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Norman Fell (born Norman Noah Feld; March 24, 1924 – December 14, 1998) was an American actor of film and television, most famous for his role as landlord Stanley Roper on the sitcom Three's Company and its spin-off, The Ropers, and his film roles in Ocean's 11 (1960), The Graduate (1967), and Bullitt (1968). Early in his career, he was billed as Norman Feld. Norman Feld Internet Broadway Database.
series Needles and Pins, 1973. Bottom, from left: Deirdre Lenihan, Fell. Top, from left: Bernie Kopell, Sandra Deel, and Louis Nye.]]On TV, Fell portrayed Mike in Joe and Mabel (1955–1956), Howie Fletcher in The Tom Ewell Show (1960–1961), Meyer Meyer in 87th Precinct (1961–1962), Charles Wilentz in Dan August (1970–1971), Nathan Davidson in Needles and Pins (1973), Bernie Solkin in Executive Suite (1976–1977), Richie's father in Richie Brockelman, Private Eye (1978), and Ben Cooper in Teachers Only (1982–1983).
From 1977 to 1979, Fell portrayed the main characters' landlord Stanley Roper on the hit sitcom Three's Company (a role with some similarities to hard-edged, suspicious landlord Mr. McCleery in The Graduate, who was on the lookout for reasons to evict Benjamin Braddock, like Mr. Roper was with Jack Tripper). He continued the role as the co-lead with Audra Lindley playing his wife, Helen, on The Ropers, a spin-off which lasted two seasons, airing from 1979 to 1980.
Fell won a Golden Globe Award for Best TV Actor in a Supporting Role in 1979 for Three's Company. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his dramatic performance as the boxing trainer of Tom Jordache (Nick Nolte) in the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. His final television appearance was a cameo as Mr. Roper on an episode of the sitcom Ellen in 1997.
| "Twelve Angry Men" (TV episode; teleplay) |
| Archive footage |
| Direct-to-video |
| Shepard |
| Season 1 Episode 5: "Hearts and Hollywood" |
| (1) Season 6 Episode 18: "A Criminal Design" (2) Season 7 Episode 1: "Twelve Angry Men" |
| Season 6 Episode 17: "Miss Look-Alike" |
| Season 3 Episode 11: "The Huntress" |
| (1) Season 7 Episode 17: "Grandma Rolled Her Own" (2) Season 7 Episode 28: "Dominique" |
| Season 1 Episode 13: "Finkle's Comet" |
| (1) Season 1 Episode 1*: "Joe's Bankbook" (aired June 26) (2) Season 1 Episode: "The Line-Up" (aired July 10) (3) Season 1 Episode 11*: "Mabel's Voice" (aired September 4) (4) Episode: "Mabel's Legacy" (aired September 18) * Episodes were first produced in 1955 but were thrown out, with CBS starting completely over in 1956. See show homepage for details. |
| Season 2 Episode 39: "Faith and Patience" |
| Season 1 Episode 19: "Nick and Letty" |
| Season 4 Episode 7: "Hunted" |
| Season 9 Episode 40: "Love Me to Pieces" |
| TV movie: "Ah, Wilderness!" |
| Season 1 Episode 17: "The Man in the Pit" |
| Season 3 Episode 17: "The Case of the Mythical Monkeys" |
| Season 2 Episode 1: "The Rusty Heller Story" |
| (1) Season 1 Episode 4: "Tom Takes Over" (2) Season 1 Episode 6: "The Second Phone" (3) Season 1 Episode 7: "The Handwriting on the Wall" (4) Season 1 Episode 8: "The Spelling Bee" (5) Season 1 Episode 11: "Salesmanship Lesson" |
| Season 1 Episode 18: "Lethal Weapons" |
| Season 1 Episode 23: "Me and My Shadow" |
| Season 3 Episode 20: "A Kill and a Half" |
| Season 1 Episode 25: "The Rainbow Adventure" |
| Season 2 Episode 31: "Be It Ever So Humble" |
| Season 1 Episode 34: "Hot Wind in a Cold Town" |
| Season 1 Episode 13: "Final Judgment: "Alexander Marish" |
| Regular cast (30 episodes) |
| Season 1 Episode 15: "Where There's a Will" |
| Season 1 Episode 22: "Five Moments Out of Time" |
| (1) Season 1 Episode 25: "Gym in January" (2) Season 1 Episode 26: "Sheridan Square" |
| Season 2 Episode 28: "The Last of the Big Spenders" |
| Season 1 Episode 2: "Cool of the Evening" |
| (1) Season 1 Episode 1: "The Case Against Paul Ryker: Part 1" (2) Season 1 Episode 2: "The Case Against Paul Ryker: Part 2" |
| Season 1 Episode 9: "Not Bad for Openers" |
| Season 2 Episode 9: "The Dividing Wall" |
| Season 3 Episode 23: "Moment of Truth" |
| TV movie |
| (1) Season 3 Episode 18: "I'll Get on My Ice Floe and Wave Goodbye" (1964) (2) Season 4 Episode 15: "Where Does the Boomerang Go?" (1965) |
| (1) Season 1 Episode 14: "An Act of War" (1964) (2) Season 3 Episode 7: "The All-American" (1966) |
| Season 2 Episode 29: "And Then I Wrote..." |
| Season 1 Episode 9: "How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?" |
| (1) Season 4 Episode 31: "A Reverence for Life" (2) Season 5 Episode 20: "Fathers and Daughters" (3) Season 5 Episode 21: "A Gift of Love" (4) Season 5 Episode 22: "The Tent Dwellers" (5) Season 5 Episode 23: "Going Home" |
| (1) Season 2 Episode 25: "May God Have Mercy" (2) Season 3 Episode 12: "Stranger in the Mirror" |
| (1) Season 1 Episode 11: "All the Streets Are Silent" (1965) (2) Season 3 Episode 27: "The Mercenary" (1968) (3) Season 4 Episode 22: "The Catalyst" (1969) |
| Season 1 Episode 20: "The Night of the Whirring Death" |
| Season 2 Episode 23: "The Moonglow Affair" |
| Season 1 Episode 24: "Muted Fifes, Muffled Drums" |
| Season 4 Episode 7: "Dear Deductible" |
| Season 3 Episode 10: "I'd Rather Twitch Than Fight" |
| Season 1 Episode 11: "The Betrayed" |
| TV movie |
| Season 3 Episode 4: "The Medarra Block" |
| Season 1 Episode 10: "Coffin for a Clown" |
| (1) Season 1 Episode 6: "An Inside Job" (1967) (2) Season 3 Episode 7: "Seeing Is Believing" (1969) |
| Season 2 Episode 19: "Sixty-Five on the Aisle" |
| Season 2 Episode 5: "The Sound of the Plastic Axe" |
| Season 2 Episode 2: "A Hard Case of the Blues" |
| TV movie |
| (1) Season 1 Episode 9 (Segment: "Love and the Good Deal") (1969) (2) Season 4 Episode 8 (Segment: "Love and the Clinic") (1972) |
| TV movie |
| 26 episodes |
| Season 2 Episode 4: "The Undergraduate" |
| Season 1 Episode 22: "Operation – Smokescreen" |
| TV movie |
| Season 3 Episode 3: "The Park Avenue Rustlers" |
| Season 4 Episode 20: "Catch a Ring That Isn't There" |
| TV movie |
| Regular cast (14 episodes) |
| Season 1 Episode 10: "Hammerlock" |
| Season 5 Episode 22: "The World's Balloon" |
| TV movie |
| (1) Season 2 Episode 8: "Wolf" (1974) (2) Season 4 Episode 19: "One of Our Cops is Crazy" |
| TV movie |
| Season 4 Episode 6: "Love, Honor and Swindle" |
| Season 1 Episode 19: "The Noise of a Quiet Weekend" |
| (1) Season 1 Episode 21: "" (2) Season 2 Episode 3: "" |
| Season 5 Episode 15: "The Games Children Play" |
| Season 1 Episode 15: "Shootout" |
| Mini-Series (1) Season 1 Episode 3: Part III: Chapter 5" (2) Season 1 Episode 4: "Part IV: Chapter 6" (3) Season 1 Episode 5: "Part V: Chapter 7" (4) Season 1 Episode 9: "Part VIII: Chapters 11 and 12" Emmy Award (nominated) |
| Season 1 Episode 19: "The Adventure of the Tyrant of Tin Pan Alley" |
| TV movie; Unsold TV Pilot |
| Season 2 Episode 2: "In This Corner, Jaime Sommers" |
| (1) Season 5 Episode 1: "The Thrill Killers: Part 1" (2) Season 5 Episode 2: "The Thrill Killers: Part 2" |
| TV movie |
| Season 2 Episode 7: "Gaffing the Skim" |
| Season 1 Episode 10: "Re: The Sounds of Silence" |
| 56 episodes; Golden Globe Award (won) |
| Season 1 Episode 7: "The Redemption of Ben" |
| Season 2 Episode 1: "Angels in Paradise" |
| Season 2 Episode 3: "Julie's Dilemma/Who's Who/Rocky" |
| Mini-Series Season 1 Episode 7: "Part VII (1960–1967)" |
| 28 episodes |
| TV movie |
| TV movie |
| TV movie |
| Season 1 Episode 9: "Joey's Here" |
| 21 episodes |
| TV movie |
| TV movie |
| Season 5 Episode 11: "Facets" |
| (1) Season 2 Episode 7: "Some Day My Prints Will Come" (1985) (2) Season 2 Episode 22: "A Fox at the Races" (1986) |
| (1) Season 2 Episode 8: "Dead Heat" (1985) (2) Season 4 Episode 19: "Just Another Fish Story" (1988) |
| Season 3 Episode 21: "Almost Home" |
| Season 2 Episode 6: "The Convict's Piano" |
| Season 7 Episode 15: "" |
| Season 1 Episode 24: "The Doctors" |
| Season 1 Episode 3: "The Nightmare" |
| Season 2 Episode 13: "They Call Me Mr. Trunk" |
| (1) Season 1 Episode 1: "Gene's Problem" (1988) (2) Season 1 Episode 2: "Some Don't Like It Hot" (1989) (3) Season 1 Episode 5: "Friar's Club" (1989) (4) Season 1 Episode 8: "Labor Day" (1989) |
| Season 2 Episode 16: "Dog Day Afternoon, Morning and Night" |
| (1) Season 1 Episode 25: "Fred Van Winkle" (2) Season 1 Episode 44: "Texas Tea" |
| Season 1 Episode 7: "The Good, the Bad and the Mariachis" |
| Season 1 Episode 14: "Panic in Neil's Park" |
| Season 5 Episode 2: "What's Will Got to Do With It?" |
| TV movie |
| Season 3 Episode 3: "Bully for Dave" |
| Season 5 Episode 3: "Roommates" |
| Season 3 Episode 11: "Blinded by Love" (voice) |
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