Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1923-01-19
Day of Death
2013-05-31
Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Jean Stapleton
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".
Filmography (41)
The Last Laugh
2016
The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air
2009
Those Were the Days: The Birth of "All in the Family"
2009
Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes
2001
Pursuit of Happiness
2001
Pursuit of Happiness
2001
Baby
2000
You've Got Mail
1998
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
1998
Chance of a Lifetime
1998
Michael
1996
Lily Dale
1996
Bury Me in Niagara
1993
The Trial
1993
