Cast: Jean Stapleton

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jean Stapleton. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


All in the Family (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Norman Lear · Paul Bogart · John Rich · Bob LaHendro

Cast Carroll O'Connor · Jean Stapleton · Rob Reiner · Sally Struthers

Plot TV Series (1971-1979). 9 Seasons. 208 Episodes. Archie Bunker, was a working-class family man who held bigoted, conservative views of the world. His viewpoints clash with nearly everyone he comes...

6.7

146 votes

6.7

146 votes

Beakman's World (TV Series)

1992 · Documentary · 30 min. · United States

Direction Jok R. Church · Jay Dubin · Robert Heath

Cast Paul Zaloom · Mark Ritts · Eliza Schneider · Alanna Ubach

Plot In this show, which works like a cross between Mr. Wizard and Monty Python, the science teacher, Beakman answers viewer questions about science. With the help of his assistants Josie...

6.7

5K votes

6.7

5K votes

Up the Down Staircase

1967 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Robert Mulligan

Cast Sandy Dennis · Eileen Heckart · Jean Stapleton · Patrick Bedford

Plot Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration...

6.6

131 votes

6.6

131 votes

The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 23 min. · United States

Direction Ray Bradbury · Randy Bradshaw · Roger Tompkins · John Laing

Cast Ray Bradbury · Harold Gould · Charles Martin Smith · Michael Sarrazin

Plot TV series (1985-1992). 6 seasons. 65 episodes. A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short...

6.6

39 votes

6.6

39 votes

Faerie Tale Theatre (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Peter Medak · Gilbert Cates · Graeme Clifford · Robert Iscove

Cast Shelley Duvall · John Achorn · Patrick DeSantis · David McCharen

Plot TV Series (1982-1987). 6 seasons. 27 chapters. At a time when most other shows for children were either low-budget productions or product-inspired cartoons that were little more than half-hour commercials,...

6.4

119 votes

6.4

119 votes

Something Wild

1961 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Jack Garfein

Cast Carroll Baker · Ralph Meeker · Mildred Dunnock · Jean Stapleton

Plot Mary Ann Robinson, a young woman living in The Bronx, New York, with her neurotic, overbearing mother and kindly but ineffectual stepfather, is raped while walking home one night. Keeping...

6.4

107 votes

6.4

107 votes

Bells Are Ringing

1960 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Judy Holliday · Dean Martin · Fred Clark · Eddie Foy Jr.

Plot Ella Peterson is a Brooklyn telephone answering service operator who tries to improve the lives of her clients by passing along bits of information she hears from other clients. She...

6.4

213 votes

6.4

213 votes

Damn Yankees!

1958 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction George Abbott · Stanley Donen

Cast Tab Hunter · Gwen Verdon · Ray Walston · Russ Brown

Plot Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant.

6.0

93 votes

6.0

93 votes

Cinderella (Faerie Tale Theatre Series) (TV)

1985 · Movie · 54 min. · United States

Direction Mark Cullingham

Cast Jennifer Beals · Matthew Broderick · John Achorn · Jane Alden

Plot A fairy godmother's a great thing to have, as Cinderella (Flashdance's Jennifer Beals) is about to find out in this charming retelling of the classic fairytale. When an invitation to...

6.0

326 votes

6.0

326 votes

Cold Turkey

1971 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Norman Lear

Cast Dick Van Dyke · Pippa Scott · Tom Poston · Edward Everett Horton

Plot What happens when an evil tobacco company offers $25,000,000 to an entire town to stop smoking for thirty days? What happens when 4,006 heavy smokers from Eagle Rock, Iowa take...

5.8

150 votes

5.8

150 votes

Dead Man's Folly (TV)

1986 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Clive Donner

Cast Peter Ustinov · Jean Stapleton · Constance Cummings · Tim Pigott-Smith

Plot Peter Ustinov stars once more as Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's insufferably brilliant Belgian detective. Unlike many of Ustinov's earlier Poirot vehicles, which were set in the 1930s, the made-for-TV Dead...

5.7

115 votes

5.7

115 votes

You've Got Mail

1998 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Nora Ephron

Cast Tom Hanks · Meg Ryan · Greg Kinnear · Parker Posey

Plot Based on the classic film The Shop Around the Corner, this tale of pen-pal romance has been updated for the internet age. Hanks plays a book mega-store owner who falls...

5.2

69K votes

5.2

69K votes

Grimm Party (Faerie Tale Theatre Series) (TV)

1985 · Documentary · 54 min. · United States

Cast Jean Stapleton · Shelley Duvall · Teri Garr · Richard Libertini

Plot Faerie Tale Theatre's "lost" episode, Grimm Party, sometimes called "Greatest Moments.", kind of a mix between show scenes and making of.

5.0

26 votes

5.0

26 votes

Michael

1996 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Nora Ephron

Cast John Travolta · William Hurt · Andie MacDowell · Bob Hoskins

Plot Frank Quinlan and Huey Driscoll, two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with Dorothy Winters, an 'angel expert', are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from...

4.5

5K votes

4.5

5K votes

Direction Arthur Allan Seidelman

Cast Mary Tyler Moore · Robert Forster · Gabriel Olds · Jean Stapleton

Plot Fans of Mary Tyler Moore may be taken aback by her performance in this fact-based drama, in which she plays a character far removed from her bubbly Laura Petrie and...

3.2

21 votes

3.2

21 votes

The Habitation of Dragons (TV)

1992 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Cast Brad Davis · Frederic Forrest · Hawthorne James · Jean Stapleton

Plot Two brothers of totally different natures live in a small town in Texas. Since the death of their father they confront one another all the time for all kind of...

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Archie Bunker's Place (TV Series)

1979 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Patt Shea · Harriett Weiss · Joe Gannon · Gary Shimokawa

Cast Carroll O'Connor · Danielle Brisebois · Jason Wingreen · Bill Quinn

Plot (1979-1983). 4 seasons. Television sitcom which was a continuation of 'All in the Family.' In this series, Archie Bunker gets to loudly voice his opinions in his own bar, instead...

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Not rated

Chance of a Lifetime (TV)

1998 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Deborah Reinisch

Cast Stan Ivar · John Ritter · Katey Sagal · Kim Delgado

Plot Irreverent freelance investigative reporter Tom Maguire hits rock bottom when bigot editor in chief Ivan refuses to print his pieces anymore and his bad back most be operated, but his...

Not rated

Not rated

Aunt Mary (TV)

1979 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Peter Werner

Cast Jean Stapleton · Martin Balsam · Dolph Sweet · Harold Gould

Plot A disabled woman starts a Little League baseball team to help the children in her poverty-stricken neighborhood.

Not rated

Not rated