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Ed Asner

Ed Asner

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Born November 15, 1929, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (58)
  • 2023Being Mary Tyler Moore — Self (voice)
  • 2023Commitment to Life — Self (archive footage)
  • The Holiday Movies That Made Us — Self
  • The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
  • 2018Ed Asner's Oral History — Self - Interviewee
  • 2018LA DA Story — Self (archive footage)
  • 2018Olympia — Self
  • 2017And the Winner Isn't — Self
  • 2016The Best Democracy Money Can Buy — Self
  • Celebrity Family Feud — Self
  • 2015Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts — Self
  • 2015I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!! — Himself
  • 2015Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration — Self / Lou Grant (archive footage)
  • 2014I Know That Voice — Self
  • 2012Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl — Self
  • 2012Casting By — Self
  • 2011Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7 — Himself
  • 2009American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist — Self
  • 2008Electile Dysfunction: Inside the Business of American Campaigns — Self
  • Shatner's Raw Nerve — Self
  • 2005The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror — Himself
  • 2004Elf: Film School for Kids — Self
  • 2004Elf: How they Made the North Pole — Self
  • 2004Elf: Tag Along with Will Ferrell — Self
  • 2004Elf: That's a Wrap — Self
  • 2004Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde — Self
  • 2003The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series — Self
  • 2002Remembering Roots — Self
  • 2002The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion — Self
  • 2000Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom — Self
  • 1996Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade — Self
  • 1993Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy — Self
  • Intimate Portrait — Self
  • 1991Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show — Himself
  • 1990Night of 100 Stars III — Self
  • 1988Moon Over Parador — Self
  • 1987Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood — Self
  • The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood — Self - Presenter
  • 1985Night of 100 Stars II — Self
  • 1984Donald Duck's 50th Birthday — Self
  • 1983Koyaanisqatsi — Self (archive footage)
  • Reading Rainbow — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 1982Night of 100 Stars — Self
  • 1978Mickey's 50 — Self
  • 1978NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney — Self
  • 1975Mitzi & 100 Guys — Self
  • Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Self (uncredited)
  • Dinah! — Self
  • Match Game — Self
  • The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts — Self
  • The Flip Wilson Show — Self
  • The Merv Griffin Show — Self
  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
  • The Mike Douglas Show — Self, Self - Co-Host
  • Tony Awards — Self - Presenter
  • The Emmy Awards — Self
  • Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter, Self - Winner
  • Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary — Self (archive footage)
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