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 | Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' | Self | 1991-01-01 |
Movie | With Friends Like These | Narrator (voice) | 1991-03-27 |
Movie | For the Boys | Sam Schiff | 1991-11-22 |
Movie | The Boneyard | Shepard | 1991-06-12 |
Series | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | The Landlord | 1990-09-10 |
Movie | C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud | Tyler | 1989-05-05 |
Series | Murphy's Law | Unknown | 1988-11-02 |
Movie | Stripped to Kill | Ray | 1987-03-20 |
Series | Matlock | Unknown | 1986-03-03 |
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 | Crazy like a Fox | Unknown | 1984-12-30 |
Series | Murder, She Wrote | Unknown | 1984-09-30 |
Movie | Uncommon Valor | Garvin | 1983-01-22 |
Series | Teachers Only | Principal Ben Cooper | 1982-04-14 |
Series | Matt Houston | Unknown | 1982-09-26 |
Movie | The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats | Jack McGuire | 1981-08-28 |
Movie | On the Right Track | The Mayor | 1981-03-06 |
Movie | Paternity | Larry | 1981-10-02 |
Series | Simon & Simon | Unknown | 1981-11-24 |
Movie | Dan August: Once Is Never Enough | Sgt. Charles Wilentz | 1980-01-01 |
Movie | This Year's Blonde | Pat Toledo | 1980-05-18 |
Movie | For the Love of It | Hall | 1980-09-26 |
Series | Magnum, P.I. | Unknown | 1980-12-11 |
Series | Roots: The Next Generations | Bernie Raymond | 1979-02-18 |
Series | The Ropers | Stanley Roper | 1979-03-13 |
Movie | The End | Dr. Samuel Krugman | 1978-05-10 |
Movie | Rabbit Test | Segoynia's Father | 1978-04-09 |
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 |
Series | The Bionic Woman | Unknown | 1976-01-14 |
Movie | Guardian of the Wilderness | 1976-12-07 | |
Movie | Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold | Stanly Nagel | 1975-07-11 |
Movie | Death Stalk | Frank Cody | 1975-01-21 |
Series | Fay | Unknown | 1975-09-04 |
Series | Switch | Unknown | 1975-09-09 |
Series | Ellery Queen | Unknown | 1975-09-11 |
Series | Starsky & Hutch | Unknown | 1975-09-10 |
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 |
Movie | Charley Varrick | Mr. Garfinkle | 1973-09-19 |
Series | Needles and Pins | Nathan Davidson | 1973-09-21 |
Series | The Streets of San Francisco | Unknown | 1972-09-23 |
Movie | The Heist | Pat Dillon | 1972-11-29 |
Series | Cannon | Unknown | 1971-09-14 |
Series | McCloud | Unknown | 1970-02-17 |
Movie | Catch-22 | First Sgt. Towser | 1970-06-24 |
Movie | The Boatniks | Max | 1970-07-01 |
Series | Dan August | Sgt. Charles Wilentz | 1970-09-23 |
Series | Medical Center | Unknown | 1969-09-24 |
Movie | If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium | Harve Blakely | 1969-04-24 |
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 |
Movie | Ghostbreakers | Lieutenant P. J. Hartunain | 1967-09-08 |
Series | Ironside | Unknown | 1967-03-28 |
Series | Judd for the Defense | Unknown | 1967-09-08 |
Movie | Fitzwilly | Oberblatz | 1967-12-20 |
Movie | The Graduate | Mr. McCleery | 1967-12-21 |
Series | Mannix | Unknown | 1967-09-16 |
Series | That Girl | Unknown | 1966-09-08 |
Series | The F.B.I. | Unknown | 1965-09-19 |
Movie | Quick, Before It Melts | George Snell | 1965-01-20 |
Movie | The Killers | Mickey Farmer | 1964-07-07 |
Movie | The Hanged Man | Gaylord Grebb | 1964-11-18 |
Series | Bewitched | Unknown | 1964-09-17 |
Series | The Lieutenant | Unknown | 1963-09-14 |
Movie | PT 109 | Edmund Drewitch | 1963-06-26 |
Series | The Fugitive | Unknown | 1963-09-17 |
Series | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Unknown | 1963-10-10 |
Series | Mr. Novak | Unknown | 1963-09-24 |
Movie | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Detective at Grogan's Crash Site | 1963-11-07 |
Series | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Unknown | 1963-10-04 |
Series | Sam Benedict | Unknown | 1962-09-15 |
Series | Cain's Hundred | Unknown | 1961-09-19 |
Series | 87th Precinct | Detective Meyer Meyer | 1961-09-25 |
Series | Ben Casey | Unknown | 1961-10-02 |
Series | Dr. Kildare | Unknown | 1961-09-27 |
Movie | Ocean's Eleven | Peter Rheimer | 1960-08-10 |
Movie | Inherit the Wind | WGN Radio Technician | 1960-07-07 |
Movie | The Rat Race | Telephone Repairman | 1960-07-10 |
Series | The Aquanauts | Unknown | 1960-09-14 |
Series | The Tom Ewell Show | Unknown | 1960-09-27 |
Movie | Pork Chop Hill | S/Sgt. Coleman | 1959-05-29 |
Series | Johnny Staccato | Unknown | 1959-09-10 |
Series | The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis | Unknown | 1959-09-29 |
Movie | What Makes Sammy Run? | Sammy's Brother | 1959-09-27 |
Series | Peter Gunn | Unknown | 1958-09-22 |
Series | Perry Mason | Unknown | 1957-09-21 |
Movie | The Violators | Ray | 1957-11-30 |
Series | Stanley | Nick | 1956-09-24 |
Series | Playwrights '56 | Unknown | 1955-10-04 |
Movie | Twelve Angry Men | Juror #1 / Foreman | 1954-09-20 |
Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |