Jean Stapleton
Age: N/A | From: Manhattan, New York, US
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Manhattan, New York, US
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 25
TV Involvements: 14
Most Famous Work
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".
Most Famous Work
Tony Awards
(1956) Self - Presenter
Lux Video Theatre
(1950) Teacher
Dr. Kildare
(1961) Nurse Whitney
The Philco Television Playhouse
(1948) Bus Girl
The Defenders
(1961) Mrs. Larsen
Naked City
(1958) Mrs. Trellis
Intimate Portrait
(1993) Self
Faerie Tale Theatre
(1982) The Fairy GodmotherActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Self | |
| 2009 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 2004 | N/A | |
| 2003 | N/A | |
| 2001 | Irene Silverman | |
| Lorrraine | ||
| Lorraine | ||
| 2000 | Byrd | |
| 1998 | Birdie Conrad | |
| Mrs. Jenkins (voice) | ||
| Mrs. Dunbar | ||
| Gloria Utley | ||
| 1996 | Pansy Milbank | |
| Aunt Alda | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| Mrs. Coons | ||
| 1995 | N/A | |
| 1994 | Emma | |
| Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | ||
| 1993 | Self | |
| Mildred | ||
| N/A | ||
| Landlady (uncredited) | ||
| 1992 | Beakman's Mom | |
| Lenora Tolliver | ||
| 1991 | Henry Dutton | |
| Narrator | ||
| 1990 | Mother Goose | |
| N/A | ||
| 1988 | N/A | |
| 1987 | N/A | |
| 1986 | Ariadne Oliver | |
| 1985 | Fairy Godmother | |
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1984 | Mrs. Price | |
| Irene Wallin | ||
| 1983 | N/A | |
| The Giantess | ||
| 1982 | The Giantess | |
| The Fairy Godmother | ||
| Eleanor Roosevelt | ||
| 1981 | Isabel Cooper | |
| Betty Eaton | ||
| 1979 | Mary Dobkin | |
| N/A | ||
| Penny Sycamore | ||
| Self | ||
| 1977 | N/A | |
| Mrs. DeCamp | ||
| 1976 | Self - Special Guest Star | |
| 1975 | Self (uncredited) | |
| Self | ||
| 1973 | Gina's Mother | |
| 1971 | N/A | |
| Strassberg's Secretary | ||
| Mrs. Wappler | ||
| Helen | ||
| Edith Bunker | ||
| 1968 | Self - Guest | |
| 1967 | Self - Guest / Various Characters | |
| Self | ||
| Sadie Finch | ||
| 1963 | N/A | |
| 1962 | N/A | |
| 1961 | Shirley Johnson | |
| Self | ||
| Nurse Whitney | ||
| Mrs. Larsen | ||
| 1960 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Sue | ||
| 1959 | N/A | |
| 1958 | Marilyn Konish | |
| Mrs. Trellis | ||
| Sister Miller | ||
| 1956 | Self - Host | |
| Self - Presenter | ||
| 1954 | N/A | |
| 1951 | Mary Dobkin | |
| 1950 | Teacher | |
| N/A | ||
| 1948 | Bus Girl | |
| Self | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
