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.

Filmography

• 2011Underground Entertainment: The Movie — Norman (archive footage)
• E! True Hollywood Story
• 1996The Destiny of Marty Fine — Daryl
• 1995Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare — Grandpa Joe Dooley
• The Naked Truth — Norman Fell
• 1993Hexed — Herschel Levine
• The Ben Stiller Show
• 1992The Naked Truth — The Dentist
• 1991For the Boys — Sam Schiff
• 1991The Boneyard — Shepard
• 1991With Friends Like These... — Narrator (voice)
• 1991You're Driving Me Crazy — Doctor 'F'
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air — The Landlord
• 1989C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud — Tyler
• The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! — Ted Bull
• Murphy's Law
• 1987Stripped to Kill — Ray
• It's Garry Shandling's Show — Norman Fell
• Matlock — Norman Radburn
• Sledge Hammer! — Doctor
• The Twilight Zone
• 1985Transylvania 6-5000 — Mac Turner
• 1st & Ten — Artie
• Crazy like a Fox — Inspector Peyton
• 1984Don't Ask Me, Ask God — Jonesey
• Murder, She Wrote — Vince Shackman, Lt. Ralph Rupp
• 1984The Jesse Owens Story — Marty Forkins
• 1983Uncommon Valor — Garvin
• Matt Houston
• Teachers Only — Principal Ben Cooper
• 1981On the Right Track — The Mayor
• 1981Paternity — Larry
• Simon & Simon — Leo Nyquist
• 1981The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats — Jack McGuire
• 1980Dan August: Once Is Never Enough — Sgt. Charles Wilentz
• 1980Dan August: The Jealousy Factor — Sgt. Charles Wilentz
• 1980For the Love of It — Hall
• Magnum, P.I. — David Albertson
• 1980This Year's Blonde — Pat Toledo
• Roots: The Next Generations — Paul Reynolds
• The Ropers — Stanley Roper
• 1978Rabbit Test — Segoynia's Father
• 1978The End — Dr. Samuel Krugman
• Grizzly Adams — Mitch Morgan
• The Love Boat — Bill McCoy
• Three's Company — Stanley Roper
• Charlie's Angels — Sammy Telford
• 1976Guardian of the Wilderness
• Rich Man, Poor Man — Smitty
• 1976Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours — Mr. Brockelman
• The Bionic Woman
• 1975Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold — Stanly Nagel
• 1975Death Stalk — Frank Cody
• Ellery Queen — Errol Keyes
• Fay
• Starsky & Hutch
• Switch — Marty
• 1974Airport 1975 — Bill
• Rhoda — Dr. Henry Gerber
• 1974Thursday's Game — Melvin Leonard
• 1973Charley Varrick — Mr. Garfinkle
• Needles and Pins — Nathan Davidson
• Police Story
• 1973The Stone Killer — Les Daniels
• 1972The Heist — Pat Dillon
• The Streets of San Francisco — Juror
• Cannon
• McMillan & Wife — Allan Kovacs
• 1970Catch-22 — First Sgt. Towser
• Dan August — Sgt. Charles Wilentz
• McCloud — Lt. Ed Feldman
• 1970The Boatniks — Max
• The Partridge Family — Mr. Bruner
• 1969If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium — Harve Blakely
• Love, American Style — Jack 'J.K.' Lewis
• Medical Center
• 1969Three's a Crowd — Norman, the Elevator Operator
• 1968Bullitt — Captain Baker
• 1968Sergeant Ryker — Sgt. Max Winkler
• The Name of the Game — Winston Polk
• 1968The Secret War of Harry Frigg — Captain Stanley
• 1968The Young Runaways — Mr. Donford
• 1967Fitzwilly — Oberblatz
• 1967Ghostbreakers — Lieutenant P. J. Hartunain
• Ironside — Lieutenant Haines
• Judd, for the Defense
• Mannix — Daniel Brewer
• 1967The Graduate — Mr. McCleery
• The Invaders — Neal Taft
• 1967The Young Warriors — Sgt. Wadley
• That Girl
• 1965Quick, Before It Melts — George Snell
• The F.B.I. — Ted Cullinan, Ken Haney, Victor Green
• The Wild Wild West — Jeremiah Ratch
• Bewitched
• 1964The Hanged Man — Gaylord Grebb
• 1964The Killers — Mickey Farmer
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — Mark Slate
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre — Eddie Carr
• 1963It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World — Detective at Grogan's Crash Site
• Kraft Suspense Theatre — Sgt. Max Winkler
• Mr. Novak — Barney Sanders
• 1963PT 109 — Edmund Drewitch
• The Fugitive — Lieutenant Ed Green, Lieutenant Cermak
• The Lieutenant
• Sam Benedict
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Al Norman
• The Lloyd Bridges Show — Mel Baxter
• 87th Precinct — Detective Meyer Meyer
• Ben Casey — Manny Berger
• Cain's Hundred — Frank Driscoll
• Dr. Kildare — Dr. Keith Mayes, Arnold Vitnack
• The Defenders — George Capp
• 1960Inherit the Wind — WGN Radio Technician
• 1960Ocean's Eleven — Peter Rheimer
• The Aquanauts — Oliver Pappas
• 1960The Rat Race — Telephone Repairman
• The Tab Hunter Show
• The Tom Ewell Show
• Johnny Staccato
• 1959Pork Chop Hill — S/Sgt. Coleman
• The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis — Dr. Caul
• 1959What Makes Sammy Run? — Sammy's Brother
• Peter Gunn
• Perry Mason — Caspar Pedley
• 1957The Violators — Ray
• Stanley — Nick
• Playwrights '56
• 1954Twelve Angry Men — Juror #1 / Foreman
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Wint Selby
• Studio One — Juror #1 / Foreman, Jake

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 1991Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' — Self
• 1982Magic with the Stars — Self
• 1979Pat Boone and Family: A Christmas Special — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self