The off-camera demise of Jean Stapleton's Edith was the most heartbreaking moment in Archie Bunker's Place, but Carroll O'Connor thought it had to be done.
NEW YORK - Jean Stapleton, the stage-trained character actress who played Archie Bunker's far better half, the sweetly naive Edith, in TV's groundbreaking 1970s comedy "All in the Family," has died.