Jean Stapleton
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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".
Known for
Credits
You've Got Mail (1998)
as Birdie Conrad
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)
as Mrs. Jenkins (voice)
Klute (1971)
as Goldfarb's Secretary
Dead Man's Folly (1986)
as Ariadne Oliver
Up the Down Staircase (1967)
as Sadie Finch
Michael (1996)
as Pansy Milbank
Cold Turkey (1971)
as Mrs. Wappler
Bells Are Ringing (1960)
as Sue
The Muppets Go Hollywood (1979)
as Self (uncredited)
The Last Laugh (2016)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Acts of Love and Other Comedies (1973)
as Gina's Mother
Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1990)
as Mother Goose
Gonzo Presents Muppet Weird Stuff (1985)
as Self
Fire in the Dark (1991)
as Henry Dutton
Aunt Mary (1979)
as Mary Dobkin
Something Wild (1961)
as Shirley Johnson
Lily Dale (1996)
as Mrs. Coons
Chance of a Lifetime (1998)
as Mrs. Dunbar
Bury Me in Niagara (1993)
as Mildred
Eleanor, First Lady of the World (1982)
as Eleanor Roosevelt
The Trial (1993)
as Landlady (uncredited)
Cinderella (1985)
as Fairy Godmother
The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air (2009)
as Self
You Can't Take it With You (1979)
as Penny Sycamore
Jack and the Beanstalk (1983)
as The Giantess
Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes (2001)
as Irene Silverman
A Matter of Sex (1984)
as Irene Wallin
Baby (2000)
as Byrd
The Buddy System (1984)
as Mrs. Price
The Habitation of Dragons (1992)
as Lenora Tolliver
Tail Gunner Joe (1977)
as Mrs. DeCamp
Damn Yankees (1958)
as Sister Miller
Those Were the Days: The Birth of "All in the Family" (2009)
as Self
Good Evening, Captain (1981)
as Self
Pursuit of Happiness (2001)
as Lorraine
All in the Family: 20th Anniversary Special (1991)
Actor
Isabel's Choice (1981)
as Isabel Cooper
Angel Dusted (1981)
as Betty Eaton
Something's Afoot (1982)
as Miss Tweed
Funny Ladies: A Portrait of Women Cartoonists (1991)
as Narrator