Maureen Stapleton, 80, an actress of extraordinary range who won every honor of her profession and downplayed its pretensions by insisting "the main thing is to keep the audience awake," died ...

TROY — Academy Award-winning actress Maureen Stapleton started her brilliant career as a 10-year-old girl in Troy, performing for no one in the dining room of her four-story home on First Street ...

Asked what she wanted inscribed on her gravestone, Maureen Stapleton once said, ”A very distant date.” Alas, that date has arrived; the Oscar-winning actress died today at age 80 ...

Maureen Stapleton, who died yesterday at 80, was among the finest stage actresses of her generation, and a personality as outsize as any she played onstage, or as anything she compared her posterior ...

Maureen Stapleton, the acclaimed stage, screen and television character actress who won an Academy Award for her supporting role in the 1981 film "Reds," died Monday.

NEW YORK — Jean Stapleton, the character actress whose portrayal of a slow-witted, big-hearted and submissive — to a point — housewife on the groundbreaking series “All in the Family” ...

Iconic television and Broadway actress Jean Stapleton passed away peacefully of natural causes on May 31st, 2013 at her home in New York City. She was surrounded by friends and her immediate family.