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. She was 90.
"All in the Family" made TV history but after nine seasons as Edith Bunker, Jean Stapleton wanted to move on. This wasn't terrific news for CBS entertainment executive Robert Daly, who was hoping for ...
As Edith, Stapleton took on the thorniest of social issues, from race to feminism. She said that humor had a way of reducing intolerance to nothing. Jean Stapleton, best known for her iconic role as ...