Jean Stapleton

Acting

Jean Stapleton

Born 1923-01-19 Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA 40 films

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 C…

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Filmography

40 films
The Last Laugh poster

Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use h…

The Last Laugh

★ 7.0 2016

Baby poster

A couple finds a baby on their doorstep with a note asking them to temporarily keep it. They take t…

Baby

★ 8.0 2000

Michael poster

Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a…

Michael

★ 5.7 1996

Lily Dale poster

In 1910, 19-year-old Horace Robedaux, still bitter toward his stepfather, goes to Houston to be reu…

Lily Dale

★ 3.7 1996