 01, 1910
Died: August 16, 1969
Died: August 16, 1969
Trivia:
Over his 14-year film career, actor Russ Bender appeared almost exclusively in low-budget horror films: The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957), It Conquered the World (1957), Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1965), etc. One of his few "mainstream" assignments was the role of Edgar Llewellyn in 20th Century-Fox's Compulsion (1959). Russ Bender is also listed as screenwriter on such pinchpenny projects as Voodoo Woman.
