Jean Stapleton Jean Stapleton Jean Stapleton (born Jeanne Murray; January 19, 1923 – May 31, 2013) was an American character actress of stage, television, and film. Stapleton is best known for having portrayed Edith Bunker, the long-suffering yet devoted wife of Archie Bunker, on the 1970s sitcom "All in the Family". Stapleton was a three-time recipient of the Prime Time Emmy Award for leading actress in a comedy series and won two Golden Globes in the same category during the show's airing. She also made occasional appearances on the "All in the Family" follow-up series "Archie Bunker's Place", but asked to be
Tony Connor Tony Connor John Anthony Connor (born 1930) is an English poet and playwright. Tony Connor was born in Manchester, England. After leaving school at 14, he served in the Royal Army as a tank gunner, and worked as a textile designer between 1944 and 1960, and in radio and television in Manchester in the 1960s. He was a founder member of The Peterloo Group. He earned an MA at the University of Manchester in 1967 and in 1968 visiting writer at Amherst College in Massachusetts. From 1971 until he retired in 1999 Connor was professor of English at Wesleyan University