Norman Fell
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.
Movies
Underground Entertainment: The Movie
Norman (archive footage)
The Destiny of Marty Fine
Daryl
Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare
Grandpa Joe Dooley
Hexed
Herschel Levine
The Naked Truth
The Dentist
For the Boys
Sam Schiff
The Boneyard
Shepard
You're Driving Me Crazy
Doctor 'F'
With Friends Like These...
Narrator (voice)
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
Tyler
Stripped to Kill
Ray
Transylvania 6-5000
Mac Turner
The Jesse Owens Story
Marty Forkins
Don't Ask Me, Ask God
Jonesey
Uncommon Valor
Garvin
Magic with the Stars
Paternity
Larry
The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats
Jack McGuire
On the Right Track
The Mayor
Dan August: The Jealousy Factor
Sgt. Charles Wilentz
For the Love of It
Hall
This Year's Blonde
Pat Toledo
Dan August: Once Is Never Enough
Sgt. Charles Wilentz
The End
Dr. Samuel Krugman
Rabbit Test
Segoynia's Father
Guardian of the Wilderness
Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours
Mr. Brockelman
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
Stanly Nagel
Death Stalk
Frank Cody
Airport 1975
Bill
Thursday's Game
Melvin Leonard
Charley Varrick
Mr. Garfinkle
The Stone Killer
Les Daniels
The Heist
Pat Dillon
The Boatniks
Max
Catch-22
First Sgt. Towser
Three's a Crowd
Norman, the Elevator Operator
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Harve Blakely
Bullitt
Captain Baker
The Young Runaways
Mr. Donford
The Secret War of Harry Frigg
Captain Stanley
Sergeant Ryker
Sgt. Max Winkler
The Graduate
Mr. McCleery
Fitzwilly
Oberblatz
Ghostbreakers
Lieutenant P. J. Hartunain
The Young Warriors
Sgt. Wadley
Quick, Before It Melts
George Snell
The Hanged Man
Gaylord Grebb
The Killers
Mickey Farmer
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Detective at Grogan's Crash Site
PT 109
Edmund Drewitch
Ocean's Eleven
Peter Rheimer
The Rat Race
Telephone Repairman
Inherit the Wind
WGN Radio Technician
What Makes Sammy Run?
Sammy's Brother
Pork Chop Hill
S/Sgt. Coleman
The Violators
Ray
Twelve Angry Men
Juror #1 / Foreman
TV Series
E! True Hollywood Story
1 Episode
The Naked Truth
Norman Fell
1 Episode
The Ben Stiller Show
1 Episode
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Landlord
1 Episode
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
1 Episode
Murphy's Law
1 Episode
Sledge Hammer!
1 Episode
It's Garry Shandling's Show
Norman Fell
1 Episode
Matlock
Dr. Norman Radburn
1 Episode
The Twilight Zone
1 Episode
Crazy like a Fox
Inspector Peyton
2 Episodes
1st & Ten
Artie
1 Episode
Murder, She Wrote
Vince Shackman
1 Episode
Matt Houston
1 Episode
Teachers Only
Principal Ben Cooper
23 Episodes
Simon & Simon
1 Episode
Magnum, P.I.
David Albertson
1 Episode
The Ropers
Stanley Roper
28 Episodes
Roots: The Next Generations
Paul Reynolds
1 Episode
The Love Boat
Bill McCoy
1 Episode
Three's Company
Stanley Roper
76 Episodes
Grizzly Adams
Mitch Morgan
1 Episode
Charlie's Angels
Sammy Telford
2 Episodes
Rich Man, Poor Man
Smitty
12 Episodes
The Bionic Woman
1 Episode
Ellery Queen
Errol Keyes
1 Episode
Starsky & Hutch
1 Episode
Switch
Marty
1 Episode
Fay
1 Episode
Rhoda
1 Episode
Needles and Pins
Nathan Davidson
14 Episodes
Police Story
2 Episodes
The Streets of San Francisco
1 Episode
McMillan & Wife
Allan Kovacs
1 Episode
Cannon
1 Episode
The Partridge Family
Mr. Bruner
1 Episode
Dan August
Sgt. Charles Wilentz
26 Episodes
McCloud
Lt. Ed Feldman
1 Episode
Love, American Style
Jack 'J.K.' Lewis
1 Episode
Medical Center
1 Episode
The Name of the Game
Winston Polk
1 Episode
Mannix
1 Episode
Judd for the Defense
1 Episode
Ironside
1 Episode
The Invaders
Neal Taft
1 Episode
That Girl
1 Episode
The F.B.I.
Ted Cullinan
1 Episode
The Wild Wild West
Jeremiah Ratch
1 Episode
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Mark Slate
1 Episode
Bewitched
1 Episode
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Sgt. Max Winkler
2 Episodes
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Eddie Carr
1 Episode
Mr. Novak
Barney Sanders
1 Episode
The Fugitive
Lieutenant Ed Green
1 Episode
The Lieutenant
1 Episode
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Al Norman
1 Episode
Sam Benedict
1 Episode
The Lloyd Bridges Show
Mel Baxter
1 Episode
Ben Casey
1 Episode
Dr. Kildare
Dr. Keith Mayes
1 Episode
87th Precinct
Detective Meyer Meyer
30 Episodes
Cain's Hundred
Frank Driscoll
1 Episode
The Defenders
George Capp
1 Episode
The Tom Ewell Show
1 Episode
The Tab Hunter Show
1 Episode
The Aquanauts
Oliver Pappas
1 Episode
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Dr. Caul
1 Episode
Johnny Staccato
1 Episode
Peter Gunn
1 Episode
Perry Mason
Caspar Pedley
1 Episode
Stanley
Nick
6 Episodes
Playwrights '56
1 Episode
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Wint Selby
1 Episode
Studio One
Juror #1 / Foreman
1 Episode