Jean Stapleton made occasional appearances on the All in the Family follow-up series Archie Bunker's Place, but asked to be written out of the show during the first season due to becoming tired of the role.
30 Facts About Jean Stapleton
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Jean Stapleton's uncle was a vaudevillian performer, and her brother was a stage actor who inspired her to pursue acting as well.
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Jean Stapleton began her career in 1941 aged 18 in summer stock theatre and made her New York debut in the Off-Broadway play American Gothic.
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Jean Stapleton was featured on Broadway in several hit musicals, such as Funny Girl, Juno, Damn Yankees and Bells Are Ringing, recreating her parts from the latter two musicals in the film versions of Damn Yankees and Bells Are Ringing.
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In 1962, Jean Stapleton guest-starred as Mrs Larsen in "The Hidden Jungle", an episode of the TV series The Defenders, alongside her future All in the Family co-star Carroll O'Connor.
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Jean Stapleton appeared in the feature films Something Wild, Up the Down Staircase, Klute and the Norman Lear comedy Cold Turkey.
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Jean Stapleton bested both Mary Tyler Moore and Marlo Thomas for the "Best Actress in a Comedy" Primetime Emmy award on May 9,1971.
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Jean Stapleton's best known role, as Edith in All in the Family, began in 1971.
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Jean Stapleton played the title role in the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie, Aunt Mary, which detailed the true story of Baltimore children's advocate Mary Dobkin.
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In 1982, Jean Stapleton portrayed Eleanor Roosevelt in the TV movie Eleanor, First Lady of the World, focusing on the subject's later life.
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Jean Stapleton co-starred in the film The Buddy System, alongside Susan Sarandon and Richard Dreyfuss, and played Ariadne Oliver in the 1986 television adaptation of Dead Man's Folly, opposite Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot.
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Jean Stapleton declined the role of Jessica Fletcher in the TV series Murder, Jean Stapleton Wrote, which went to Angela Lansbury.
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From 1990 to 1991, Jean Stapleton co-starred with Whoopi Goldberg in 15 episodes of Bagdad Cafe, the television series based on the movie of the same name.
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In 1994, Jean Stapleton played the role of Mrs Piggle-Wiggle in a children's series of the same name based on the books by Betty MacDonald.
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In 1996, Jean Stapleton appeared in the educational series Beakman's World as Beakman's mother, Beakmom, and appeared on Everybody Loves Raymond playing Ray's imperious aunt.
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Jean Stapleton voiced John Rolfe's maid, Mrs Jenkins, in Disney's 1998 direct-to-video animated film Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World, and appeared in the film You've Got Mail as a close co-worker in whom Meg Ryan's character confides.
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From 1998, Jean Stapleton took her "Eleanor" characterization to live theaters, now adapted as a one-woman show.
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In May 2000, Jean Stapleton appeared in "Mother's Day", an episode of the TV series Touched by an Angel, portraying an angel named Emma who came to help Celine who was taking care of her late best friend's mother.
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Jean Stapleton's final acting role was as Irene Silverman in the 2001 fact-based TV movie, Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes, starring Mary Tyler Moore as convicted criminal Sante Kimes.
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Jean Stapleton was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2002.
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Jean Stapleton was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame that same year.
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Jean Stapleton was married to William Putch from 1957 until his death in 1983.
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Jean Stapleton performed regularly at the theatre with the resident company.
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Jean Stapleton was unrelated to actress Maureen Stapleton, contrary to a common misconception.
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Jean Stapleton supported Walter Mondale's campaign in the 1984 presidential election, was a vocal supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment, and took an active role in the 1977 National Women's Conference.
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Jean Stapleton rarely appeared on talk shows, but reunited on-camera with Carroll O'Connor on Donny and Marie Osmond's show on April 24,2000, a little over a year before O'Connor's death.
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Jean Stapleton admitted that she seldom watched All in the Family, but by 2000 she reconsidered, she told the Archive of American Television.
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Jean Stapleton died at her apartment in Manhattan on May 31,2013, at age 90.
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Jean Stapleton was a Christian Scientist who didn't say or think a negative thing.
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Jean Stapleton is buried at Lincoln Cemetery in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.