Shortly after leaving her career-defining role as sweet but naïve Edith Bunker on All in the Family, actor Jean Stapleton was offered another role of a lifetime. She opted out of that series, and ...

Character actress Jean Stapleton, who died May 31 at age 90, worked for half a century in theater, television, and movies, but by far her most memorable role was as Edith Bunker, who helped introduce ...

Susan Stamberg remembers an evening onstage with Jean Stapleton. Jean Stapleton, who won three Emmys for playing Edith Bunker on All In The Family, died Friday. NPR's Susan Stamberg offers this ...

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 ...

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, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The collection consists of papers documenting Stapleton's long career in film, on stage, and on screen. Contents include correspondence from fans ...

Norman Lear has helped define the American television sitcom as we know it today. With his pulse on the ever-changing landscape, Lear had hoped to launch a sitcom about a working-class family in the ...

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 ...