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Jun 2, 2013 · NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actress Jean Stapleton, best known for her Emmy-winning role as the good-hearted housewife Edith Bunker in the groundbreaking 1970s television comedy "All in the Family," has ...
Jun 2, 2013 · To most television viewers in the 1970s, Jean Stapleton was the working class housewife ditz with the screechy New York voice who put up with a domineering, bigoted husband – brilliantly and ...
Jean Stapleton, a close friend of O'Connor's since the early 1960s, was unable to attend the service because of a commitment for a stage performance. [30] O'Connor's best friend Larry Hagman and his family attended the funeral, along with the surviving cast of In the Heat of the Night , including Alan Autry and Denise Nicholas .
Jean Stapleton (1923-2013) says of All in the Family's approach to topical issues, "There's nothing like humor to burst what seems to be an enormous problem. Humor reduces it to nothing and wipes it out. That's what humor does. That was a great part of that show in terms of every issue, but especially bigotry. And you know you make fun of something, it reduces it to nothing." In her two-hour ...
Jun 2, 2013 · Jean Stapleton, who died Friday at the age of 90, was 48 when she became famous as Edith Bunker in “All in the Family.” By the time that landmark sitcom premiered in 1971, she had been acting ...
Jun 2, 2013 · Jean Stapleton, a seasoned stage and film actress who found lasting fame as the dimwitted and big-hearted wife of Archie Bunker on the 1970s social sitcom "All in the Family," died May 31 at her ...
Jun 1, 2013 · Jean Stapleton portrays First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on her progression from socialite wife to activist and feminist in Rhoda Lerman’s one-woman play “Eleanor: Her Secret Journey” in 2000.
