Archie Bunker’s favourite nickname for his loving however long-suffering spouse Edith might have been “dingbat.” However devoted All within the Household viewers knew that Edith was hardly a pushover. And neither was Jean Stapleton, the Manhattan-born character actress turned sitcom star who performed her.
Stapleton performed Edith for 9 seasons, incomes three Emmys and two Golden Globes, and constructing a spine quiet energy and deep ethical conviction into the sweetly naive Queens housewife who doted on her foul-mouthed, blue-collar husband (Carroll O’Connor) and the couple’s solely little one, Gloria (Sally Struthers). However she nervous that, because the sequence entered later seasons and Edith endured each most cancers and an tried rape, Edith was changing into a bit too world weary. And Stapleton was changing into a bit too Edith Bunker.