NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

The actress didn’t attain stardom until she was nearly 50 years old, when the Norman Lear CBS sitcom became a hit. By Duane Byrge, Mike Barnes Jean Stapleton, known to millions of viewers as the ...

(CNN) -- Actress Jean Stapleton, best known for her role as Archie Bunker's wife in the groundbreaking 1970s TV sitcom "All in the Family," has died, her son said Saturday. She was 90 years old.

The Dingbat is dead. Jean Stapleton endeared herself to millions as Edith, the long-suffering, ditsy wife of Archie Bunker on the groundbreaking series "All In The Family." Archie was a bigot, a ...

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.

LOS ANGELES -- Jean Stapleton's Edith Bunker was such a dithery charmer that we had to love her. And because she loved her bombastic husband Archie, we made room for him and TV's daring "All in the ...