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
Series | E! True Hollywood Story | Unknown | 1996-08-21 |
Movie | Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare | Grandpa Joe Dooley | 1995-03-31 |
Movie | Hexed | Herschel Levine | 1993-01-22 |
Series | The Ben Stiller Show | Unknown | 1992-09-27 |
Movie | The Naked Truth | The Dentist | 1992-09-29 |
Movie | With Friends Like These... | Narrator (voice) | 1991-03-27 |
Movie | The Boneyard | Shepard | 1991-06-12 |
Movie | For the Boys | Sam Schiff | 1991-11-22 |
Movie | C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud | Tyler | 1989-05-05 |
Movie | Stripped to Kill | Ray | 1987-03-20 |
Series | Win, Lose or Draw | Unknown | 1987-09-07 |
Series | Sledge Hammer! | Unknown | 1986-09-23 |
Series | The Twilight Zone | Unknown | 1985-09-27 |
Movie | Transylvania 6-5000 | Mac Turner | 1985-11-08 |
Movie | The Jesse Owens Story | Marty Forkins | 1984-07-09 |
Series | Murder, She Wrote | Unknown | 1984-09-30 |
Series | Crazy like a Fox | Unknown | 1984-12-30 |
Movie | Uncommon Valor | Garvin | 1983-01-22 |
Series | Teachers Only | 1982-04-14 | |
Series | Matt Houston | Unknown | 1982-09-26 |
Movie | On the Right Track | The Mayor | 1981-03-06 |
Movie | The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats | Jack McGuire | 1981-08-28 |
Series | Simon & Simon | Unknown | 1981-11-24 |
Movie | Paternity | Larry | 1981-10-02 |
Movie | For the Love of It | Hall | 1980-09-26 |
Movie | This Year's Blonde | Pat Toledo | 1980-05-18 |
Series | Magnum, P.I. | Unknown | 1980-12-11 |
Series | The Ropers | Stanley Roper | 1979-03-13 |
Movie | Rabbit Test | Segoynia's Father | 1978-04-09 |
Movie | The End | Dr. Samuel Krugman | 1978-05-10 |
Series | Three's Company | Stanley Roper | 1977-03-15 |
Series | The Love Boat | Unknown | 1977-09-24 |
Series | Charlie's Angels | Unknown | 1976-09-22 |
Movie | Guardian of the Wilderness | 1976-12-07 | |
Movie | Death Stalk | Frank Cody | 1975-01-21 |
Series | Fay | Unknown | 1975-09-04 |
Movie | Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold | Stanly Nagel | 1975-07-11 |
Series | Switch | Unknown | 1975-09-09 |
Series | Starsky & Hutch | Unknown | 1975-09-10 |
Series | Ellery Queen | Unknown | 1975-09-11 |
Movie | Thursday's Game | Melvin Leonard | 1974-04-14 |
Movie | Airport 1975 | Bill | 1974-10-18 |
Series | Rhoda | Unknown | 1974-09-09 |
Series | Police Story | Unknown | 1973-03-20 |
Movie | The Stone Killer | Les Daniels | 1973-08-08 |
Series | Needles and Pins | Nathan Davidson | 1973-09-21 |
Movie | Charley Varrick | Mr. Garfinkle | 1973-09-19 |
Series | The Streets of San Francisco | Unknown | 1972-09-23 |
Series | Cannon | Unknown | 1971-09-14 |
Movie | Catch-22 | First Sgt. Towser | 1970-06-24 |
Movie | If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium | Harve Blakely | 1969-04-24 |
Series | Medical Center | Unknown | 1969-09-24 |
Movie | Three's a Crowd | Norman, the Elevator Operator | 1969-12-02 |
Movie | Sergeant Ryker | Sgt. Max Winkler | 1968-02-01 |
Movie | The Secret War of Harry Frigg | Captain Stanley | 1968-02-29 |
Movie | The Young Runaways | Mr. Donford | 1968-09-11 |
Movie | Bullitt | Captain Baker | 1968-10-17 |
Series | Ironside | Unknown | 1967-03-28 |
Movie | The Young Warriors | Sgt. Wadley | 1967-02-03 |
Movie | Ghostbreakers | Lieutenant P. J. Hartunain | 1967-09-08 |
Series | Mannix | Unknown | 1967-09-16 |
Movie | The Graduate | Mr. McCleery | 1967-12-21 |
Movie | Fitzwilly | Oberblatz | 1967-12-20 |
Movie | Quick, Before It Melts | George Snell | 1965-01-20 |
Series | Bewitched | Unknown | 1964-09-17 |
Movie | The Killers | Mickey Farmer | 1964-07-07 |
Movie | The Hanged Man | Gaylord Grebb | 1964-11-18 |
Movie | PT 109 | Edmund Drewitch | 1963-06-26 |
Series | The Lieutenant | Unknown | 1963-09-14 |
Series | Mr. Novak | Unknown | 1963-09-24 |
Series | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Unknown | 1963-10-10 |
Series | Sam Benedict | Unknown | 1962-09-15 |
Series | Cain's Hundred | Unknown | 1961-09-19 |
Series | Ben Casey | Unknown | 1961-10-02 |
Series | 87th Precinct | Detective Meyer Meyer | 1961-09-25 |
Series | Dr. Kildare | Unknown | 1961-09-27 |
Movie | Inherit the Wind | WGN Radio Technician | 1960-07-07 |
Movie | The Rat Race | Telephone Repairman | 1960-07-10 |
Series | The Tom Ewell Show | Unknown | 1960-09-27 |
Movie | Ocean's Eleven | Peter Rheimer | 1960-08-10 |
Series | The Aquanauts | Unknown | 1960-09-14 |
Movie | Pork Chop Hill | S/Sgt. Coleman | 1959-05-29 |
Series | Johnny Staccato | Unknown | 1959-09-10 |
Series | Perry Mason | Unknown | 1957-09-21 |
Movie | The Violators | Ray | 1957-11-30 |
Series | Playwrights '56 | Unknown | 1955-10-04 |
Movie | Twelve Angry Men | Juror #1 / Foreman | 1954-09-20 |
Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
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