2018-05-31

Jean Stapleton

    Edith and Archie Bunker from All in the Family
Jean Stapleton was one of those standards from my childhood. All in the Family was a series on the teevee which my father had pretty much taken to and watched regularly, meaning that we all sat and watched it with him.

Born Jeanne Murray, she was an American actress who graced stage, television, and film.

Among those elements of an immense body of work, she portrayed Edit Bunker, wife of Archie Bunker and gave that character a certain child like innocence abd wonder yet retained that firm grasp on life and living.

There were many lessons from what she imparted to the presentations covering the full spectrum of both emotions and social awareness to her performances.

She passed on this day in 2013 and the world will be hard pressed to replace her in those dramatis personae of which she was so integral a character actress.