Seeing Archie deal with the death of his wife, Edith Bunker, in the All in the Family spinoff, Archie Bunker's Place, changed ...

It was November 2, 1980, when viewers were stunned by the unthinkable. After eight seasons of watching Archie Bunker ( Carroll O’Connor) and his wife Edith ( Jean Stapleton) share a loving, if often ...

The "All in the Family" episode "Archie's Brief Encounter" initially aired as a one-hour special, as it dealt with some pretty heavy subject matter. Notably, it was the episode wherein it looked like ...

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 ...

Character actress Jean Stapleton, who died May 31 at age 90, worked for half a century in theater, television, and movies, but by far her most memorable role was as Edith Bunker, who helped introduce ...

She worked on ‘The Jeffersons, ‘Gloria’ and lots of other Norman Lear shows. Her husband was DGA luminary Jack Shea. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Shea died April 12 of natural causes on her birthday ...

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 ...