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Article: ACTOR NORMAN FELL OF `THREE'S COMPANY' TV SERIES DIES AT 74.(News)(Obituary)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 15, 1998
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Norman Fell, who played the irritable landlord Stanley Roper on the 1970s television sitcom ``Three's Company'' and in the spinoff series ``The Ropers,'' died yesterday of cancer. He was 74.
Fell died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's retirement home in Woodland Hills, a Los Angeles suburb, said Stan Schneider, his longtime business manager.
Among Fell's credits were the films ``The Graduate'' and ``Catch-22,'' and TV series including Burt Reynolds' 1970-75 detective drama ``Dan August.'' But it was the part of Stanley Roper he was most identified with, like it or not, Schneider said.
``I think he felt toward the end . . . it ...