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 Woodland Hills CA, aged 74, survived by two daughters.
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The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats
The Jesse Owens Story
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Sledge Hammer!
Bewitched
Twelve Angry Men
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Inherit the Wind
Perry Mason
Three's Company
The Graduate
The Wild Wild West
Murder, She Wrote
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Roots: The Next Generations
Magnum, P.I.
Starsky & Hutch
Charley Varrick
The Fugitive
McCloud
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
It's Garry Shandling's Show.
Matlock
Bullitt
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Bionic Woman
Police Story
The Streets of San Francisco
McMillan & Wife
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Partridge Family
Ironside
The Killers
Mannix
The Rat Race
Simon & Simon
Charlie's Angels
Catch-22
Pork Chop Hill
Peter Gunn
For the Boys
Ocean's Eleven
1st & Ten
The Love Boat
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
The Stone Killer
Fitzwilly
That Girl
The Secret War of Harry Frigg
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