Editing Archie Bunker (section)

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{{Infobox character
| name = Archie Bunker
| image = Carrol O'Connor as Archie Bunker.JPG
| caption = [[Carrol O'Connor]] as Archie Bunker
| series = [[All in the Family]]
| first = "[[List of All in the Family episodes|Meet the Bunkers]]"<br />(''All in the Family'')<br />January 12, 1971
| last = "[[List of Archie Bunker's Place episodes|I'm Torn Here]]"<br />(''Archie Bunker's Place'')<br />April 4, 1983
| portrayer = {{Bulleted list
 | [[Carroll O'Connor]] (''All in the Family'' and ''Archie Bunker's Place'')
 | [[Woody Harrelson]] (''[[Live in Front of a Studio Audience]]'')
 }}
| creator = [[Norman Lear]]
| occupation = {{Bulleted list
 | Former blue-collar worker (Longshoreman - Dock foreman)
 | Bar owner and [[Taxicabs of New York City|cabbie]]
 }}
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Edith Bunker|Edith Baines]]|1948|1980|end=died}}
| children = [[Gloria Stivic|Gloria Bunker Stivic]]
| family = {{Unbulleted list
 | David Bunker (father)
 | Sarah Longstreet Bunker (mother)
 | Philip Bunker (brother)
 | Alfred Bunker (brother)
 | Alma Bunker (sister)
 }}
| relatives = {{Unbulleted list
 | [[Joey Stivic]] (grandson)
 | Roy Longstreet (uncle)
 | Barbara "Billie" Bunker (niece)
 | Debbie Bunker (niece)
 | Linda Bunker (niece)
 | Oscar Bunker (cousin)
 | [[Michael Stivic]] (son-in-law)
 }}
}}
'''Archibald''' "'''Archie'''" '''Bunker''' is a fictional character from the 1970s American television sitcom ''[[All in the Family]]'' and its spin-off ''[[Archie Bunker's Place]]'', played by [[Carroll O'Connor]]. Bunker, a main character of the series, is a [[World War II]] veteran, [[blue-collar worker]], and family man. ''All in the Family'' premiered on January 12, 1971, where he was depicted as the head of the Bunker family. In 1979, the show was retooled and renamed ''Archie Bunker's Place''; it finally went off the air in 1983. Bunker lived at the fictional address of 704 Hauser Street in the [[Astoria, Queens|Astoria]] neighborhood of [[Queens]] in New York City.

''All in the Family'' got many of its laughs by playing on Archie's bigotry, although the dynamic tension between Archie and his [[American Left|left-wing]] son-in-law, Mike, provided an ongoing political and social sounding board for a variety of topics. Archie appears in all but seven episodes of the series. Three fifth-season episodes were missed because of a contract dispute between O'Connor and series creator [[Norman Lear]].

Archie was modeled after Norman Lear's father Herman Lear<ref name="Cowan-1979">{{Cite book |last=Cowan |first=Geoffrey |url=https://archive.org/details/seenoevilbacksta00cowa |title=See No Evil |date=1979 |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |isbn=9780671230913 |page=[https://archive.org/details/seenoevilbacksta00cowa/page/24 24] |quote=norman lear meathead. |url-access=registration}}</ref> and on [[Alf Garnett]] from the BBC1 sitcom ''[[Till Death Us Do Part]]'', on which ''All in the Family'' was based.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Till Death Us Do Part |url=http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/till_death_us_do_part/ |access-date=September 12, 2013 |website=comedy.co.uk |publisher=[[British Comedy Guide]]}}</ref> In 1999, ''[[TV Guide]]'' ranked Archie Bunker number{{nbsp}}5 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780760756348/page/651 |title=TV Guide to TV |publisher=Barnes and Noble |year=2004 |isbn=0-7607-5634-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780760756348/page/651 651] |url-access=registration}}</ref> In 2005, Archie Bunker was listed as number{{nbsp}}1 on [[Bravo (American TV network)|Bravo]]'s 100 Greatest TV Characters,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The 100 Greatest TV Characters |url=http://www.bravotv.com/The_100_Greatest_TV_Characters/index.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015070449/http://www.bravotv.com/The_100_Greatest_TV_Characters/index.shtml |archive-date=October 15, 2007 |access-date=January 14, 2012 |publisher=Bravo |df=mdy}}</ref> defeating runners-up such as [[Ralph Kramden]], [[Lucy Ricardo]], [[Fonzie]], and [[Homer Simpson]]. Archie's chair is in the permanent collection of the [[National Museum of American History]].