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 ...

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.

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 ...

Satirical political campaign button printed with slogan "Be Dead From the Neck Up. Vote Bunker." The button references a signature insult levied by Archie Bunker on the television program All in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Stapleton died Friday of natural causes at her New York City home surrounded by friends and family, her son, John Putch, said Saturday. Little known to the public before All In the Family, she ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jean Stapleton, who played Edith Bunker in the groundbreaking 1970s TV comedy "All in the Family," has died. She was 90. John Putch says Saturday that his mother died Friday of natural ...