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 ...

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 ...

Archie Bunker’s favorite nickname for his loving but long-suffering wife Edith may have been “dingbat.” But devoted All in the Family viewers knew that Edith was hardly a pushover. And neither was ...

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, ...

Seeing Archie deal with the death of his wife, Edith Bunker, in the All in the Family spinoff, Archie Bunker's Place, changed how some fans perceived the character In real life, actress Jean Stapleton ...

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 — 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.

Little known to the public before All In the Family, she co-starred with Carroll O’Connor in the top-rated CBS sitcom about an unrepentant bigot, the wife he churlishly but fondly called “Dingbat,” ...

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.

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.