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Ed Asner

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: Acting

Born: Kansas City, Missouri, USA, 1929-11-15

Died: 2021-08-29

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Fanfare for a Death Scene	Pike	60
2	1965	The Satan Bug	Henchman Veretti	61
3	1965	The Slender Thread	Det. Judd Ridley	71
4	1966	El Dorado	Bart Jason	74
5	1967	The Venetian Affair	Frank Rosenfeld	49
6	1967	Gunn	Lt. Jacoby	54
7	1969	Change of Habit	Lt. Moretti	54
8	1969	Daughter of the Mind	Saul Wiener	64
9	1970	Halls of Anger	Ernie McKay	56
10	1970	They Call Me Mister Tibbs!	Woody Garfield	58
11	1971	Skin Game	Plunkett	66
12	1973	The Girl Most Likely To...	Det. Ralph Varone	66
13	1975	Mitzi & 100 Guys	Self	0
14	1976	Gus	Hank Cooper	60
15	1978	A Different Approach		63
16	1981	Fort Apache, the Bronx	Connolly	65
17	1983	Daniel	Jacob Ascher	66
18	1986	The Christmas Star	Horace McNickle	56
19	1988	Moon Over Parador	Self	58
20	1991	JFK	Guy Bannister	76
21	1993	Gypsy	Charles Thompson	64
22	1995	Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger		90
23	1997	A Christmas Carol	Marley (voice)	63
24	1998	Hard Rain	Uncle Charlie	58
25	1999	O' Christmas Tree	Nutcracker (voice)	51
26	1999	The Bachelor	Gluckman	52
27	1999	Olive, The Other Reindeer	Santa Claus (voice)	68
28	2001	The Animal	Chief Wilson	51
29	2002	Pope John XXIII	Angelo Roncalli	69
30	2002	The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion	Self	0
31	2002	The Man Who Saved Christmas	Charles Gilbert	59
32	2003	The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay	Augie Sinclair	59
33	2003	Elf	Santa	67
34	2004	Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde	Self	20
35	2005	Sleeping Dogs Lie	Sheriff Delaney	50
36	2005	Out of the Woods	Jack Green	52
37	2005	Sir! No Sir!	Col. Heinl	67
38	2005	The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror	Himself	62
39	2006	The Christmas Card	Luke Spelman	63
40	2007	Christmas Is Here Again	Krad (voice)	40
41	2007	Hard Four	Golden Hands Segal	44
42	2008	Gigantic	Kirby Weathersby	57
43	2008	Christmas Cottage	Sidney	63
44	2009	Up	Carl Fredricksen (voice)	80
45	2010	Superman/Batman: Apocalypse	Granny Goodness (voice)	72
46	2011	All Star Superman	Perry White (voice)	68
47	2011	Hopelessly in June	Rabbi	50
48	2011	Too Big to Fail	Warren Buffett	70
49	2012	Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl	Self	60
50	2013	Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving	Mr Wilson	75
51	2016	Getting Ed Laid	Ed Randall	10
52	2020	Tiger Within	Samuel	0
53	2021	Muppets Haunted Mansion	Ghost of Claude	64
54	2021	Back Home Again	Peter Lionsbridge (voice)	70
55	2021	Scarlett		0
56	2023	Being Mary Tyler Moore	Self (voice)	68
57	2023	Carl's Date	Carl (voice)	75
58		A Man and His Prostate		0
59	1957	The Defender (Studio One)	Juror (uncredited)	72
60	1960	J-24		0
61	1961	The Murder Men	Dave Keller	0
62	1962	Kid Galahad	Assistant District Attorney Frank Gerson (uncredited)	61
63	1966	The Doomsday Flight	Feldman	63
64	1970	House on Greenapple Road	Sheriff Muntz	60
65	1970	The Old Man Who Cried Wolf	Dr. Morheim	60
66	1971	The Last Child	Barstow	70
67	1971	The Todd Killings	Fred Reardon	43
68	1972	Haunts of the Very Rich	Al Hunsicker	57
69	1975	Twigs	Phil	0
70	1975	The Impostor	Barney West	60
71	1975	The Impersonation Murder Case	Dt. Ed Ames	0
72	1977	The Gathering	Adam	37
73	1982	Americas in Transition	Narrator	70
74	1984	Anatomy of an Illness	Norman Cousins	0
75	1985	Night of 100 Stars II	Self	80
76	1986	Darlin' Clementine	Lucky Jake	0
77	1986	Vital Signs	Matthew St James	90
78	1988	A Friendship in Vienna	Opah Oskar Reikman	60
79	1989	Happily Ever After	Scowl the Owl (voice)	56
80	1990	Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less	Harvey Metcalfe	62
81	1990	Night of 100 Stars III	Self	40
82	1991	Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus	Edward P. Mitchell	70
83	1994	Heads	Ab Abbot	22
84	1994	Down on the Waterfront		50
85	1996	Gone in the Night	Det. John Waters	65
86	1996	The Story of Santa Claus	Santa Claus (voice)	65
87	1997	Payback	Jack Patkanis	67
88	1997	The Long Way Home	George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice)	71
89	1999	Our Friend, Martin	Mr. Harris (voice) (as Ed Asner)	69
90	1999	Snowden's Christmas	(voice)	0
91	2000	Above Suspicion	Thomas O'Claire	57
92	2000	Becoming Dick	Davis Aldrich	20
93	2000	Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom	Self	0
94	2001	Island Prey	Jay Roth	55
95	2003	National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie’s Island Adventure	Uncle Nick	40
96	2005	Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class	Narrator	52
97	2007	The Rich Have Their Own Photographers		0
98	2008	Generation Gap	Bart Cahill	72
99	2010	The Triumph of William Henry Harrison		0
100	2011	The Desert of Forbidden Art	Voice	47
101	2011	Let Go	Artie	51
102	2012	Should've Been Romeo	Charlie	43
103	2012	Elephant Sighs	Leo	23
104	2012	Foodfight!	Mr. Leonard (voice)	19
105	2012	Autism and Cake	Fred	0
106	2012	Home Alone: The Holiday Heist	Mr. Carson	52
107	2013	Second Chances	Chief Buddy	62
108	2013	Axel: The Biggest Little Hero	Bonta / Narrator (voice)	28
109	2014	Audrey	Walt	10
110	2014	The Games Maker	Nicholas Drago	53
111	2014	Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas	Santa (voice)	54
112	2019	Faith, Hope & Love	Harry Karetas	75
113	2022	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules	Grandpa Heffley (voice)	68
114	2023	A Fargo Christmas Story	Popcorn Bud	0
115		Ed Asner's Oral History	Self - Interviewee	0
116	1957	The Night America Trembled	3rd Actor (as Edward Asner)	75
117	2013	Christmas on the Bayou	Papa Noel	60
118	2017	Yamasong: March of the Hollows	Elder Pyreez (voice)	35
119		Everbrook (The Home)		0
120	1960	The New Girl	Kurt Harden	0
121	1971	They Call It Murder	Chief Otto Larkin	54
122	1972	Sam Cade		0
123	1974	The Wrestler	Frank Bass	42
124	1975	Death Scream	Peter Singleton	66
125	1975	Hey, I'm Alive	Ralph Flores	50
126	1977	The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish	Huey P. Long	0
127	1978	NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney	Self	0
128	1978	The Good Doctor	Various Roles	5
129	1978	Mickey's 50	Self	0
130	1979	The Family Man	Eddie Madden	0
131	1981	A Small Killing	Simon Shaber	80
132	1981	The Marva Collins Story	Narrator (voice)	74
133	1982	O'Hara's Wife	Bob O'Hara	10
134	1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self	67
135	1983	Koyaanisqatsi	Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)	79
136	1983	A Case of Libel	Robert Sloane	20
137	1984	Donald Duck's 50th Birthday	Self	60
138	1986	Joshua and the Battle of Jericho	Joshua (voice)	82
139	1986	Kate's Secret	Dr. Resnick	60
140	1987	Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood	Self	57
141	1987	Cracked Up	Rev. Vincent Owens	0
142	1987	Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night	Scalawag (voice)	56
143	1990	The Cops Are Robbers		30
144	1991	The Real Story of Happy Birthday To You	Charlie (voice)	0
145	1991	Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show	Himself	60
146	1991	Switched at Birth	Ted Marx	66
147	1991	Silent Motive	Sam	10
148	1992	Earth and the American Dream	Reader (voice)	67
149	1993	Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy	Self	56
150	1995	Goldilocks and the Three Bears	Bruno	45
151	1996	Hanged on a Twisted Cross	Narrator	0
152	1996	Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken	Hudson (voice)	69
153	1997	The Fumbleheads	Charlie Atwater	30
154	1997	Dog's Best Friend	Jeep, the Sheep Dog (voice)	15
155	1997	The Trial of Adolf Eichmann	Dr. Robert Servatius (voice)	58
156	1997	Academy Boyz		35
157	1999	The Sissy Duckling	Father Duck (voice)	51
158	1999	Love and Action in Chicago	Taylor	50
159	2000	Bring Him Home	Geza	65
160	2000	Common Ground	Ira	49
161	2000	Perfect Game	Billy Hicks	63
162	2000	The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story		0
163	2001	In Search of Peace	David Ben Gurion (voice)	65
164	2001	Gahan Wilson's The Kid	Dead Cat	0
165	2002	Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII	Jean XXIII	0
166	2002	The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It	Narrator	60
167	2002	Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown	J. Jonah Jameson	74
168	2003	The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series	Self	94
169	2003	Daredevil vs. Spider-Man	J. Jonah Jameson (voice)	75
170	2003	Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure	Narrator (voice)	0
171	2003	The Commission	Capt. J.W. 'Will' Fritz	10
172	2004	Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock	J Jonah Jameson	70
173	2004	Missing Brendan	George Calden	45
174	2005	Spider-Man: The Venom Saga	J. Jonah Jameson	70
175	2005	Crab Orchard		100
176	2007	From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks		0
177	2008	Channels	Ed Packard	30
178	2008	Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union	Narrator (Voice)	0
179	2009	Dug's Special Mission	Carl Fredricksen (voice) (uncredited)	70
180	2011	Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7	Himself	80
181	2011	Not Another B Movie	Angry Investor	48
182	2011	Good Men	Morty	0
183	2011	Absolute Killers		0
184	2011	Identical	Yaakov Washington	43
185	2011	The True Story of the Amityville Murders: From Homicide to Horror	Narrator	0
186	2012	Liberator	President Whitlock	77
187	2012	Casting By	Self	71
188	2013	American Road	Walt Whitman	0
189	2014	I Know That Voice	Self	71
190	2014	Waiting in the Wings: The Musical	Jefferson	53
191	2014	Frozen in Time	Grandpa (voice)	44
192	2015	All of My Heart	Vern	70
193	2015	I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!	Himself	50
194	2015	The Nutcracker Sweet	Owl (voice)	46
195	2015	Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration	Self / Lou Grant (archive footage)	100
196	2015	Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts	Self	0
197	2015	A Merry Murdoch Christmas	Kris Kringle	76
198	2016	Behind the Fear	Narrator (voice)	0
199	2016	Love Finds You in Valentine	Gabriel Morgan	62
200	2016	Love Meet Hope	Mr. James	70
201	2016	Super Sex	George	58
202	2016	Mary Jane: A Musical Potumentary	Corporate Manager	0
203	2016	Titanic: Sinking the Myths	Wilhelm Müller	0
204	2016	The Best Democracy Money Can Buy	Self	72
205	2017	Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man	Adult Walter (voice)	0
206	2017	Joe's War	Harry	25
207	2017	CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels!	Arthur (voice)	40
208	2017	All of My Heart: Inn Love	Vern	70
209	2017	Saving Christmas	Rick	48
210	2017	Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas!	Santa	49
211	2017	A StoryBots Christmas	Santa	56
212	2017	And the Winner Isn't	Self	57
213	2018	LA DA Story	Self (archive footage)	100
214	2018	Eva: A-7063	Narrator (voice)	0
215	2018	Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting	Jefferson	10
216	2018	The Parting Glass	Tommy	54
217	2018	Angels on Tap	Swifty	50
218	2018	Honor Amongst Men	Pop Halmo	0
219	2018	All of My Heart: The Wedding	Vern	75
220	2018	Olympia	Himself	80
221	2019	In Vino	Charles	59
222	2020	M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters	Dr. Howard Arden	58
223	2020	The Garden Left Behind	Dr. Cleary	59
224	2020	Rain Beau's End	Gunny	35
225	2020	SEVEN		88
226	2020	Bury Me in Armor	Dimitry George	0
227	2021	Blood	The Prophet	0
228	2021	Senior Entourage	Ed	20
229	2024	Altered Reality	Mike Wilson	56
230	2025	The Gettysburg Address	Edward Everett (voice)	0
231		Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary	Self (archive footage)	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
3	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self	72
4	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
5	1948	Studio One	Actor #3	50
6	1949	The Emmy Awards	Self	79
7	1952	Omnibus		60
8	1955	Gunsmoke	Sgt. Wilks	66
9	1955	Gunsmoke	Redmond	66
10	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Warden Bragan	77
11	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
12	1957	Decoy	Sergeant	62
13	1958	Naked City	Lt. Vincent Busti	55
14	1959	The Untouchables	Fedor Bartok	79
15	1959	The Untouchables	Frank	79
16	1960	Outlaws		62
17	1960	Route 66		63
18	1960	Route 66	Second Man	63
19	1961	The Defenders	Tim Sellers	62
20	1961	The Defenders	Harry Obermayer	62
21	1961	Cain's Hundred	Dave Keller	47
22	1961	Dr. Kildare	Dr. Frank Williams	55
23	1961	Target: The Corruptors!		35
24	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
25	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self - Co-Host	54
26	1962	The Virginian	George Johnson	65
27	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Jack Stander	78
28	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
29	1962	Stoney Burke	Kapp	57
30	1962	The Eleventh Hour		60
31	1963	The Lieutenant		60
32	1963	The Outer Limits	Detective Sgt. Thomas Siroleo	78
33	1963	The Fugitive	Roy Malinek	72
34	1963	The Fugitive	Sheriff Mayhew	72
35	1963	The Fugitive	Joe Bantam	72
36	1963	Burke's Law	Pablo Vasquez	60
37	1963	Mr. Novak	Harmon Stern	65
38	1963	Mr. Novak	Paul Berg	65
39	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		57
40	1964	Slattery's People	Frank Radcliff	50
41	1964	Profiles in Courage	Oliver E. Wells	50
42	1964	Profiles in Courage	President Ulysses S. Grant	50
43	1965	Run for Your Life	Carl Cappi	72
44	1965	Please Don't Eat the Daisies		66
45	1965	The Wild Wild West	Furman Crotty	75
46	1965	The F.B.I.	John Carl Brock	55
47	1965	The F.B.I.	Walter Gretzler	55
48	1965	The F.B.I.	Pete Zacharias	55
49	1966	Felony Squad		64
50	1966	The Rat Patrol	Captain Friedrich	72
51	1966	The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.		66
52	1966	Mission: Impossible	George Simpson	76
53	1966	CBS Playhouse		70
54	1967	The Invaders	Taugus	68
55	1967	The Invaders	Harry Ferguson	68
56	1967	Ironside		68
57	1968	Hawaii Five-O	August March	71
58	1968	The Name of the Game	Cesare Marino	68
59	1968	The Name of the Game	Vince Leonard	68
60	1968	The Mod Squad		63
61	1968	The Mod Squad	Harry Loring	63
62	1969	Medical Center		61
63	1970	The Flip Wilson Show	Self	48
64	1970	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	Lou Grant	75
65	1971	Great Performances		53
66	1973	Police Story		69
67	1973	The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts	Self	54
68	1974	Rhoda		63
69	1974	Dinah!	Self	67
70	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
71	1976	Rich Man, Poor Man	Axel Jordache	78
72	1977	Roots	Thomas Davies	74
73	1977	Roots	Capt. Thomas Davies	74
74	1977	Lou Grant	Lou Grant	73
75	1978	The White Shadow	Edward Asner (uncredited)	70
76	1983	Reading Rainbow	Himself - Narrator (voice)	84
77	1984	Highway to Heaven		74
78	1985	Off the Rack	Sam Waltman	50
79	1985	Tender Is the Night	Devereux Warren	63
80	1985	Tall Tales & Legends	Lucky Jake	54
81	1987	The Bronx Zoo		50
82	1987	The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood	Self - Presenter	80
83	1988	Roseanne		68
84	1989	The Simpsons	Editor (voice)	80
85	1990	Captain Planet and the Planeteers	Hoggish Greedly (voice)	68
86	1990	The Trials of Rosie O'Neill	Walter Kovacs	53
87	1991	Dinosaurs	Evil Georgie (voice)	78
88	1992	Fish Police		54
89	1992	Cruel Doubt	Bill Osteen	44
90	1992	Batman: The Animated Series	Roland Daggett (voice)	85
91	1992	Hearts Afire	George Lahti	73
92	1992	Mad About You	Zigmund Klarik	67
93	1993	Politically Incorrect		59
94	1993	The X-Files	Maurice	84
95	1993	Intimate Portrait	Self	45
96	1994	Duckman		72
97	1994	Thunder Alley	Gil Jones	0
98	1994	The Magic School Bus	(voice)	76
99	1994	ER	Dr. James McNulty	78
100	1994	Touched by an Angel	Bud	72
101	1994	Gargoyles	Hudson (voice)	81
102	1994	Gargoyles	Jack Danforth (voice)	81
103	1994	Spider-Man	J. Jonah Jameson (voice)	83
104	1995	Freakazoid!	Sgt. Cosgrove (voice)	79
105	1996	Arliss		67
106	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81
107	1996	The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest	Von Romme (voice)	72
108	1996	Superman: The Animated Series	Granny Goodness (voice)	76
109	1997	King of the Hill	Stinky (voice)	74
110	1997	The Practice	Judge Matlin Pratt	77
111	1997	The Practice	Judge Marcus Winnaker	77
112	1997	The Angry Beavers		69
113	1997	Johnny Bravo		73
114	1997	Dharma & Greg	Earl Tucker	64
115	1998	The Closer		70
116	1998	More Tales of the City	Jack Lederer	75
117	1998	Hercules	Mentor (voice)	68
118	1998	The Wild Thornberrys	Frank Hunter (voice)	69
119	1998	Maggie Winters		100
120	1999	Family Guy	Steve Bellows (voice)	74
121	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Martin Schultz	79
122	2000	Max Steel	Chuck Marshak (voice)	82
123	2000	The Huntress		52
124	2000	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command	Fixer (voice)	65
125	2000	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Mr. Weiner	80
126	2002	The Dead Zone	Marty Bracknell	72
127	2003	Spider-Man: The New Animated Series	Officer Barr (voice)	72
128	2004	Justice League Unlimited	Hephaestus (voice)	83
129	2004	Justice League Unlimited	Granny Goodness (voice)	83
130	2004	CSI: NY	Abraham Klein	74
131	2004	Center of the Universe	Art Barnett	70
132	2005	American Dad!	Narrator (voice)	70
133	2005	American Dad!	TV Guide Editor-in-Chief (voice)	70
134	2005	American Dad!	Mailbox #2 (voice)	70
135	2005	American Dad!	Grandpa Smith (voice)	70
136	2005	Bones	Rufus Tucker	82
137	2005	The Boondocks	Ed Wuncler (voice)	81
138	2006	Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip	Wilson White	73
139	2007	The Sarah Silverman Program.	Commandant Von Reichenstein	64
140	2007	Andy Barker, P.I.	Mickey Doyle	72
141	2008	The Spectacular Spider-Man	Ben Parker (voice)	86
142	2008	Shatner's Raw Nerve	Self	40
143	2009	The Line		43
144	2009	Up: Upisodes	Carl Fredricksen (voice)	0
145	2009	The Good Wife	Guy Redmayne	76
146	2009	Modern Family	Herschel	79
147	2009	The Cleveland Show		59
148	2009	The Middle	Ben	76
149	2010	Hot in Cleveland	Jameson	74
150	2010	Regular Show	Santa Claus (voice)	86
151	2010	Hawaii Five-0	August March	78
152	2010	Young Justice	Kent Nelson (voice)	84
153	2011	Working Class	Hank Greziak	50
154	2011	Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays	Dr. Wasserman	48
155	2012	Men At Work	Bob	66
156	2013	Teen Titans Go!	Sgt. Mike Cosgrove (voice)	65
157	2013	Mom	Jack	73
158	2013	The Crazy Ones	Mr. Finger	61
159	2014	Chasing Life	April's grandfather	74
160	2015	Grace and Frankie	Howard Jay	77
161	2015	Celebrity Family Feud	Self	79
162	2016	MacGyver	Saul	73
163	2018	Ballmastrz: 9009	Rupert T. Digzfield (voice)	66
164	2018	Cobra Kai	Sid Weinberg	82
165	2019	Doom Patrol	Hospital Patient	76
166	2019	Dead to Me	Abe Rifkin	73
167	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show	Self	65
168	2020	Central Park	Ambrose (voice)	63
169	2020	The Holiday Movies That Made Us	Self	72
170	2021	Dug Days	Carl (voice)	74
171	2021	The Premise	Mr. Holmes	64