All in the Family: Created by Norman Lear. With Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers. A working class man constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.
The part of Michael “Meathead” Stivic was originally offered to Harrison Ford. Ford, however, turned it down, finding the character of Archie Bunker too offensive. In May 2013 Jean Stapleton (Edith Bunker) died of natural causes at the age of 90. On June 5 that year the lights on Bro...
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Through a close analysis of the sitcom's four main characters鈥攂oorish bigot Archie Bunker, his devoted wife Edith, their feminist daughter Gloria, and her outspoken liberal husband Mike鈥擩im Cullen demonstrates how All in the Family was able to bridge the generation gap and appeal to a ...
“But black people had not been on television by the ’70s in roles where who they were mattered as much to them as they did on ‘Good Times’ and ‘The Jeffersons.’”“All in the Family,” which starred the “lovable bigot” Archie Bunker character, has also ...
Most people today know Betty from one of her TV series. She played Archie Bunker’s liberal counterpart Irene Lorenzo on “All in the Family” and in my opinion she was TV’s first true feminist. While Bea Arthur’s “Maude” also sparred with bigoted Archie Bunker before getting her own...
OnAll in the Family, the arrogantGeorge Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley) and his patient wife Louise (Isabel Sanford) lived in a blue-collar Queens neighborhood right next door to Archie and Edith Bunker. Hemsley was so instantly electric opposite both Sanford andFamilystar Carroll O’Connor that Geor...
This was a family of working-class stiffs who were barely scraping by (even Archie Bunker didn’t seem to have money problems), they were often dealing with heavy topics, and Roseanne was abrasive and rude. But also, funny as hell? The family and their friends, despite all their problems...
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Archie Bunker (Carroll O’Connor), a deeply prejudiced working-class white guy living in Queens, spoke brashly and without shame. Rude and stuck in his ways, Archie was a man living during the rapidly changing 1970s who was roiled by societal shifts, reflected within his own household, that...