RIP Maureen Stapleton

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Loved her work immensely. She reminded me of the down-home wives my folks used to have as friends, but was an unassumingly fierce, disarming presence on the screen. RIP

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - Maureen Stapleton, an Oscar-winning character actress whose subtle vulnerability and down-to-earth toughness earned her dramatic and comedic roles on stage, screen, and television, died Monday. She was 80.

The longtime smoker died from chronic pulmonary disease in the Berkshire hills town of Lenox, where she had been living, said her son, Daniel Allentuck.

Stapleton, whose unremarkable, matronly appearance belied her star personality and talent, won an Academy Award for her supporting role as anarchist-writer Emma Goldman in Warren Beatty's 1981 film "Reds," about a left-wing American journalist who journeys to Russia to cover the Bolshevik Revolution.

To prepare for the role, Stapleton said she tried reading Goldman's autobiography, but soon chucked it out of boredom.

"There are many roads to good acting," Stapleton, known for her straightforwardness, said in her 1995 autobiography, "Hell of a Life.""I've been asked repeatedly what the 'key' to acting is, and as far as I'm concerned, the main thing is to keep the audience awake."

Stapleton was nominated several times for a supporting actress Oscar, including for her first film role in 1958's "Lonelyhearts"; "Airport" in 1970; and Woody Allen's "Interiors" in 1978.

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[Blindgroping]

I was smart for a kid.
I knew that while I was only 8 or so, that everyone I liked, who was an adult, would likely die during my lifetime.

 

[Big Dick McGee]

Oh no, Edith Bunker died!! THAT SUCKS!!

 

[Laker_Girl]

^^Edith Bunker was played by Jean Stapleton...Don't play dumb BDM.

 

[Big Dick McGee]

Duuuhhh...who's playin'...