Jean Stapleton

Also Credited As:

Jeanne Murray
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Biography

A lifelong character actress who achieved household-name status weathering the baleful verbal assaults of her linear-thinking TV husband Archie Bunker, Stapleton played the shrill-voiced Edith with such comic yet empathetic aplomb that she became an almost ironic light in the women's rights movement. She would build upon her social-minded legacy after the show ended by way of a 20-year, off-and-on succession of jobs playing the social activist …
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Job Title

Actor

Born

January 19, 1923

LATEST CREDITS

Eleanor, First Lady of the World

Eleanor Roosevelt

Angel Dusted

Betty Eaton

A Matter of Sex

Irene Wallin

Ghost Mom

Mildred Mallory

The Parallax Garden

Emilie

The Habitation of Dragons

Leonora Tolliver

Tender Places

Josephine

Isabel's Choice

Isabel Cooper

Aunt Mary

Aunt Mary Dobkin

The Boss

Edna

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

Mrs Piggle-Wiggle

Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme

Mother Goose

Marlo Thomas in Acts of Love -- and Other Comedies

Actor

All in the Family

Edith Bunker

Agatha Christie's "Dead Man's Folly"

Ariadne Oliver

Let Me Hear You Whisper

Helen

Bagdad Cafe

Jasmine

You Can't Take It With You

Penny Sycamore

Chance of a Lifetime

Irene's Mother

Fire in the Dark

Henny Dutton

The Trial

Landlady

All in the Family 20th Anniversary Special

Edith Bunker

You've Got Mail

Birdie

CBS: On the Air

Co-host

Grown Ups

Helen