Maude (tv program)

Jean Stapleton dies at 90; was Edith Bunker in 'All in the Family'

2013-06-01 17:40:00

Jean Stapleton, the actress who endeared herself to viewers in the 1970s as Edith Bunker, whose sudden bursts of truth regularly cut through her husband Archie's bluster on the groundbreaking television series "All in the Family," has died. She was 90....

Conrad Bain dies at 89; played father on 'Diff'rent Strokes'

2013-01-17 00:00:00

While portraying the white millionaire father on the hit TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," Conrad Bain was often asked whether he enjoyed working alongside such scene-stealing young co-stars as Gary Coleman, who precociously played one of his two adopted...

John Rich dies at 86; director of landmark sitcoms

2012-01-30 00:00:00

As a top television comedy director who won an Emmy directing "The Dick Van Dyke Show"in the early 1960s, John Rich was faced with a tough choice in 1970. On the same day he received a phone call from Mary Tyler Moore wanting to set up a meeting to...

Patt Morrison Asks: Norman Lear, TV's seriously funny icon

2012-06-20 00:00:00

Television comedy can probably be divided into two eras: B.L. and A.L. — Before Lear and After Lear. Norman Lear's seminal 1970s sitcoms —"All in the Family" and its offspring, from"Maude" to "The Jeffersons" — used the laissez-passer of...

Rue McClanahan dies at 76; star of the hit TV series 'The Golden Girls'

2010-06-04 00:00:00

Rue McClanahan, an actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as the sassy, man-crazy Southern belle Blanche Devereaux on the hit TV series "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 76. McClanahan died early Thursday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital of...

'Golden Girls' Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Betty White help animals (in Arthur's case, posthumously)

2010-04-28 21:34:09

Emmy Awards celebrate Bob Newhart

2010-05-14 16:33:46

Rue McClanahan, from theater to television and back again

2010-06-03 16:33:05

'Golden Girls' leading lady Rue McClanahan dies at 76

2010-06-03 16:33:37

'Golden Girl' Rue McClanahan dies at 76 [Updated]

2010-06-03 16:35:55

Bernie West dies at 92; writer and producer on 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons'

2010-08-04 00:00:00

Bernie West, a writer and producer on such TV shows as " All in the Family," "The Jeffersons" and "Three's Company" during a wide-ranging show business career, has died. He was 92. West died Thursday at his home in Beverly Hills of complications from...

Bea Arthur continues her activism in death

2010-04-22 16:35:24

Bill Macy, left, Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Adrienne Barbeau do a scene in the groundbreaking TV series "Maude," which ran from 1972 to 1978.

2010-06-03 12:45:01

Golden Girl, Maude and all-around comic genius, Bea Arthur, died April 25, 2009. She was 86.

2009-07-24 13:17:23