Ed Asner

Acting · Born 1929-11-15 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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.

Filmography

• JFK as Guy Bannister
• Carl's Date as Carl (voice)
• Muppets Haunted Mansion as Ghost of Claude
• Getting Ed Laid as Ed Randall
• The Bachelor as Gluckman
• Elf as Santa
• Skin Game as Plunkett
• Gus as Hank Cooper
• The Animal as Chief Wilson
• Hard Rain as Uncle Charlie