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Jean Stapleton, TV’s Edith Bunker, dies at 90

Jean Stapleton’s Edith Bunker was such a dithery charmer that we had to love her. And because she loved her bombastic husband Archie, we made room for him and TV’s daring “All in the Family.”

It took an actress as smart and deft as Stapleton to create the character that Archie called “dingbat,” giving a tender core to a sitcom that tested viewers with its bigoted American family man and blunt take on social issues.

Stapleton, 90, who died Friday, May 31, of natural causes at her New York City home, was the sweet, trusting counterpoint to Carroll O’Connor’s irascible Archie on the 1970s groundbreaking show from producers Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin. […]

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Sherman Hemsley of TV's "The Jeffersons" dies

From Media Reports günstige private haftpflichtversicherung EL PASO, Texas – Sherman Hemsley, who as George Jefferson ensured that black folks would never again be invisible on television, died Tuesday at his home on the eastside […]