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 | 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 | 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 | The Bionic Woman | Unknown | 1976-01-14 |
Series | Charlie's Angels | Unknown | 1976-09-22 |
Movie | Guardian of the Wilderness | 1976-12-07 | |
Movie | Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours | Mr. Brockelman | 1976-10-27 |
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 | 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 |
Movie | The Stone Killer | Les Daniels | 1973-08-08 |
Series | Police Story | Unknown | 1973-03-20 |
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 |
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 |
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 | Bullitt | Captain Baker | 1968-10-17 |
Movie | The Young Runaways | Mr. Donford | 1968-09-11 |
Series | Ironside | Unknown | 1967-03-28 |
Series | Judd for the Defense | Unknown | 1967-09-08 |
Movie | Ghostbreakers | Lieutenant P. J. Hartunain | 1967-09-08 |
Movie | The Graduate | Mr. McCleery | 1967-12-21 |
Movie | Fitzwilly | Oberblatz | 1967-12-20 |
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 |
Series | Bewitched | Unknown | 1964-09-17 |
Movie | The Killers | Mickey Farmer | 1964-07-07 |
Movie | The Hanged Man | Gaylord Grebb | 1964-11-18 |
Series | The Fugitive | Unknown | 1963-09-17 |
Series | The Lieutenant | Unknown | 1963-09-14 |
Series | Mr. Novak | Unknown | 1963-09-24 |
Movie | PT 109 | Edmund Drewitch | 1963-06-26 |
Series | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Unknown | 1963-10-04 |
Movie | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Detective at Grogan's Crash Site | 1963-11-07 |
Series | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Unknown | 1963-10-10 |
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 | The Rat Race | Telephone Repairman | 1960-07-10 |
Movie | Inherit the Wind | WGN Radio Technician | 1960-07-07 |
Series | The Aquanauts | Unknown | 1960-09-14 |
Movie | Ocean's Eleven | Peter Rheimer | 1960-08-10 |
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 |