Ed Asner
Acting

Ed Asner

Born 15 November 1929 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA · Died 29 August 2021

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

Up
The Simpsons
Cobra Kai
Family Guy
Elf
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The X-Files
Bones
Modern Family
JFK
American Dad!
Regular Show
The Gettysburg Address
Altered Reality
Carl's Date
A Fargo Christmas Story
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Muppets Haunted Mansion
Back Home Again
A Man and His Prostate
Senior Entourage
Tiger Within
The Garden Left Behind
M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters
Bury Me in Armor
Rain Beau's End
Faith, Hope & Love
In Vino
The Parting Glass
All of My Heart: The Wedding
Angels on Tap
Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting
Eva: A-7063
Honor Amongst Men
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
Joe's War
CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels!
All of My Heart: Inn Love
Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas!
A StoryBots Christmas
Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man
Saving Christmas
The Gliksmans
Getting Ed Laid
Love Finds You in Valentine
Super Sex
Love Meet Hope
Mary Jane: A Musical Potumentary
All of My Heart
The Nutcracker Sweet
A Merry Murdoch Christmas
The Games Maker
Audrey
Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas
Frozen in Time
Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving
Axel: The Biggest Little Hero
Second Chances
Christmas on the Bayou
Should've Been Romeo
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
Foodfight!
Elephant Sighs
Autism and Cake
Too Big to Fail
All Star Superman
Hopelessly in June
Let Go
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Identical
Not Another B Movie
Good Men
Absolute Killers
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
Up
Christmas Dreams
Christmas Cottage
Gigantic
Generation Gap
Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union
Channels
Christmas Is Here Again
Hard Four
The Christmas Card
Sir! No Sir!
Out of the Woods
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
Crab Orchard
Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
Missing Brendan
Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock
Elf
The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay
Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure
Daredevil vs. Spider-Man
Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure
The Commission
The Man Who Saved Christmas
Pope John XXIII
Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown
The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It
Spider-Man: The Return of the Green Goblin
The Animal
Island Prey
Gahan Wilson's The Kid
In Search of Peace
Becoming Dick
Above Suspicion
Perfect Game
Common Ground
Bring Him Home
The Bachelor
Olive, the Other Reindeer
O' Christmas Tree
Our Friend, Martin
Snowden's Christmas
The Sissy Duckling
Love and Action in Chicago
Hard Rain
A Christmas Carol
The Long Way Home
Payback
Dog's Best Friend
The Fumbleheads
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Gone in the Night
The Story of Santa Claus
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken
Gypsy
Down on the Waterfront
Heads
Earth and the American Dream
JFK
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
The Real Story of Happy Birthday To You
Silent Motive
Good Cops, Bad Cops
Happily Ever After
A Friendship in Vienna
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
The Christmas Star
Darlin' Clementine
Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
Kate's Secret
Anatomy of an Illness
Daniel
A Case of Libel
Americas in Transition
O'Hara's Wife
Fort Apache, the Bronx
The Marva Collins Story
A Small Killing
The Family Man
A Different Approach
The Good Doctor
The Gathering
The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish
Gus
The Impersonation Murder Case
Twigs
The Impostor
Hey, I'm Alive
Death Scream
The Wrestler
The Girl Most Likely To...
Haunts of the Very Rich
Sam Cade
Skin Game
The Todd Killings
The Last Child
They Call It Murder
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
Halls of Anger
House on Greenapple Road
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
Daughter of the Mind
Change of Habit
Gunn
El Dorado
The Venetian Affair
The Doomsday Flight
The Satan Bug
The Slender Thread
Fanfare for a Death Scene
The Murder Men
J-24
The Night America Trembled
Ed Asner · Midrow