Jean Stapleton, beyond Edith Bunker: a devoted theater actress

To most television viewers in the 1970s, Jean Stapleton was the working class housewife ditz with the screechy New York voice who put up with a domineering, bigoted husband – brilliantly and hilariously, and with a kind of love for stagecraft, andIt's not easy playing dumb. But Jean Stapleton, who died on Friday in Manhattan at 90, did it spectacularly for more than 200 episodes of “All in the Family,” a watershed television show that never would have worked without her daft, poignant portrayalJean Stapleton, known to millions of viewers as the lovable Edith Bunker on the classic CBS sitcom All in the Family, died Friday of natural causes at her home in New York City, her family announced. She was 90. our editor recommends. 'All in thestapleton.jpg The Totem Pole Playhouse issued a statement on the death of Jean Stapleton, accompanied by this photo of the late actress.

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