His father was a salesman/entrepreneur. Herman Lear was the all-time inspiration to soon in Norman's career creating the character, Archie Bunker. And Jeanette Seicol was the inspiration for the character Edith Bunker.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Brentwood is a residential subdivision in the Hiram Clarke community, in Southwest Houston, Texas. Jennifer Frey of The Washington Post said in 2001 that Brentwood was a medium-size, lower-middle class neighborhood[...]. 1 History.
Originally Brentwood was a White community, settled in the 1960s. Claudia Kolker of the Houston Press said that the first generation of settlers, who were White, as well as the second and third, who were Black, came for the small-town quality..