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)
• El Dorado as Bart Jason
• Up as Carl Fredricksen (voice)
• Superman/Batman: Apocalypse as Granny Goodness (voice)
• Too Big to Fail as Warren Buffett
• Dug's Special Mission as Carl Fredricksen (voice) (uncredited)
• Soul as 22 "I could sound like this if I wanted to" (voice) (uncredited)
• Muppets Haunted Mansion as Ghost of Claude
• Getting Ed Laid as Ed Randall

TV

• The Simpsons as Editor (voice)
• Gargoyles as Hudson (voice)
• The Boondocks as Ed Wuncler (voice)
• The Practice as Judge Matlin Pratt
• The X-Files as Maurice
• Superman: The Animated Series as Granny Goodness (voice)
• Freakazoid! as Sgt. Cosgrove (voice)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm as Mr. Weiner
• ER as Dr. James McNulty
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Warden Bragan