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. She was 90.

Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton smiling at Emmy awards - Frank Trapper/Getty Images "All in the Family" made TV history but after nine seasons as Edith Bunker, Jean Stapleton wanted to move on.

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 ...

It’s been over four decades since ‘All in the Family’ ended its run on CBS, and the groundbreaking sitcom became known not only for tackling social issues through comedy but also for launching major ...