Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

143

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-03-24

Deathday

1998-12-14 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Also Known As

Norman Feld

Norman Fell

Biography

Norman Fell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1924. He 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). His best known TV role was that of Stanley Roper, the landlord in the very popular "Three's Company" (1976), which debuted in 1977, and its short lived spin-off, "The Ropers" (1979).

Norman Fell died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's retirement home in Woodland Hills CA, aged 74, survived by two daughters

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Acting

1996		E! True Hollywood Story
1996		The Destiny of Marty Fine as Daryl

1995		The Naked Truth as Norman Fell
1995		Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare as Grandpa Joe Dooley

1993

Hexed as Herschel Levine

1992		The Naked Truth as The Dentist
1992		The Ben Stiller Show

1991		For the Boys as Sam Schiff
1991		The Boneyard as Shepard
1991		With Friends Like These... as Narrator (voice)
1991		You're Driving Me Crazy as Doctor 'F'
1991		Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' as Self

1990

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as The Landlord

1989		The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
1989		The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! as Ted Bull
1989		C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud as Tyler

1988

Murphy's Law

1987

Stripped to Kill as Ray

1986		Sledge Hammer!
1986		It's Garry Shandling's Show as Norman Fell
1986		Matlock as Dr. Norman Radburn

1985		Transylvania 6-5000 as Mac Turner
1985		The Twilight Zone

1984		Crazy like a Fox as Inspector Peyton
1984		1st & Ten as Artie
1984		Murder, She Wrote as Vince Shackman
1984		Murder, She Wrote as Lt. Ralph Rupp
1984		The Jesse Owens Story as Marty Forkins
1984		Don't Ask Me, Ask God as Jonesey

1983

Uncommon Valor as Garvin

1982		Matt Houston
1982		Teachers Only as Principal Ben Cooper
1982		Magic with the Stars

1981		Simon & Simon
1981		Paternity as Larry
1981		The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats as Jack McGuire
1981		On the Right Track as The Mayor

1980		Dan August: The Jealousy Factor as Sgt. Charles Wilentz
1980		Magnum, P.I.
1980		For the Love of It as Hall
1980		This Year's Blonde as Pat Toledo
1980		Dan August: Once Is Never Enough as Sgt. Charles Wilentz

1979		Pat Boone and Family: A Christmas Special as Self
1979		The Ropers as Stanley Roper
1979		Roots: The Next Generations as Bernie Raymond

1978		The End as Dr. Samuel Krugman
1978		Rabbit Test as Segoynia's Father

1977		The Love Boat as Bill McCoy
1977		Three's Company as Stanley Roper

1976		Guardian of the Wilderness
1976		Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours as Mr. Brockelman
1976		Charlie's Angels as Sammy Telford
1976		Rich Man, Poor Man as Smitty
1976		The Bionic Woman

1975		Ellery Queen as Errol Keyes
1975		Starsky & Hutch
1975		Switch as Marty
1975		Fay
1975		Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold as Stanly Nagel
1975		Death Stalk as Frank Cody

1974		Airport 1975 as Bill
1974		Rhoda
1974		Rhoda as Dr. Henry Gerber
1974		Thursday's Game as Melvin Leonard

1973		Needles and Pins as Nathan Davidson
1973		Charley Varrick as Mr. Garfinkle
1973		The Stone Killer as Les Daniels
1973		Police Story

1972		The Heist as Pat Dillon
1972		The Streets of San Francisco
1972		The Streets of San Francisco as Juror

1971		McMillan & Wife as Allan Kovacs
1971		Cannon

1970		Dan August as Sgt. Charles Wilentz
1970		The Boatniks as Max
1970		Catch-22 as First Sgt. Towser
1970		McCloud

1969		Three's a Crowd as Norman, the Elevator Operator
1969		Love, American Style as Jack 'J.K.' Lewis
1969		Medical Center
1969		If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium as Harve Blakely

1968		Bullitt as Captain Baker
1968		The Name of the Game as Winston Polk
1968		The Young Runaways as Mr. Donford
1968		The Secret War of Harry Frigg as Captain Stanley
1968		Sergeant Ryker as Sgt. Max Winkler

1967		The Graduate as Mr. McCleery
1967		Fitzwilly as Oberblatz
1967		Mannix
1967		Mannix as Daniel Brewer
1967		Judd for the Defense
1967		Ghostbreakers as Lieutenant P. J. Hartunain
1967		Ironside
1967		The Young Warriors as Sgt. Wadley
1967		The Invaders as Neal Taft

1966

That Girl

1965		The F.B.I. as Ted Cullinan
1965		The F.B.I. as Ken Haney
1965		The F.B.I. as Victor Green
1965		The Wild Wild West as Jeremiah Ratch
1965		Quick, Before It Melts as George Snell

1964		The Hanged Man as Gaylord Grebb
1964		The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Mark Slate
1964		Bewitched
1964		The Killers as Mickey Farmer

1963		It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as Detective at Grogan's Crash Site
1963		Kraft Suspense Theatre as Sgt. Max Winkler
1963		Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Eddie Carr
1963		Mr. Novak as Barney Sanders
1963		The Fugitive as Lieutenant Ed Green
1963		The Fugitive as Lieutenant Cermak
1963		The Lieutenant
1963		PT 109 as Edmund Drewitch

1962		The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962		The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Al Norman
1962		Sam Benedict
1962		The Lloyd Bridges Show as Mel Baxter

1961		The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961		Ben Casey
1961		Dr. Kildare as Dr. Keith Mayes
1961		Dr. Kildare as Arnold Vitnack
1961		87th Precinct as Detective Meyer Meyer
1961		Cain's Hundred as Frank Driscoll
1961		The Defenders as George Capp

1960		The Tom Ewell Show
1960		The Tab Hunter Show
1960		The Aquanauts as Oliver Pappas
1960		Ocean's Eleven as Peter Rheimer
1960		The Rat Race as Telephone Repairman
1960		Inherit the Wind as WGN Radio Technician

1959		The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis as Dr. Caul
1959		What Makes Sammy Run? as Sammy's Brother
1959		Johnny Staccato
1959		Pork Chop Hill as S/Sgt. Coleman

1958

Peter Gunn

1957		The Violators as Ray
1957		Perry Mason as Caspar Pedley

1956

Stanley as Nick

1955

Playwrights '56

1954

Twelve Angry Men as Juror #1 / Foreman

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Wint Selby

1948		Studio One as Juror #1 / Foreman
1948		Studio One as Jake