
Jean Stapleton
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Biography
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

The Merv Griffin Show

Saturday Night Live

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Lux Video Theatre

E! True Hollywood Story

Robert Montgomery Presents

Tony Awards

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Dr. Kildare

The Carol Burnett Show

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

The Muppet Show

Touched by an Angel

Everybody Loves Raymond

The Philco Television Playhouse

Route 66

Cher

Murphy Brown

Dennis the Menace

The Love Boat

Faerie Tale Theatre

The Nurses

My Three Sons

The Defenders

Caroline in the City

The Eleventh Hour

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

The Ray Bradbury Theater

Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World

You've Got Mail

Lily Dale

The Buddy System

Beakman's World

Archie Bunker's Place

All in the Family

Bagdad Cafe

Good Evening Captain

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Woman With A Past
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