Ed Asner
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1929-11-15
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Popularity: 2.3
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 Filmography
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Simpsons
1989
Bones
2005
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Family Guy
1999
American Dad!
2005
Hawaii Five-0
2010
Modern Family
2009
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
The X-Files
1993
The Good Wife
2009
Saturday Night Live
1975
Regular Show
2010
Teen Titans Go!
2013
ER
1994
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
King of the Hill
1997
CSI: NY
2004
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
The Middle
2009
Young Justice
2010
Ironside
1967
The Fugitive
1963
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Practice
1997
Mom
2013
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Great Performances
1971
Cobra Kai
2018
MacGyver
2016
The Virginian
1962
Batman: The Animated Series
1992
Mission: Impossible
1966
Animaniacs
1993
Mad About You
1992
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Dinosaurs
1991
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
The Wild Wild West
1965
Johnny Bravo
1997
Tony Awards
1956
The Dead Zone
2002
Hot in Cleveland
2010
Run for Your Life
1965
The Untouchables
1959
Touched by an Angel
1994
The F.B.I.
1965No Photo
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Naked City
1958
Match Game
1973
Dr. Kildare
1961
Studio One
1948
Grace and Frankie
2015
Medical Center
1969
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
Highway to Heaven
1984
Burke's Law
1963
Doom Patrol
2019
Gargoyles
1994
Lou Grant
1977
Superman: The Animated Series
1996
Spider-Man
1994
The Boondocks
2005
Intimate Portrait
1993
The Cleveland Show
2009
The Invaders
1967
Gunsmoke
1955
Duckman
1994
Route 66
1960
Arli$$
1996
Hercules
1998
The Defenders
1961
The Outer Limits
1963
Celebrity Family Feud
2015
The Name of the Game
1968
Justice League Unlimited
2004
The Oscars
1953
Up
2009
Dinah!
1974
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
2000
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990
Rhoda
1974
Omnibus
1952
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
The Spectacular Spider-Man
2008
Dharma & Greg
1997
The Sarah Silverman Program.
2007
The Angry Beavers
1997
Reading Rainbow
1983
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
1996
Felony Squad
1966
The Mod Squad
1968
Dead to Me
2019
Freakazoid!
1995
Police Story
1973
The Magic School Bus
1994
The White Shadow
1978
Chasing Life
2014
Roots
1977
Hearts Afire
1992
Mr. Novak
1963
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
2003
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006
The Flip Wilson Show
1970
Stoney Burke
1962
Outlaws
1960
Men at Work
2012
The Huntress
2000
The Crazy Ones
2013
The Rat Patrol
1966
Central Park
2020
Cain's Hundred
1961
The Lieutenant
1963
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
The Eleventh Hour
1962
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966No Photo
CBS Playhouse
1966
Rich Man, Poor Man
1976
Tall Tales & Legends
1985
Max Steel
2000
JFK
1991
Carl's Date
2023
Sam Benedict
1962No Photo
Profiles in Courage
1964
Decoy
1957
Elf
2003
Roseanne
1988
The Bronx Zoo
1987
The Trials of Rosie O'Neill
1990
Shatner's Raw Nerve
2008
The Premise
2021
Dug Days
2021
Dumb and Dumber
1995
El Dorado
1966
The Emmy Awards
1949
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2022
Center of the Universe
2004
Thunder Alley
1994
The Animal
2001
Politically Incorrect
1993
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1965
Hard Rain
1998No Photo
Maggie Winters
1998
More Tales of the City
1998
Fish Police
1992
Bruno the Kid
1996
Andy Barker, P.I.
2007
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
2020
Tender Is the Night
1985
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
2012
Working Class
2011
Ballmastrz: 9009
2018
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
2010
Slattery's People
1964
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Daniel
1983
Cruel Doubt
1992No Photo
The Closer
1998
Too Big to Fail
2011
The Bachelor
1999
Koyaanisqatsi
1983
Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays
2011
I Know That Voice
2014
All Star Superman
2011
Super Sex
2016
Off the Rack
1985
Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure
2003
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Foodfight!
2012
The Gettysburg Address
2025
Muppets Haunted Mansion
2021
Switched at Birth
1991
Let Go
2011
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
Fort Apache, the Bronx
1981
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
1987
The Satan Bug
1965
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970
Our Friend, Martin
1999
Kid Galahad
1962
Night of 100 Stars
1982
Christmas Is Here Again
2007
Second Chances
2013
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
2017
Casting By
2012
Daredevil vs. Spider-Man
2003
Happily Ever After
1989
Christmas Cottage
2008
Gigantic
2008
Mickey's 50
1978
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown
2002
Gus
1976
The Slender Thread
1965
Hard Four
2007
Out of the Woods
2005
Love Finds You in Valentine
2016
All of My Heart: The Wedding
2018
Axel: The Biggest Little Hero
2013
The Girl Most Likely To...
1973
Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas
2014
The Parting Glass
2018No Photo
Cracked Up
1987
The Christmas Card
2006
Olive, the Other Reindeer
1999
The Long Way Home
1997
Moon Over Parador
1988
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken
1995
In Vino
2019No Photo
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
1990No Photo
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
2012
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
1987
Being Mary Tyler Moore
2023
The Venetian Affair
1966
Death Scream
1975
A Christmas Carol
1997
Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
2005
They Call It Murder
1971
Commitment to Life
2023
Above Suspicion
2000
Dug's Special Mission
2009
The Man Who Saved Christmas
2002
Haunts of the Very Rich
1972
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
Christmas on the Bayou
2013
Kate's Secret
1986
All of My Heart: Inn Love
2017
A Different Approach
1978
And the Winner Isn't
2017
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
2015
O'Hara's Wife
1982
CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels!
2017
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
1993
The Sissy Duckling
1999
Skin Game
1971
The Marva Collins Story
1981
Gypsy
1994No Photo
Scarlett
2021
The Defender (Studio One)
1957
The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay
2003
Pope John XXIII
2002
Common Ground
2000
The Todd Killings
1971
Faith, Hope & Love
2019
Gone in the Night
1996
The Night America Trembled
1957
Altered Reality
2024
M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters
2020
The Commission
2003
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
Perfect Game
2000
Sir! No Sir!
2005
Halls of Anger
1970
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
The Wrestler
1974
The Doomsday Flight
1966
I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!
2015
The Last Child
1971
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
1995
Hey, I'm Alive
1975
House on Greenapple Road
1970
Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
1984
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000No Photo
Academy Boyz
1997
Change of Habit
1969
Good Cops, Bad Cops
1990
The Garden Left Behind
2020
Heads
1994
Daughter of the Mind
1969
The Games Maker
2014
Darlin' Clementine
1986
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
1991
All of My Heart
2015
Love and Action in Chicago
1999
The Nutcracker Sweet
2015
Audrey
2014
Payback
1997
Generation Gap
2008
A Small Killing
1981
Frozen in Time
2014
Mitzi & 100 Guys
1975
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
2016
Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock
2004
Senior Entourage
2021
Joe's War
2017
Gahan Wilson's The Kid
2001
The Gathering
1977
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
1978
Eva: A-7063
2018
A StoryBots Christmas
2017
Sam Cade
1972
Identical
2011
O' Christmas Tree
1999No Photo
The New Girl
1960
Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
1986
Dog's Best Friend
1997
The Impostor
1975
A Merry Murdoch Christmas
2015
Anatomy of an Illness
1984
Up: Upisodes
2009
A Case of Libel
1983
Should've Been Romeo
2012
Becoming Dick
2000
Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger
1995
Angels on Tap
2018
Fanfare for a Death Scene
1964
The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish
1977
Island Prey
2001
SEVEN
2020
The Family Man
1979
Absolute Killers
2011
The Christmas Star
1986
Back Home Again
2021
The Good Doctor
1978
Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show
1991No Photo
Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary
N/A
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
1970
Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas!
2017
Rain Beau's End
2020
Saving Christmas
2017
Silent Motive
1991No Photo
Blood
2021
Missing Brendan
2004
Christmas Dreams
2009
Snowden's Christmas
1999
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
2005
The Fumbleheads
1997
Gunn
1967
LA DA Story
2018No Photo
The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion
2002
The Murder Men
1961No Photo
Liberator
2012No Photo
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
2007
Olympia
2018
Hopelessly in June
2011
A Man and His Prostate
N/A
A Fargo Christmas Story
2023
Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII
2002No Photo
Captain Daddy
2021
A Friendship in Vienna
1988
Bury Me in Armor
2020
Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting
2018
Love Meet Hope
2016
The Story of Santa Claus
1996
J-24
1960
Crab Orchard
2005
The Gliksmans
2017
Not Another B Movie
2011
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011
Tiger Within
2020
The Impersonation Murder Case
1975
In Search of Peace
2001
Down on the Waterfront
1994
Getting Ed Laid
2016No Photo
Vital Signs
1986
Remembering Roots
2002
Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts
2015
Good Men
2011
Bring Him Home
2000
Twigs
1975No Photo
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror
2005No Photo
Behind the Fear
2016No Photo
Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom
2000
Honor Amongst Men
2018
Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man
2017
Elephant Sighs
2012
Autism and Cake
2012No Photo
The True Story of the Amityville Murders: From Homicide to Horror
2011
Unplugged
N/A
Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure
2003No Photo
American Road
2013
Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union
2008No Photo
The Triumph of William Henry Harrison
2010
The Real Story of Happy Birthday To You
1991
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
2009
Channels
2008
Mary Jane: A Musical Potumentary
2016No Photo
Hanged on a Twisted Cross
1996
Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving
2013
The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It
2002
Americas in Transition
1982
Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade
1996No Photo
Titanic: Sinking the Myths
2016
Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7
2011No Photo
Ed Asner's Oral History
2018
Electile Dysfunction: Inside the Business of American Campaigns
2008No Photo
Sleeping Dogs Lie
2005No Photo