Norman Fell
Born: 1924-03-24 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1998-12-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
Norman Fell (born Norman Noah Feld; March 24, 1924 – December 14, 1998) was an American actor of film and television. He is most famous for his role as landlord Mr. Roper on the sitcom Three's Company and its spin-off, The Ropers. His film credits include Ocean's 11 (1960), The Graduate (1967), and Bullitt (1968). Early in his career, he was billed as Norman Feld. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1924, Fell graduated from Temple University with a bachelor's degree in drama. During World War II, he was an Air Force tail gunner in the Pacific. After the war, he studied acting and obtained small parts in television and on stage. His first regular TV appearance was in the comedy series Joe & Mabel (1956). Fell died in 1998 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's retirement home in Woodland Hills CA, aged 74, survived by two daughters.
Filmography
2011
- Underground Entertainment: The Movie as Norman (archive footage)
1996
1995
- The Naked Truth as Norman Fell
- Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare as Grandpa Joe Dooley
1993
- Hexed as Herschel Levine
1992
- The Ben Stiller Show
- The Naked Truth as The Dentist
1991
- For the Boys as Sam Schiff
- The Boneyard as Shepard
- Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' as Self
- You're Driving Me Crazy as Doctor 'F'
- With Friends Like These... as Narrator (voice)
1990
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as The Landlord
1989
1988
1987
- Stripped to Kill as Ray
1986
- Matlock as Norman Radburn
- Sledge Hammer! as Doctor
- It's Garry Shandling's Show as Norman Fell
1985
- The Twilight Zone
- Transylvania 6-5000 as Mac Turner
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Vince Shackman
- Crazy like a Fox as Inspector Peyton
- 1st & Ten as Artie
- The Jesse Owens Story as Marty Forkins
- Don't Ask Me, Ask God as Jonesey
1983
- Uncommon Valor as Garvin
1982
- Matt Houston
- Teachers Only as Principal Ben Cooper
- Magic with the Stars as Self
1981
- Simon & Simon as Leo Nyquist
- Paternity as Larry
- The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats as Jack McGuire
- On the Right Track as The Mayor
1980
- Magnum, P.I. as David Albertson
- This Year's Blonde as Pat Toledo
- Dan August: Once Is Never Enough as Sgt. Charles Wilentz
- Dan August: The Jealousy Factor as Sgt. Charles Wilentz
- For the Love of It as Hall
1979
- Roots: The Next Generations as Paul Reynolds
- The Ropers as Stanley Roper
- Pat Boone and Family: A Christmas Special as Self
1978
- The End as Dr. Samuel Krugman
- Rabbit Test as Segoynia's Father
1977
- The Love Boat as Bill McCoy
- Three's Company as Stanley Roper
- Grizzly Adams as Mitch Morgan
1976
- Charlie's Angels as Sammy Telford
- The Bionic Woman
- Rich Man, Poor Man as Smitty
- Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours as Mr. Brockelman
- Guardian of the Wilderness
1975
- Starsky & Hutch
- Switch as Marty
- Ellery Queen as Errol Keyes
- Fay
- Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold as Stanly Nagel
- Death Stalk as Frank Cody
1974
- Rhoda
- Airport 1975 as Bill
- Thursday's Game as Melvin Leonard
1973
- Police Story
- Charley Varrick as Mr. Garfinkle
- The Stone Killer as Les Daniels
- Needles and Pins as Nathan Davidson
1972
- The Streets of San Francisco
- The Heist as Pat Dillon
1971
- Cannon
- McMillan & Wife as Allan Kovacs
1970
- The Partridge Family as Mr. Bruner
- McCloud as Lt. Ed Feldman
- Dan August as Sgt. Charles Wilentz
- Catch-22 as First Sgt. Towser
- The Boatniks as Max
1969
- Love, American Style as Jack 'J.K.' Lewis
- Medical Center
- If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium as Harve Blakely
- Three's a Crowd as Norman, the Elevator Operator
1968
- The Name of the Game as Winston Polk
- Bullitt as Captain Baker
- The Secret War of Harry Frigg as Captain Stanley
- Sergeant Ryker as Sgt. Max Winkler
- The Young Runaways as Mr. Donford
1967
- Ironside
- Mannix
- The Invaders as Neal Taft
- The Graduate as Mr. McCleery
- Judd, for the Defense
- Fitzwilly as Oberblatz
- Ghostbreakers as Lieutenant P. J. Hartunain
- The Young Warriors as Sgt. Wadley
1966
1965
- The Wild Wild West as Jeremiah Ratch
- The F.B.I. as Ted Cullinan
- Quick, Before It Melts as George Snell
1964
- Bewitched
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Mark Slate
- The Killers as Mickey Farmer
- The Hanged Man as Gaylord Grebb
1963
- The Fugitive as Lieutenant Ed Green
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Eddie Carr
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Sgt. Max Winkler
- Mr. Novak as Barney Sanders
- The Lieutenant
- PT 109 as Edmund Drewitch
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Al Norman
- Sam Benedict
- The Lloyd Bridges Show as Mel Baxter
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Dr. Kildare as Dr. Keith Mayes
- The Defenders as George Capp
- Ben Casey
- 87th Precinct as Detective Meyer Meyer
- Cain's Hundred as Frank Driscoll
1960
- Ocean's Eleven as Peter Rheimer
- The Aquanauts as Oliver Pappas
- The Tom Ewell Show
- Inherit the Wind as WGN Radio Technician
- The Tab Hunter Show
- The Rat Race as Telephone Repairman
1959
- The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis as Dr. Caul
- Johnny Staccato
- Pork Chop Hill as S/Sgt. Coleman
- What Makes Sammy Run? as Sammy's Brother
1958
1957
- Perry Mason as Caspar Pedley
- The Violators as Ray
1956
- Stanley as Nick
1955
1954
- Twelve Angry Men as Juror #1 / Foreman
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Wint Selby
1948
- Studio One as Juror #1 / Foreman