Cause of death Cancer Name Norman Fell Occupation Actor | Other names Norman N. Fell Role Actor | |
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Full Name Norman Noah Feld Born March 24, 1924 ( 1924-03-24 ) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Resting place Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemeteryin Los Angeles Residence Los Angeles, California Died December 14, 1998, Woodland Hills, California, United States Spouse Karen Weingard (m. 1975–1995), Diane Weiss (m. 1961–1973) Awards Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television Movies and TV shows Similar People Audra Lindley, Joyce DeWitt, Richard Kline, Priscilla Barnes, Don Knotts |
Norman fell
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 Mr. Roper on the sitcom Three's Company and its spin-off, The Ropers.
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Early life
Fell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 24, 1924, to Samuel and Edna Feld. Samuel was a restaurateur and the family lived at 416 South 4th Street. He attended Central High School of Philadelphia. He studied drama at Temple University after serving as a tail gunner on a B-25 Mitchell in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He later honed his craft at The Actors Studio.
Career
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Aside from Fell's best-known television work, he also played minor character roles in several films, including the original Ocean's 11, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, PT 109, The Graduate, Bullitt and Catch-22 (as Sergeant Towser). He appeared alongside Ronald Reagan in Reagan's last film, The Killers.
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From 1961 to 1962, he portrayed Meyer Meyer in the TV series Ed McBain's 87th Precinct.
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From 1977 to 1979, he portrayed the main characters' hardnosed landlord Stanley Roper on the hit sitcom Three's Company (a role with some similarities to Mr. McCleery in The Graduate). He continued the role as the co-lead with Audra Lindley playing his wife, Helen, on The Ropers, a spin-off which lasted a year.
He 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.
Death
During Thanksgiving (USA) in 1998, Fell had become too weak to get out of bed at his Marina del Rey home. He was rushed to the hospital where he was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer. He died in Los Angeles on December 14, 1998 at the age of 74. He was interred at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery.