Norman Fell

Acting · Born 1924-03-24 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

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…

Filmography

• Bullitt as Captain Baker
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as Detective at Grogan's Crash Site
• Charley Varrick as Mr. Garfinkle
• The Graduate as Mr. McCleery
• Inherit the Wind as WGN Radio Technician
• Ocean's Eleven as Peter Rheimer
• Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold as Stanly Nagel
• Rabbit Test as Segoynia's Father
• The Heist as Pat Dillon
• The Killers as Mickey Farmer

TV

• Sledge Hammer!
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as The Landlord
• The Twilight Zone
• Three's Company as Stanley Roper
• Perry Mason as Caspar Pedley
• Bewitched
• Murder, She Wrote as Vince Shackman
• Magnum, P.I. as David Albertson
• The Ben Stiller Show
• Cain's Hundred as Frank Driscoll