NORMAN FELL BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
 
Norman Fell was born on March 24th, 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with the birth name Norman Feld.  After graduating from Central High School in Philadelphia, he went on to study at Temple University and earned a bachelors degree in drama.  He took a break from pursuing a career as an actor during World War II where he was an Air Force tail gunner.
 
Upon completing his military service, Fell went back to pursuing a career as an actor by first studying more acting in New York City and found work on stage and small roles on television.  It did not take him to long to get cast in his first recurring role on the television series, "Joe & Mabel" (1956).
 
In 1958 he relocated to Hollywood, California He became most well known for his role as, Stanley Roper on the television show, "Three's Company" (1976) which won him a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor.  The show was later made into a spin off for another series called, "The Roppers" (1979-1980).  He was also nominated for an Emmy for his role in the series, "Rich Man, Poor Man" (1976). 
 
Throughout his career he appeared in more then twenty made for television movies and had some small roles in such feature films as, "Ocean's Eleven" (1960) starring Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin, "It's a Mad Mad Mad World", "PT 109" (1963), "The Graduate" (1967), "Bullitt" (1968) starring Steve McQueen, "Catch-22" and "The Killers".
 
Other series he added to his resume with guest roles were, "F.B.I", "Ironside", "Police Story", "Murder, She Wrote", "The Fresh Price of Bel-Air" and his final role on, "Ellen" (1997).
 
Norman married three times throughout his lifetime.  With his first wife he had two daughters and after he divorced he married, Diane Weiss from 1961 through 1973.  He then married Karen Weingard in 1975 and they adopted one son, but this marriage to ended in 1995.  He passed away on December 14th, 1998 in Woodland Hills, California at the age of seventy four at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's Retirement Home after suffering from cancer.  His remains are interred at Mount Sinai Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California.   

Filmography

1998 Life with Louie
1998 Beach House
1997 Ellen 
1996 The Destiny of Marty Fine 
1995 Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare 
1994 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 
1993 The Naked Truth 
1993 Flying Blind 
1993 Hexed 
1991 For the Boys 
1991 The Boneyard 
1991 With Friends Like These... 
1990 1st & Ten: The Championship
1990 Good Grief
1990 You're Driving Me Crazy
1989 The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! 
1989 The Boys
1989 C.H.U.D. II - Bud the Chud 
1989 Hooperman 
1988 The Munsters Today 
1985-1988 Murder, She Wrote
1987 Sledge Hammer!
1987 Out of This World
1987 Matlock 
1987 Stripped to Kill
1987 Magnum, P.I. 
1986 The Twilight Zone 
1985-1986 Crazy Like a Fox 
1986 Webster
1985 Simon & Simon
1985 Transylvania 6-5000
1984 The Jesse Owens Story 
1984 Don't Ask Me, Ask God
1982-1983 Teachers Only
1983 Uncommon Valor 
1982 Matt Houston 
1981 Paternity 
1981 Heartbreak High 
1976-1981 Three's Company 
1981 On the Right Track 
1980 For the Love of It 
1980 This Year's Blonde 
1979-1980 The Ropers 
1980 Getting There 
1979 Roots: The Next Generations 
1978 The Love Boat 
1978 The End
1978 Rabbit Test 
1977 Charlie's Angels
1977 The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
1974-1977 Police Story 
1976 Guardian of the Wilderness 
1976 Executive Suite
1976 Switch 
1976 Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours
1976 The Streets of San Francisco
1976 The Bionic Woman
1976 Risko
1976 Rich Man, Poor Man
1976 Ellery Queen
1975 Starsky and Hutch
1975 Cannon
1975 Fay 
1975 Rhoda 
1975 Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
1975 Lucas Tanner
1975 McMillan & Wife 
1975 Death Stalk 
1974 Airport 1975 
1974 Thursday's Game 
1974 Medical Center 
1973-1974 Needles and Pins 
1973 Griff 
1973 Charley Varrick
1973 The Stone Killer
1973 Going Places 
1973 Marcus Welby, M.D. 
1972 McCloud 
1972 The Heist 
1969-1972 Love, American Style
1972 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury 
1971 The Good Life 
1971 The Partridge Family 
1970-1971 Dan August 
1970 The Boatniks
1970 Catch-22
1970 Double Jeopardy
1969 Three's a Crowd 
1967-1969 Ironside 
1969 The Name of the Game 
1969 If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
1965-1969 The F.B.I.
1968 Judd for the Defense
1968 Bullitt
1968 The Young Runaways
1968 Sergeant Ryker
1968 The Secret War of Harry Frigg
1968 That Girl
1967 The Graduate
1967 Fitzwilly
1967 Mannix
1967 I Spy
1967 Ghostbreakers
1967 The Young Warriors
1967 The Invaders 
1966-1967 Insight 
1966 Bewitched 
1966 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1964-1966 12 O'Clock High 
1966 A Man Called Shenandoah 
1966 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 
1966 The Wild Wild West
1965 The Fugitive
1965 Dr. Kildare 
1965 The Trials of O'Brien 
1965 Mr. Novak
1964-1965 Ben Casey 
1964 The Hanged Man 
1964 Quick Before It Melts 
1964 The Killers
1964 Suspense 
1964 The Defenders 
1963 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1963 East Side/West Side 
1963 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 
1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963 The Lieutenant
1963 Kraft Mystery Theater 
1963 PT 109
1963 The Dick Powell Theatre
1963 The Lloyd Bridges Show
1963 The Eleventh Hour
1962 Sam Benedict 
1961-1962 87th Precinct 
1961 Cain's Hundred 
1961 Checkmate
1961 The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1961 The Aquanauts 
1961 Peter Gunn 
1961 The Tab Hunter Show
1961 The Law and Mr. Jones
1960 The Tom Ewell Show
1960 The Untouchables
1960 Ocean's Eleven 
1960 The Rat Race
1960 Inherit the Wind
1960 Perry Mason 
1960 Johnny Staccato
1959 Sunday Showcase
1959 Pork Chop Hill 
1959 Hallmark Hall of Fame
1957 The Violators 
1956 The United States Steel Hour 
1956 Joe & Mabel
1956 Playwrights '56 
1956 Star Tonight
1956 The Alcoa Hour
1954 The Elgin Hour
1954 Studio One in Hollywood 
1954 The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse 
1954 Goodyear Playhouse