
Ed Asner
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Biography
Edward Asner (November 15, 1929 – August 29, 2021), commonly known as Ed Asner, was an American film, television, stage, and voice actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant. In 2009, he starred as the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's award-winning animated film, Up. In early 2011, Asner returned to television as butcher Hank Greziak in Working Class, the first original sitcom on cable channel CMT.
Known For

Bones

Gunsmoke

American Dad!

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Mission: Impossible

The Kelly Clarkson Show

ER

Hawaii Five-0

The Middle

The Practice

The Good Wife

MacGyver

Studio One

The Fugitive

Celebrity Family Feud

The Virginian

CSI: NY

The F.B.I.

E! True Hollywood Story

Modern Family

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Sarah Silverman Program.

Tony Awards

Hawaii Five-O

The Defenders

Route 66

Superman: The Animated Series

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Omnibus

Hot in Cleveland

Police Story

Dr. Kildare

Run for Your Life

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Golden Globe Awards

Regular Show

Roseanne

The X-Files

Highway to Heaven

Saturday Night Live

Arliss

Cain's Hundred

Outlaws

Rhoda

King of the Hill

Profiles in Courage

Doom Patrol

Cobra Kai

Teen Titans Go!

Touched by an Angel

The Flip Wilson Show

Family Guy

The Cleveland Show

Grace and Frankie

Justice League Unlimited

The Rat Patrol

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

The Wild Wild West

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

Batman: The Animated Series

Mom

Mr. Novak

CBS Playhouse

The Crazy Ones

The Emmy Awards

The Angry Beavers

The Wild Thornberrys

The Holiday Movies That Made Us

Ironside

Medical Center

Central Park

Dead to Me

Politically Incorrect

The Premise

The Boondocks

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

The Magic School Bus

Hearts Afire

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Andy Barker, P.I.

Young Justice

The Lieutenant

Mad About You

The Eleventh Hour

The Simpsons

Maggie Winters

Spider-Man: The New Animated Series

The Spectacular Spider-Man

Ballmastrz: 9009

Earth and the American Dream

The Movies That Made Us

Tall Tales & Legends

Kid Galahad

JFK

More Tales of the City

Switched at Birth

Too Big to Fail

Home Alone: The Holiday Heist

El Dorado

Common Ground

The Bronx Zoo

Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown

Spider-Man

The Trials of Rosie O'Neill

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Center of the Universe

The Slender Thread

Hard Rain

Snowden's Christmas

Tender Is the Night

The Animal

Rich Man, Poor Man

Elf

Daniel

All Star Superman

Heads

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse

Dug's Special Mission

Spider-Man: The Venom Saga

Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken

Fish Police

SEVEN

The Closer

Gunn

The Night America Trembled

The Sissy Duckling

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

A Friendship in Vienna

A Case of Libel

Super Sex

Dug Days

The Good Doctor

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Christmas Star

Pope John XXIII

The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

Carl's Date

Up

Lou Grant

The Name of the Game

The Story of Santa Claus
Production Credits
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