Norman Fell

Birthday: 24 March 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth Name: Norman Noah Feld

Height: 175 cm

Norman Fell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1924. He 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). His best known TV role was that of Stanley Roper, the landlord in the very popular Three's Company (1976), which debuted in 1977, and its short lived spin-off, The Ropers (1979).Norman Fell died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's retirement home in Woodland Hills CA, aged 74, survived by two daughters. Show less «

I was told, when I first started acting, that I had a face of a convicted sex pervert. One casting d...Show more »

I was told, when I first started acting, that I had a face of a convicted sex pervert. One casting director actually told me I looked like a child molester. Shows that you can make a career out of anything in Hollywood. Show less «

If I could do it all over again, I'd be the mailman. I love housewives and I hate dogs. What more is...Show more »

If I could do it all over again, I'd be the mailman. I love housewives and I hate dogs. What more is there? Show less «

They made a Mr. Roper doll. It looked nothing like me. Some people said it was too ugly, some people...Show more »

They made a Mr. Roper doll. It looked nothing like me. Some people said it was too ugly, some people said it was too good looking. Show less «

I liked [Dean Martin] and [Sammy Davis Jr.] and [Frank Sinatra]. They were great. [Joey Bishop] and ...Show more »

I liked [Dean Martin] and [Sammy Davis Jr.] and [Frank Sinatra]. They were great. [Joey Bishop] and [Peter Lawford] were creeps. Bishop kept looking at me funny when I changed. Don't get me started on Lawford. Show less «

[interview in Prevu magazine, #13, 4/88] This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me ever...Show more »

[interview in Prevu magazine, #13, 4/88] This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember. Show less «

Hollywood sucks. I've got the bruises to prove it.

When I tell people the movies I did, they don't believe me. I tell them I did Ocean's Eleven (1960),...Show more »

When I tell people the movies I did, they don't believe me. I tell them I did Ocean's Eleven (1960), they laugh at me. I tell them I did Bullitt (1968), they call me a liar. By the time I get around to telling them I was in The Graduate (1967), they're on the phone calling the nut house. Show less «

I've been in Hollywood for over 40 years. I've worked on over 100 shows and movies. But I'm famous f...Show more »

I've been in Hollywood for over 40 years. I've worked on over 100 shows and movies. But I'm famous for being a homophobic, perverted, leering, dirty old man who peeps on young girls and verbally abuses his wife. When I die, they're going to say "Mr. Roper died." They won't even use my real name. Show less «

I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.

[on rival Jack Klugman] What has he got that I haven't got? What did he do differently? I could have...Show more »

[on rival Jack Klugman] What has he got that I haven't got? What did he do differently? I could have killed as Oscar. I would have been great as Quincy. I wouldn't have been so hammy. Klugman overacted every scene. You want the show to be good, pick me. You want a chain-smoking jackass who ruins any credibility for your project, I'll give you Klugman's number. Show less «

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