1923Born, Manhattan
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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…
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You've Got MailBirdie
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New WorldMrs. Jenkins (voice)
MichaelPansy Milbank
Everybody Loves RaymondAunt Alda
KluteGoldfarb's Secretary2004TV Land Top 101 episodeShow
2003TV Land Awards: A Celebration of Classic TV1 episodeShow
2001Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny KimesIrene SilvermanMovie
2001Pursuit of HappinessLorraineMovie
2000BabyByrdMovie
1998You've Got MailBirdieMovie
1998Pocahontas II: Journey to a New WorldMrs. Jenkins (voice)Movie
1998Chance of a LifetimeMrs. DunbarMovie
1998Style & SubstanceGloria Utley · 1 episodeShow
1996MichaelPansy MilbankMovie
1996Everybody Loves RaymondAunt Alda · 1 episodeShow
1996E! True Hollywood Story1 episodeShow
1996Lily DaleMrs. CoonsMovie
1995Caroline in the CityAunt Mary Kosky · 1 episodeShow
1994Touched by an AngelEmma · 1 episodeShow
1994Mrs. Piggle-WiggleMrs. Piggle-Wiggle · 13 episodesShow
1993Bury Me in NiagaraMildredMovie
1993Grace Under Fire1 episodeShow
1993The TrialLandlady (uncredited)Movie
1992Beakman's WorldBeakman's Mom · 1 episodeShow
1992The Habitation of DragonsLenora TolliverMovie
1992Shelley Duvall's Bedtime StoriesNarrator (voice) · 1 episodeShow
1991Fire in the DarkHenry DuttonMovie
1991Funny Ladies: A Portrait of Women CartoonistsNarratorMovie
1991All in the Family: 20th Anniversary SpecialMovie
1991The General Motors Playwrights TheaterEmilie · 1 episodeShow
1990Mother Goose Rock 'n' RhymeMother GooseMovie
1990Bagdad CafeJasmine Zweibel · 15 episodesShow
1988Murphy Brown1 episodeShow
1987Trying Times1 episodeShow
1986Dead Man's FollyAriadne OliverMovie
1985CinderellaFairy GodmotherMovie
1985The Ray Bradbury Theater1 episodeShow
1984The Buddy SystemMrs. PriceMovie
1984A Matter of SexIrene WallinMovie
1983Scarecrow and Mrs. King2 episodesShow
1983Jack and the BeanstalkThe GiantessMovie
1982Something's AfootMiss TweedMovie
1982Faerie Tale TheatreThe Giantess, The Fairy Godmother · 1 episodeShow
1982Eleanor, First Lady of the WorldEleanor RooseveltMovie
1981Isabel's ChoiceIsabel CooperMovie
1981Angel DustedBetty EatonMovie
1979Aunt MaryMary DobkinMovie
1979You Can't Take it With YouPenny SycamoreMovie
1977Tail Gunner JoeMrs. DeCampMovie
1973Acts of Love and Other ComediesGina's MotherMovie
1971The Electric Company1 episodeShow
1971KluteGoldfarb's SecretaryMovie
1971Cold TurkeyMrs. WapplerMovie
1971All in the FamilyEdith Bunker · 210 episodes · Theme Song Performance · 210 episodesShow
1967Up the Down StaircaseSadie FinchMovie
1963The Patty Duke Show1 episodeShow
1962The Eleventh Hour1 episodeShow
1962The NursesMrs. Montgomery · 1 episodeShow
1961Something WildShirley JohnsonMovie
1961Dr. KildareNurse Whitney · 1 episodeShow
1961The DefendersMrs. Larsen · 1 episodeShow
1960Route 661 episodeShow
1960My Three Sons1 episodeShow
1960Bells Are RingingSueMovie
1959Dennis the Menace1 episodeShow
1958Naked CityMarilyn Konish, Mrs. Trellis · 1 episodeShow
1958Damn YankeesSister MillerMovie
1954Woman With A Past110 episodesShow
1951Hallmark Hall of FameMary Dobkin · 1 episodeShow
1950Lux Video TheatreTeacher · 1 episodeShow
1950Robert Montgomery Presents1 episodeShow
1948The Philco Television PlayhouseBus Girl · 1 episodeShow
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