. . . Where Are They Now? . . .Hello fans, Happy new year! I hope that 2012 has started out well for everyone. Today, we are going to catch up with Jean Stapleton, who is best known for playing Edith Bunker on the sitcom All in the Family. What has she been up to since starring on the popular show? Where is she now?
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View Past Issues: Where Are They Now Achives*--DEAD OR ALIVE?--See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":
Jacques Tati: French film director known for his comedic works (in which he also appeared) about man and modern technology, films include "Mon Oncle" and "Playtime"
JoBeth Williams: She's appeared in "Poltergeist", "The Big Chill", "Kramer vs. Kramer", "Switch" and other movies
Sandra Dee: Starred in "Gidget", "A Summer Place", and other "teen" movies, known for her celebrity marriage to Bobby Darin
(Answer at the bottom)*Jean StapletonLearn More About Jean Stapleton on Celebrity Nooz BIRTH DATE: January 19, 1923, New York, New York
BIRTH NAME: Jeanne Murray
CLAIM TO FAME: She is best known for her portrayal of Edith Bunker on the 1970s situation comedy All in the Family.
FAMILY LIFE: She was married to William H. Putch (1956-1983; his death) and they have two children together: actor/writer/director John Putch and actress Pamela Putch.
INFO: Stapleton's career began when she was 18 doing summer stock, and she made her debut in an off Broadway play called American Gothic. She appeared in a number of several hit Broadway musicals including Damn Yankees, Funny Girl, Bells Are Ringing, and Juno.
She had roles on television in Starlight Theater, Robert Montgomery Presents, Lux Video Theater, Woman with a Past, The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse, Dr. Kildare, Dennis the Menace and Naked City. In 1982, she played Eleanor Roosevelt in a television production of the First Lady's later life, a role that she later took to live theaters.
She went on to appear in made-for-TV movies and feature films, and had a recurring role on TV's Scarecrow and Mrs. King as a British spy. She appeared in the educational series Beakman's World as Beakman's mother, "Beakmom." She appeared in such films as Nora Ephron's hit Michael and the 1998 feature You've Got Mail, and guest starred on TV series including Everybody Loves Raymond and Murphy Brown.
In the 1990s, she appeared on the children's series Piggle Wiggle as the title character. The show was based on the books by Betty MacDonald, and was created by Shelley Duvall. Stapleton also did some work on video games, providing the voice of Grandma Ollie on KinderActive, Turner Pictures, and New Line Cinema's venture "Grandma Ollie's Morphabet Soup." She was also the voice of John Rolfe's maid Mrs. Jenkins in Disney's 1998 direct-to-video animated film Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World.
TRIVIA: Her brother, Jack Stapleton, was a stage actor. Her cousin is actress Betty Jane Watson.
She attended Hunter College.
Ran Totem Pole Playhouse, a Summerstock Theatre, in Caledonia State Park, outside Chambersburg, PA.
Was offered a role in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), but turned it down to work on the pilot of "All in the Family" (1968).
Was offered the role of Jessica Fletcher on "Murder, She Wrote" (1984), but declined.
Her awards for All in the Family include three Emmys and two Golden Globes.
WHERE IS SHE NOW: Her last role was alongside Mary Tyler Moore in "Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes" (2001). Stapleton played the role of a wealthy socialite who Moore's character manipulates her son to murder.
She continued to be involved in social affiliations, such as her role as long-running chair of Women's Research & Education Institute, a group focused on issues affecting women.
Today, she is retired from acting, but she does today does "tweet" to fans on a Twitter account (@jeanstapleton).
WRITE TO JEAN STAPLETON: Jean Stapleton
c/o Bauman, Hiller and Associates
5757 Wilshire Blvd. 5th Flr
Los Angeles, CA 90036
* CREDITS:2001 Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes (TV movie)...Irene Silverman
2001 Pursuit of Happiness...Lorraine
2000 Baby (TV movie)...Byrd
2000 Touched by an Angel (TV series)...Emma
Mother's Day
1998 You've Got Mail...Birdie Conrad
1998 Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (video)...Mrs. Jenkins (voice)
1998 Chance of a Lifetime (TV movie)...Mrs. Dunbar
1998 Style & Substance (TV series)...Gloria Utley
A Recipe for Disastery
1996 Michael...Pansy Milbank
1996 Everybody Loves Raymond (TV series)...Aunt Alda
I Wish I Were Gus
1979-1996 Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV series)...Mary Dobkin / Mrs. Coons
Lily Dale
Aunt Mary
1996 Murphy Brown (TV series)...Nana Silverberg
All in the Family
1996 The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (TV series)...Edith Wilson
War Without End
1995-1996 Beakman's World (TV series)...Beakman's Mom
1995 Caroline in the City (TV series)...Aunt Mary Kosky
Caroline and the Opera
1994 Grace Under Fire (TV series)...Aunt Vivian
The Road to Paris, Texas
1994 Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (TV series)...Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
The Pet Forgetters Cure
1993 Ghost Mom (TV movie)...Mildred
1993 The Trial...Landlady (uncredited)
1993 The General Motors Playwrights Theater (TV series)
The Parallax Garden (1993)
1992 The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV series)...Grandma
Fee Fie Foe Fum
1992 The Habitation of Dragons (TV movie)...Lenora Tolliver
1992 Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories (TV series)...Narrator
Elizabeth and Larry/Bill and Pete
1991 Fire in the Dark (TV movie)...Henny
1990-1991 Bagdad Cafe (TV series)...Jasmine Zweibel
1990 Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (TV movie)...Mother Goose
1990 American Playwrights Theater: The One-Acts (TV series)...Helen
Let Me Hear You Whisper
1989 Trying Times (TV series...Edna
The Boss
1987 Tender Places (TV movie)...Sam
1986 The Love Boat (TV series)...Helen Branigan
Egyptian Cruise: Part 1
Egyptian Cruise: Part 2
1986 Dead Man's Folly (TV movie)...Ariadne Oliver
1985 Great Performances (TV series)...Helen
Grown-Ups
1983-1985 Faerie Tale Theatre (TV series)...Fairy Godmother / The Ogre's Wife
Cinderella (1985)...Fairy Godmother
Jack and the Beanstalk (1983)...The Ogre's Wife
1984 Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV series)...Lady Emily Farnsworth
The Three Faces of Emily
The Legend of Das Geisterschloss
1984 The Buddy System...Mrs. Price
1984 A Matter of Sex (TV movie)...Irene
1984 Something's Afoot (TV movie)...Miss Tweed
1983 Parade of Stars (TV movie)
1982 Eleanor, First Lady of the World (TV movie)...Eleanor Roosevelt
1981 Isabel's Choice (TV movie)...Isabel Cooper
1981 Angel Dusted (TV movie)...Betty Eaton
1979 Archie Bunker's Place (TV series)...Edith Bunker
1979 You Can't Take It with You (TV movie)...Penny Sycamore
1968-1979 All in the Family (TV series)...Edith Bunker / Edith Justice / Judith Klammerstadt
1977 Tail Gunner Joe (TV movie)...Mrs. DeCamp
1976 The Muppet Show (TV series)
Episode #1.6 (1976)
1973 Acts of Love and Other Comedies (TV movie)...Gina's Mother
1971 Klute...Goldfarb's Secretary
1971 Cold Turkey...Mrs. Wappler
1967 Up the Down Staircase...Sadie Finch
1965 The Patty Duke Show (TV series)...Mrs. Pollack
The Raffle
1964 My Three Sons (TV series)...Molly Dunbar
The People's House
1963 Route 66 (TV series)...Mrs. Snyder
93 Percent in Smiling
1963 The Eleventh Hour (TV series)...Rosa Criley
The Bride Wore Pink
1961-1963 Naked City (TV series)...Marilyn Konish / Mrs. Ferguson / Mrs. Trellis
The Highest of Prizes
The Multiplicity of Herbert Konish
Bullets Cost Too Much
1962 Car 54, Where Are You? (TV series)...Mrs. Duggan
Je T'Adore Muldoon
1962 The Defenders (TV series)...Mrs. Larsen
The Hidden Jungle
1962 Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine (TV series)...Nagging Wife
Episode #1.5 (1962) â?¦ Nagging Wife
1962 The Doctors and the Nurses (TV series)...Mrs. Montgomery
The Barbara Bowers Story
1962 Dennis the Menace (TV series)...Mrs. Flora Davis
Mr. Wilson's Housekeeper
1961 Something Wild...Shirley Johnson
1961 Dr. Kildare (TV series)...Nurse Whitney
The Patient
1960 Bells Are Ringing...Sue
1958 Damn Yankees!...Sister Miller
1955 The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse (TV series)
A Business Proposition (1955)
1954 Woman with a Past (TV series)...Gwen
1953 Lux Video Theatre (TV series)...Teacher
A Time for Heroes
1952 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV series)
Storm (1952)
1951 Starlight Theatre (TV series)...The Woman
The Come-Back (1951)
To see Then & Now pictures of Jean Stapleton, visit: Celebrity Nooz*--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--Jacques Tati - DEAD (Pneumonia)
Born: 10/09/1908 Died: 11/04/1982
JoBeth Williams - ALIVE
Born: 12/06/1948
Sandra Dee - DEAD (Kidney disease)
Born: 04/23/1942 DEAD: 02/20/2005
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Kerry McGregor, 37, British singer and reality contestant (The X Factor), bladder cancer.
Bobby McKenzie, 83, Australian football player.
Carmen Naranjo, 83, Costa Rican novelist, poet and essayist, cancer.
Hisako Oishi, 75, Japanese politician.
Mitch Shirota, 78, American racehorse trainer and jockey.
1/3Gene Bartow, 81, American college basketball coach (UAB, UCLA), stomach cancer.
Robert L. Carter, 94, American civil rights activist (Sweatt v. Painter) and judge, complications from a stroke.
Willi Entenmann, 68, German football player and coach, heart attack.
Gatewood Galbraith, 64, American lawyer and author, complications from chronic emphysema.
Enrique de Melchor, 61, Spanish flamenco guitarist, cancer.
Stepan Oshchepkov, 77, Russian canoeist, Olympic gold medalist (1964).
Josef Skvorecky, 87, Czech writer and publisher, cancer.
Vicar, 77, Chilean cartoonist.
Yadid Rubin, 74, Israeli painter.
1/2Ian Bargh, 76, British-born Canadian jazz pianist, lung cancer.
Ivan Calin, 76, Moldovan politician, Acting President of the Moldovan Parliament (2009).
William P. Carey, 81, American businessman (W. P. Carey & Co.) and philanthropist.
Ioan Dragan, 46, Romanian footballer (FC Bra?ov), colorectal cancer.
Odin Fottoh, 73, Tajik composer.
Vivi Friedman, 44, Finnish film director.
Yoshihiro Hayashi, 89, Japanese golfer.
Gordon Hirabayashi, 93, American civil rights activist (Hirabayashi v. United States).
Jim Huber, 67, American sports commentator (CNN, TNT).
Anatoly Kolesov, 73, Russian wrestler, Olympic gold medalist (1964), after long illness.
Larry Reinhardt, 63, American rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly, Captain Beyond).
1/1Gary Ablett, 46, English footballer (Liverpool, Everton, Birmingham City), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Bob Anderson, 89, British Olympic fencer (1952), film fight director and choreographer (Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings).
Alfredo Battisti, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Udine (1972â??2000).
Jorge Andres Boero, 38, Argentine motorcycle racer, Dakar rally crash.
Anders Frandsen, 51, Danish singer and television presenter.
Jean-Marc de Grijs, 41, Belgian football official, after short illness.
Kiro Gligorov, 94, Macedonian politician, President (1991-1999).
Hermann Guggiari, 87, Paraguayan engineer and sculptor.
Frank Horwill, 84, British athletics coach.
Ed Jenkins, 78, American politician, Representative from Georgia (1977-1993).
Fred Milano, 72, American doo-wop singer (The Belmonts, Dion and the Belmonts), lung cancer.
Nina Miranda, 86, Uruguayan tango singer and composer.
Carlos Soria, 62, Argentine politician, Secretary of
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Yafa Yarkoni, 86, Israeli singer.