Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton smiling at Emmy awards - Frank Trapper/Getty Images "All in the Family" made TV history but ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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Jean Stapleton, the woman who played Edith opposite Carroll O'Connor's Archie on All in the Family, continued to decline interviews Friday regarding O'Connor's death. "I treasured working with Carroll ...

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) medal owned by Jean Stapleton. Stapleton was an advocate for the failed constitutional amendment guaranteeing legal equality for all Americans regardless of sex. The ...

Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton smiling at Emmy awards - Frank Trapper/Getty Images "All in the Family" made TV history but after nine seasons as Edith Bunker, Jean Stapleton wanted to move on.

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.

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 ...