Ed Asner

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Known For

Acting

Born

1929-11-15

Place of Birth

Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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Ed Asner

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.

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Acting History

2025
The Gettysburg Address as Edward Everett (voice)
2024
Altered Reality as Mike Wilson
2023
A Fargo Christmas Story as Popcorn Bud
2023
Carl's Date as Carl (voice)
2023
Being Mary Tyler Moore as Self (voice)
2022
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules as Grandpa Heffley (voice)
2021
Scarlett
2021
Back Home Again as Peter Lionsbridge (voice)
2021
Muppets Haunted Mansion as Ghost of Claude
2021
The Premise as Mr. Holmes
2021
Dug Days as Carl (voice)
2021
Senior Entourage as Ed
2021
Captain Daddy as Grampa (voice)
2021
Blood as The Prophet
2020
Tiger Within as Samuel
2020
Bury Me in Armor as Dimitry George
2020
SEVEN
2020
The Holiday Movies That Made Us as Self
2020
Rain Beau's End as Gunny
2020
The Garden Left Behind as Dr. Cleary
2020
Central Park as Ambrose (voice)
2020
M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters as Dr. Howard Arden
2019
In Vino as Charles
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019
Dead to Me as Abe Rifkin
2019
Faith, Hope & Love as Harry Karetas
2019
Doom Patrol as Hospital Patient
2018
Olympia as Himself
2018
All of My Heart: The Wedding as Vern
2018
Honor Amongst Men as Pop Halmo
2018
Angels on Tap as Swifty
2018
The Parting Glass as Tommy
2018
Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting as Jefferson
2018
Cobra Kai as Sid Weinberg
2018
Ed Asner's Oral History as Self - Interviewee
2018
Ballmastrz: 9009 as Rupert T. Digzfield (voice)
2018
Eva: A-7063 as Narrator (voice)
2018
LA DA Story as Self (archive footage)
2017
And the Winner Isn't as Self
2017
A StoryBots Christmas as Santa
2017
Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas! as Santa
2017
Saving Christmas as Rick
2017
The Gliksmans as Moshe
2017
All of My Heart: Inn Love as Vern
2017
Yamasong: March of the Hollows as Elder Pyreez (voice)
2017
CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels! as Arthur (voice)
2017
Joe's War as Harry
2017
Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man as Adult Walter (voice)
2016
MacGyver as Saul
2016
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy as Self
2016
Titanic: Sinking the Myths as Wilhelm Müller
2016
Mary Jane: A Musical Potumentary as Corporate Manager
2016
Super Sex as George
2016
Getting Ed Laid as Ed Randall
2016
Love Meet Hope as Mr. James
2016
Love Finds You in Valentine as Gabriel Morgan
2016
Behind the Fear as Narrator (voice)
2015
A Merry Murdoch Christmas as Kris Kringle
2015
Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts as Self
2015
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration as Self / Lou Grant (archive footage)
2015
Celebrity Family Feud as Self
2015
The Nutcracker Sweet as Owl (voice)
2015
Grace and Frankie as Howard Jay
2015
I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!! as Himself
2015
All of My Heart as Vern
2014
Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas as Santa (voice)
2014
Frozen in Time as Grandpa (voice)
2014
The Games Maker as Nicholas Drago
2014
Chasing Life as April's grandfather
2014
Waiting in the Wings: The Musical as Jefferson
2014
Audrey as Walt
2014
I Know That Voice as Self
2013
Christmas on the Bayou as Papa Noel
2013
Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving as Mr Wilson
2013
The Crazy Ones as Mr. Finger
2013
Mom as Jack
2013
Axel: The Biggest Little Hero as Bonta / Narrator (voice)
2013
American Road as Walt Whitman
2013
Second Chances as Chief Buddy
2013
Teen Titans Go! as Sgt. Mike Cosgrove (voice)
2012
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist as Mr. Carson
2012
Casting By as Self
2012
Autism and Cake as Fred
2012
Liberator as President Whitlock
2012
Foodfight! as Mr. Leonard (voice)
2012
Elephant Sighs as Leo
2012
Men at Work as Bob
2012
Should've Been Romeo as Charlie
2012
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl as Self
2011
The True Story of the Amityville Murders: From Homicide to Horror as Narrator
2011
Identical as Yaakov Washington
2011
Too Big to Fail as Warren Buffett
2011
Let Go as Artie
2011
Absolute Killers
2011
Good Men as Morty
2011
Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays as Dr. Wasserman
2011
Not Another B Movie as Angry Investor
2011
Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7 as Himself
2011
Hopelessly in June as Rabbi
2011
The Desert of Forbidden Art as Voice
2011
Working Class as Hank Greziak
2011
All Star Superman as Perry White (voice)
2010
Young Justice as Kent Nelson (voice)
2010
The Triumph of William Henry Harrison
2010
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse as Granny Goodness (voice)
2010
Hawaii Five-0 as August March
2010
Regular Show as Santa Claus (voice)
2010
Hot in Cleveland as Jameson
2009
Christmas Dreams as Jerry
2009
Dug's Special Mission as Carl Fredricksen (voice) (uncredited)
2009
The Middle as Ben
2009
The Cleveland Show
2009
Modern Family as Herschel
2009
The Good Wife as Guy Redmayne
2009
Up as Carl Fredricksen (voice)
2009
Up: Upisodes as Carl Fredricksen (voice)
2009
The Line
2008
Shatner's Raw Nerve as Self
2008
Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union as Narrator (Voice)
2008
Generation Gap as Bart Cahill
2008
Christmas Cottage as Sidney
2008
Gigantic as Kirby Weathersby
2008
Electile Dysfunction: Inside the Business of American Campaigns
2008
The Spectacular Spider-Man as Ben Parker (voice)
2008
Channels as Ed Packard
2007
Hard Four as Golden Hands Segal
2007
Christmas Is Here Again as Krad (voice)
2007
Andy Barker, P.I. as Mickey Doyle
2007
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
2007
The Sarah Silverman Program. as Commandant Von Reichenstein
2007
The Rich Have Their Own Photographers
2006
The Christmas Card as Luke Spelman
2006
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip as Wilson White
2005
The Boondocks as Ed Wuncler (voice)
2005
Crab Orchard
2005
Bones as Rufus Tucker
2005
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class as Narrator
2005
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror as Himself
2005
Spider-Man: The Venom Saga as J. Jonah Jameson
2005
Sir! No Sir! as Col. Heinl
2005
Out of the Woods as Jack Green
2005
Sleeping Dogs Lie as Sheriff Delaney
2005
American Dad! as TV Guide Editor-in-Chief (voice)
2005
American Dad! as Narrator (voice)
2005
American Dad! as Mailbox #2 (voice)
2005
American Dad! as Grandpa Smith (voice)
2004
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde as Self
2004
Center of the Universe as Art Barnett
2004
Missing Brendan as George Calden
2004
CSI: NY as Abraham Klein
2004
Justice League Unlimited as Hephaestus (voice)
2004
Justice League Unlimited as Granny Goodness (voice)
2004
Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock as J Jonah Jameson
2003
Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure as Uncle Nick
2003
Elf as Santa
2003
The Commission as Capt. J.W. 'Will' Fritz
2003
Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure as Narrator (voice)
2003
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series as Officer Barr (voice)
2003
The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay as Augie Sinclair
2003
Daredevil vs. Spider-Man as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
2003
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series as Self
2002
The Man Who Saved Christmas as Charles Gilbert
2002
The Dead Zone as Marty Bracknell
2002
The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion as Self
2002
Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown as J. Jonah Jameson
2002
The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It as Narrator
2002
Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII as Jean XXIII
2002
Pope John XXIII as Angelo Roncalli
2001
Gahan Wilson's The Kid as Dead Cat
2001
In Search of Peace as David Ben Gurion (voice)
2001
The Animal as Chief Wilson
2001
Island Prey as Jay Roth
2000
Curb Your Enthusiasm as Mr. Weiner
2000
Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom as Self
2000
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command as Fixer (voice)
2000
Becoming Dick as Davis Aldrich
2000
The Huntress
2000
Above Suspicion as Thomas O'Claire
2000
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
Perfect Game as Billy Hicks
2000
Max Steel as Chuck Marshak (voice)
2000
Common Ground as Ira
2000
Bring Him Home as Geza
1999
Snowden's Christmas as (voice)
1999
Olive, the Other Reindeer as Santa Claus (voice)
1999
The Bachelor as Gluckman
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Martin Schultz
1999
Love and Action in Chicago as Taylor
1999
The Sissy Duckling as Father Duck (voice)
1999
Family Guy as Steve Bellows (voice)
1999
Our Friend, Martin as Mr. Harris (voice) (as Ed Asner)
1999
O' Christmas Tree as Nutcracker (voice)
1998
Maggie Winters
1998
The Wild Thornberrys as Frank Hunter (voice)
1998
Hercules as Mentor (voice)
1998
More Tales of the City as Jack Lederer
1998
The Closer
1998
Hard Rain as Uncle Charlie
1997
A Christmas Carol as Marley (voice)
1997
Academy Boyz
1997
Dharma & Greg as Earl Tucker
1997
The Long Way Home as George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice)
1997
Johnny Bravo
1997
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann as Dr. Robert Servatius (voice)
1997
The Angry Beavers
1997
Dog's Best Friend as Jeep, the Sheep Dog (voice)
1997
The Practice as Judge Matlin Pratt
1997
The Practice as Judge Marcus Winnaker
1997
Payback as Jack Patkanis
1997
King of the Hill as Stinky (voice)
1997
The Fumbleheads as Charlie Atwater
1996
The Story of Santa Claus as Santa Claus (voice)
1996
Bruno the Kid as The Engineer (voice)
1996
Superman: The Animated Series as Granny Goodness (voice)
1996
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest as Von Romme (voice)
1996
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Arli$$
1996
Hanged on a Twisted Cross as Narrator
1996
Gone in the Night as Det. John Waters
1995
Freakazoid! as Sgt. Cosgrove (voice)
1995
Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger
1995
Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken as Hudson (voice)
1995
Goldilocks and the Three Bears as Bruno
1994
Spider-Man as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
1994
Gargoyles as Hudson (voice)
1994
Touched by an Angel as Bud
1994
ER as Dr. James McNulty
1994
The Magic School Bus as Gen. Aranius (voice)
1994
Down on the Waterfront
1994
Thunder Alley as Gil Jones
1994
Duckman as Mort Sidelman (voice)
1994
Heads as Ab Abbot
1993
Gypsy as Charles Thompson
1993
Intimate Portrait as Self
1993
The X-Files as Maurice
1993
Politically Incorrect
1993
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy as Self
1992
Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
1992
Mad About You as Zigmund Klarik
1992
Hearts Afire as George Lahti
1992
Batman: The Animated Series as Roland Daggett (voice)
1992
Cruel Doubt as Bill Osteen
1992
Fish Police
1991
JFK as Guy Bannister
1991
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus as Edward P. Mitchell
1991
Silent Motive as Sam
1991
Switched at Birth as Ted Marx
1991
Dinosaurs as Evil Georgie (voice)
1991
Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show as Himself
1991
The Real Story of Happy Birthday To You as Charlie (voice)
1990
The Cops Are Robbers
1990
The Trials of Rosie O'Neill as Walter Kovacs
1990
Captain Planet and the Planeteers as Hoggish Greedly (voice)
1990
Night of 100 Stars III as Self
1990
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less as Harvey Metcalfe
1989
The Simpsons as Editor (voice)
1989
Happily Ever After as Scowl the Owl (voice)
1988
Roseanne
1988
Moon Over Parador as Self
1988
A Friendship in Vienna as Opah Oskar Reikman
1987
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night as Scalawag (voice)
1987
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood as Self - Presenter
1987
Cracked Up as Rev. Vincent Owens
1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
1987
The Bronx Zoo
1986
The Christmas Star as Horace McNickle
1986
Kate's Secret as Dr. Resnick
1986
Joshua and the Battle of Jericho as Joshua (voice)
1986
Vital Signs as Matthew St James
1986
Darlin' Clementine as Lucky Jake
1985
Tall Tales & Legends as Lucky Jake
1985
Tender Is the Night as Devereux Warren
1985
Off the Rack as Sam Waltman
1985
Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1984
Donald Duck's 50th Birthday as Self
1984
Highway to Heaven
1984
Anatomy of an Illness as Norman Cousins
1983
A Case of Libel as Robert Sloane
1983
Daniel as Jacob Ascher
1983
Reading Rainbow as Self - Narrator (voice)
1982
Americas in Transition as Narrator
1982
Night of 100 Stars as Self
1982
O'Hara's Wife as Bob O'Hara
1981
The Marva Collins Story as Narrator (voice)
1981
A Small Killing as Simon Shaber
1981
Fort Apache, the Bronx as Connolly
1979
The Family Man as Eddie Madden
1978
The White Shadow as Edward Asner (uncredited)
1978
Mickey's 50 as Self
1978
The Good Doctor as Various Roles
1978
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney as Self
1978
A Different Approach
1977
The Gathering as Adam
1977
Lou Grant as Lou Grant
1977
The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish as Huey P. Long
1977
Roots as Thomas Davies
1977
Roots as Capt. Thomas Davies
1976
Gus as Hank Cooper
1976
Rich Man, Poor Man as Axel Jordache
1975
Hey, I'm Alive as Ralph Flores
1975
Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975
Saturday Night Live as Self (uncredited)
1975
Death Scream as Peter Singleton
1975
The Impersonation Murder Case as Dt. Ed Ames
1975
Mitzi & 100 Guys as Self
1975
The Impostor as Barney West
1975
Twigs as Phil
1974
Dinah! as Self
1974
Rhoda
1974
The Wrestler as Frank Bass
1973
The Girl Most Likely To... as Det. Ralph Varone
1973
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts as Self
1973
Match Game as Self
1973
Police Story
1972
Haunts of the Very Rich as Al Hunsicker
1972
Sam Cade
1971
They Call It Murder as Chief Otto Larkin
1971
The Todd Killings as Fred Reardon
1971
The Last Child as Barstow
1971
Skin Game as Plunkett
1971
Great Performances
1970
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf as Dr. Morheim
1970
The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Lou Grant
1970
The Flip Wilson Show as Self
1970
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! as Woody Garfield
1970
Halls of Anger as Ernie McKay
1970
House on Greenapple Road as Sheriff Muntz
1969
Daughter of the Mind as Saul Wiener
1969
Change of Habit as Lt. Moretti
1969
Medical Center
1968
The Mod Squad
1968
The Mod Squad as Harry Loring
1968
Hawaii Five-O as August March
1968
The Name of the Game as Cesare Marino
1968
The Name of the Game as Vince Leonard
1967
Gunn as Lt. Jacoby
1967
Ironside
1967
The Venetian Affair as Frank Rosenfeld
1967
The Invaders as Taugus
1967
The Invaders as Harry Ferguson
1966
El Dorado as Bart Jason
1966
The Doomsday Flight as Feldman
1966
CBS Playhouse
1966
Mission: Impossible as George Simpson
1966
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as George Kramer
1966
The Rat Patrol as Captain Friedrich
1966
Felony Squad
1965
The Slender Thread as Det. Judd Ridley
1965
The F.B.I. as John Carl Brock
1965
The F.B.I. as Walter Gretzler
1965
The F.B.I. as Pete Zacharias
1965
The Wild Wild West as Furman Crotty
1965
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1965
Run for Your Life as Carl Cappi
1965
The Satan Bug as Henchman Veretti
1964
Profiles in Courage as Oliver E. Wells
1964
Profiles in Courage as President Ulysses S. Grant
1964
Slattery's People as Frank Radcliff
1964
Fanfare for a Death Scene as Pike
1963
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Mr. Novak as Harmon Stern
1963
Mr. Novak as Paul Berg
1963
Burke's Law as Pablo Vasquez
1963
The Fugitive as Roy Malinek
1963
The Fugitive as Sheriff Mayhew
1963
The Fugitive as Joe Bantam
1963
The Outer Limits as Detective Sgt. Thomas Siroleo
1963
The Lieutenant
1962
Kid Galahad as Assistant District Attorney Frank Gerson (uncredited)
1962
The Eleventh Hour
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962
Stoney Burke as Kapp
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Jack Stander
1962
The Virginian as George Johnson
1962
Sam Benedict as Dr. Everett Colner
1961
The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961
The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host
1961
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
Dr. Kildare as Dr. Frank Williams
1961
Cain's Hundred as Dave Keller
1961
The Defenders as Tim Sellers
1961
The Defenders as Harry Obermayer
1961
The Murder Men as Dave Keller
1960
Route 66
1960
Route 66 as Second Man
1960
Outlaws
1960
J-24
1960
The New Girl as Kurt Harden
1959
The Untouchables as Fedor Bartok
1959
The Untouchables as Frank
1959
The Untouchables as Jimmy Canada
1958
Naked City as Lt. Vincent Busti
1957
Decoy as Sergeant
1957
The Night America Trembled as 3rd Actor (as Edward Asner)
1957
The Defender (Studio One) as Juror (uncredited)
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Warden Bragan
1955
Gunsmoke as Sgt. Wilks
1955
Gunsmoke as Redmond
1952
Omnibus
1949
The Emmy Awards as Self
1948
Studio One as Actor #3
1944
Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
1944
Golden Globe Awards as Self
1944
Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
1944
Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner
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Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary as Self (archive footage)
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A Man and His Prostate