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Her first Broadway appearance following her departure from long-term TV series hits ("All in the Family" and "Archie Bunker's Place") was the comedy "Arsenic and Old Lace," alongside another actress (Polly Holliday) who was also trying to get some ... [on being identified with Edith] The first time I was on [the TV quiz show] "Hollywood Squares", I didn't get one question until the end. I assumed it was because they thought I was a dingbat. Thin frame
Jeanne Murray Died
May 31, 2013 (age 90) Height:5' 8" (1.73 m)
Actress Jean Stapleton, best known for her role as Archie Bunker's wife in the groundbreaking 1970s sitcom "All in the Family," has died, her son said Saturday. She was 90 years old. Her son John Putch told CNN about her passing and, along with his sister Pamela Putch, wrote an obituary saying that she "passed away peacefully of natural causes" on Friday at her New York City home "surrounded by friends and her immediate family." "No one gave more profound 'how to be a human being' lessons than Jean Stapleton," said Norman Lear, who produced and directed "All in the Family." "Goodbye Edith, darling." The daughter of an opera singer and businessman, Stapleton grew up on Long Island and in New York City. It was there during the early 1940s, while working as a typist for the British War Ministry Office, that she began her career in theater. Stapleton made it to Broadway in the production "In the Summer House" in 1953, the same year of her television debut on the daytime drama "Woman With a Past." Other big stage roles followed, including in "Bells Are Ringing" and "Damn Yankees." She also did more and more television, including appearances on shows such as "Philco TV Playhouse" and "Dr. Kildare." Her breakout role was as Edith Bunker, the conscience of "All in the Family" as the kindhearted foil to husband Archie, played by the late Carroll O'Connor. "All in the Family" was one of television's most popular shows as it broke ground while tackling a host of social issues such as racism, sexuality, life and death. Edith Bunker, played by Stapleton, for instance revealed that she had breast cancer on the show, a rare occurrence at the time. "I just loved doing it from the very beginning," Stapleton told CNN in 2001, shortly after O'Connor's death. She won three Emmy awards -- in 1971, 1972 and 1978, in addition to five other nominations in which he she fell short -- for her performance in that Lear-helmed show. "Jean was a brilliant comedienne with exquisite timing," said Rob Reiner, who played the Bunkers' son-in-law referred to as "Meathead" on the show. "Working with her was one of the greatest experiences of my life." Stapleton kept busy after the show went off in the air in 1979 and kept on racking up more accomplishments. Those include Emmy nominations in 1982 for playing Eleanor Roosevelt in the CBS miniseries "Eleanor, First Lady of the World" and in 1995 as Aunt Vivian in a guest spot on the ABC comedy "Grace Under Fire." "RIP Jean Stapleton," tweeted fellow TV comedy veteran Roseanne Barr, "a great actor whose range was unbelievable, deep and majestic." In 2002 she was chosen for the Television Academy Hall of Fame, joining the likes of Tim Conway and Bob Mackie in that organization's 15th induction class. Her most recent on-screen credits, according to the IMDB website, are from 2001 when she appeared in the film "Pursuit of Happiness" and the TV movie "Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes" along with Mary Tyler Moore. And after "All in the Family," she continued working in theater, including a nationwide tour as Roosevelt in her one-woman show "Eleanor: Her Secret Journey," the Broadway revival of "Arsenic and Lace" and Obie Award performances in Harold Pinter's "Mountain Language" and "The Birthday Party." Her final stage appearance was in "The Carpetbagger's Children" a few blocks from her home in New York, to which she returned permanently in 2002. Calling her "our collective Mother, with a capital M," John and Pamela Putch -- Stapleton's two children with her husband William Putch, whom she married in 1957 and who died in 1983 -- said "her devotion to her craft and her family taught us all great lessons." "In her own words, she was an 'actress,' not a celebrity," they wrote in her obituary. "The play always came first." NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actress Jean Stapleton, best known for her Emmy-winning role as the good-hearted housewife Edith Bunker in the groundbreaking 1970s television comedy “All in the Family,” has died at age 90, her family said on Saturday. Actress Jean Stapleton poses for photographers as she arrives for the premiere of the new comedy film "Michael" in Beverly Hills, California, in this December 19, 1996, file photo. REUTERS/Fred Prouser/Files Stapleton died on Friday of natural causes at her home in New York City, her son, film and television director John Putch, said in a statement. “It is with great love and heavy hearts that we say farewell to our collective Mother, with a capital M,” Putch and his sister, Pamela Putch, said in a joint statement. “Her devotion to her craft and her family taught us all great life lessons.” The actress won three Emmys, U.S. TV’s highest honor, for her role as Edith, the long-suffering, unsophisticated but understanding wife of the reactionary and often racist Archie Bunker, played by the late Carroll O’Connor, in the hit TV sitcom. “All in the Family,” inspired by the British program “Till Death Us Do Part,” was a success with audiences even as it helped usher in a new era for U.S. television by confronting contentious topics such as racism, the Vietnam War and the feminist movement. Archie, a working-class New Yorker, often clashed over politics and social issues with his adult daughter, Gloria, and his liberal son-in-law, Michael Stivic, whom he called “Meathead.” Edith spoke in a nasal, high-pitched voice, and seemed confused at times by the social changes going on around her. Her gentle nature contrasted with her husband’s mean streak. Although Archie often called her a “dingbat,” she patiently stood by him. In a nod to the generational conflict on display in the show, the program, aired on CBS, began with Archie and Edith at a piano singing the nostalgic “Those Were the Days.” “No one gave more profound ‘How to be a Human Being’ lessons than Jean Stapleton,” Norman Lear, the producer of “All in the Family,” said in a written statement released to Reuters. Film director Rob Reiner, who played Edith’s son-in-law, said in a statement to CBS News that Stapleton was “a brilliant comedienne with exquisite timing.” Stapleton appeared in “All in the Family” from 1971 to 1979, and continued her role for a time in the 1979 spinoff show “Archie Bunker’s Place.” MAKING EDITH FUNNYStapleton was born Jeanne Murray in New York in 1923 to an opera singer mother and a businessman father. She would later use her mother’s maiden name, Stapleton, as her stage name. She worked during World War Two as a typist for the British War Ministry Office in New York and made her professional stage debut in 1941. In the 1950s and 1960s, she acted in a number of Broadway productions, including a part in “Damn Yankees” that got Lear’s attention and her role in “All in the Family.” Sitting alongside O’Connor for a 2000 interview on the talk show “Donny & Marie,” Stapleton said she developed her nasal voice to play an oddball in “Damn Yankees” and decided to use it again in “All in the Family,” after behind-the-scenes work that saw Edith go from abrasive to daffy. “As we developed and found the characters, which was in the rehearsal process and which was very stimulating, very exciting and a learning process, as these elements came to us, something else developed,” Stapleton said. “And one was, I think I’ll use that nasal voice because it’s funny.” O’Connor, who died in 2001, said in the same interview that if Stapleton had followed the British version of the show and played Edith as sharp-tongued, the program would have been less successful. “She had to be what she created in order to make Archie work,” he said. After “All in the Family,” Stapleton played former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt in a 1982 television movie, and had a supporting role in the 1998 romantic comedy “You’ve Got Mail.” She maintained a lifelong love of the theater, and in 1990, received the Village Voice newspaper’s Obie Award for her performances in Harold Pinter’s Off-Broadway plays “Mountain Language” and “The Birthday Party.” She spent a number of years living and working in Los Angeles, but returned to her native New York in 2002 to live permanently. Stapleton is survived by her son and daughter. Her husband, William Putch, died in 1983. |
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