Jean Stapleton

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Jan 19, 1923 (102 years old)
Death date
May 31, 2013

Jean Stapleton

Known For

The Last Laugh
1h 29m
Movie 2016

The Last Laugh

Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, and the implications for other seemingly off-limits topics in a society that prizes free speech.

Those Were the Days: The Birth of
0h 27m
Movie 2009

Those Were the Days: The Birth of "All in the Family"

DVD featurette documenting the beginnings of "All in the Family"

The Television Revolution Begins:
0h 31m
Movie 2009

The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air

DVD featurette documenting the success of "All in the Family".

Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes
1h 30m
Movie 2001

Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes

The real-life case based on the horrific crimes of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the mother and son duo who specialized in theft, fraud and murder.

Pursuit of Happiness
1h 33m
Movie 2001

Pursuit of Happiness

An advertising executive fails to realize that the woman of his dreams is his best friend since first grade, now married to his cheating co-worker.

Baby
1h 33m
Movie 2000

Baby

A couple finds a baby on their doorstep with a note asking them to temporarily keep it. They take the baby in and care for it as if it were their own. But what if the baby's mom really returns to claim it?

You've Got Mail
1h 59m
Movie 1998

You've Got Mail

Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.

Michael
1h 45m
Movie 1996

Michael

Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.

Lily Dale
1h 38m
Movie 1996

Lily Dale

In 1910, 19-year-old Horace Robedaux, still bitter toward his stepfather, goes to Houston to be reunited with his mother, Corella, and his sister, Lily Dale, following a long estrangement. He has not seen either since he was 12 because his wicked stepfather, Pete Davenport (whom his mother married after his father drank himself to death) believes a boy ought to be self-reliant.

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
TV Show 1994

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

A colorful woman helps cure kids of improper behavior, such as telling fibs, neglecting pets and talking back to their elders.

Biography

Jean Stapleton was born Jeanne Murray in Manhattan, New York City, to Marie A. (Stapleton), an opera singer, and Joseph Edward Murray, a billboard advertising salesman. Her paternal grandparents were Irish. She was a cousin of actress Betty Jane Watson. Other relatives in show business were her uncle, Joseph E. Deming, a vaudevillian; and her brother Jack Stapleton, a stage actor. She graduated from Wadleigh High School, NYC, in 1939, and attended Hunter College. She worked as a secretary before becoming an actress. Stapleton made her stage debut at the Greenwood Playhouse, Peaks Island, Maine, in the summer of 1941, and her New York stage debut in "The Corn Is Green" (1948). She appeared on Broadway in the musicals "Damn Yankees" (1955) and "Bells Are Ringing" (1956), and later repeated her roles in the movie versions (Damn Yankees (1958) and Bells Are Ringing (1960)). Her other Broadway roles included the original companies of "Rhinoceros" (1961) and "Funny Girl" (1964). Stapleton also played Abby Brewster in the 1986-87 revival of "Arsenic and Old Lace".

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