Jean Stapleton

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1923-01-19 (90 years old)

Deathday

2013-05-31

Place of Birth

Manhattan, New York, US

Jean Stapleton

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 de...

Acting

1996

Michael

as Pansy Milbank

2001

1986

Dead Man's Folly

as Ariadne Oliver

1998

You've Got Mail

as Birdie Conrad

1958

Damn Yankees

as Sister Miller

1971

Cold Turkey

as Mrs. Wappler

1967

Up the Down Staircase

as Sadie Finch

1984

The Buddy System

as Mrs. Price

1961

Something Wild

as Shirley Johnson

2000

Baby

as Byrd

1998

Chance of a Lifetime

as Mrs. Dunbar

1981

Angel Dusted

as Betty Eaton

1996

Lily Dale

as Mrs. Coons

2016

1971

Klute

as Goldfarb’s Secretary

1979

Aunt Mary

as Mary Dobkin

1982

1977

Tail Gunner Joe

as Mrs. DeCamp

1979

1991

Fire in the Dark

as Henry Dutton

1998

1984

A Matter of Sex

as Irene Wallin

1993

1983

Jack and the Beanstalk

as The Giantess

1985

Cinderella

as Fairy Godmother

2001

1993

The Trial

as Landlady (uncredited)

1981

Isabel's Choice

as Isabel Cooper

1990

1992

The Habitation of Dragons

as Lenora Tolliver

1985

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