CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Collection documents Stapleton's long stage, film, and television career, as well as her philanthropic activities. These materials consist ...

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 died ...

Every '70s sitcom has a similar domestic set up: the curmudgeonly father, sweet-natured wife and troublesome tots or teens. But Jean Stapleton brought a little extra sparkle to the screen, often ...

NEW YORK - Jean Stapleton, the stage-trained character actress who played Archie Bunker's far better half, the sweetly naive Edith, in TV's groundbreaking 1970s comedy "All in the Family," has died.

Since the show wrapped, many of the sitcom's stars — including Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton and Rob Reiner — have died Though their characters were often at odds with each other on screen, off it, ...

February 2018 marks the 70th Anniversary of the professional debut of Jean Stapleton (1923 to 2013) at the Equity Library Theater in New York City. This month, the museum received a donation from the ...

Stapleton's son, John Putch, confirmed her death to ABC News Saturday. Stapleton died Friday of natural causes at her home in New York City surrounded by friends and family. Stapleton's family ...

Jean Stapleton was born Jeanne Murray in Manhattan, New York City, to Marie A. (Stapleton), an opera singer, and Joseph Edward Murray, a billboard advertising salesman. Her paternal grandparents were ...

NEW YORK – Jean Stapleton, the stage-trained character actress who played Archie Bunker’s far better half, the sweetly naive Edith, in TV’s groundbreaking 1970s comedy “All in the Family,” has died.