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.

Since the show wrapped, many of the sitcom's stars — including Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton and Rob Reiner — have died Though their characters were often at odds with each other on screen, off it, ...