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Personal Info

Birth date

1929-11-15 (95 Years)

Day of death

2021-08-29

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Also known as

Eddie Asner
愛德華·阿斯納
エド・アズナー
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Edward Asner

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.

Filmography

Acting

TBAUntitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary as Self (archive footage)

TBAEverbrook (The Home) as Unknown

TBAEd Asner's Oral History as Self - Interviewee

TBAA Man and His Prostate as Unknown

2025The Gettysburg Address as Edward Everett (voice)

2024Altered Reality as Mike Wilson

2023A Fargo Christmas Story as Popcorn Bud

2023Carl's Date as Carl (voice)

2023Being Mary Tyler Moore as Self (voice)

2022Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules as Grandpa Heffley (voice)

2021Scarlett as Unknown

2021Back Home Again as Peter Lionsbridge (voice)

2021Muppets Haunted Mansion as Ghost of Claude

2021The Premise (1 Episode) as Mr. Holmes

2021Dug Days (5 Episodes) as Carl (voice)

2021Senior Entourage as Ed

2021Blood as The Prophet

2020Tiger Within as Samuel

2020Bury Me in Armor as Dimitry George

2020SEVEN as Unknown

2020The Holiday Movies That Made Us (1 Episode) as Self

2020Rain Beau's End as Gunny

2020The Garden Left Behind as Dr. Cleary

2020Central Park (2 Episodes) as Ambrose (voice)

2020M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters as Dr. Howard Arden

2019In Vino as Charles

2019The Kelly Clarkson Show (1 Episode) as Self

2019Dead to Me (5 Episodes) as Abe Rifkin

2019Faith, Hope & Love as Harry Karetas

2019Doom Patrol (1 Episode) as Hospital Patient

2018Olympia as Himself

2018All of My Heart: The Wedding as Vern

2018Honor Amongst Men as Pop Halmo

2018Angels on Tap as Swifty

2018The Parting Glass as Tommy

2018Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting as Jefferson

2018Cobra Kai (3 Episodes) as Sid Weinberg

2018Ballmastrz: 9009 (1 Episode) as Rupert T. Digzfield (voice)

2018Eva: A-7063 as Narrator (voice)

2018LA DA Story as Self (archive footage)

2017And the Winner Isn't as Self

2017A StoryBots Christmas as Santa

2017Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas! as Santa

2017Saving Christmas as Rick

2017The Gliksmans as Moshe

2017All of My Heart: Inn Love as Vern

2017Yamasong: March of the Hollows as Elder Pyreez (voice)

2017CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels! as Arthur (voice)

2017Joe's War as Harry

2017Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man as Adult Walter (voice)

2016The Best Democracy Money Can Buy as Self

2016MacGyver (1 Episode) as Saul

2016Titanic: Sinking the Myths as Wilhelm Müller

2016Mary Jane: A Musical Potumentary as Corporate Manager

2016Super Sex as George

2016Getting Ed Laid as Ed Randall

2016Love Meet Hope as Mr. James

2016Love Finds You in Valentine as Gabriel Morgan

2016Behind the Fear as Narrator (voice)

2015A Merry Murdoch Christmas as Kris Kringle

2015Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts as Self

2015Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration as Self / Lou Grant (archive footage)

2015Celebrity Family Feud (1 Episode) as Self

2015The Nutcracker Sweet as Owl (voice)

2015Grace and Frankie (2 Episodes) as Howard Jay

2015I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!! as Himself

2015All of My Heart as Vern

2014Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas as Santa (voice)

2014Frozen in Time as Grandpa (voice)

2014The Games Maker as Nicholas Drago

2014Chasing Life (1 Episode) as April's grandfather

2014Waiting in the Wings: The Musical as Jefferson

2014Audrey as Walt

2014I Know That Voice as Self

2013Christmas on the Bayou as Papa Noel

2013Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving as Mr Wilson

2013The Crazy Ones (1 Episode) as Mr. Finger

2013Mom (1 Episode) as Jack

2013Axel: The Biggest Little Hero as Bonta / Narrator (voice)

2013American Road as Walt Whitman

2013Second Chances as Chief Buddy

2013Teen Titans Go! (1 Episode) as Sgt. Mike Cosgrove (voice)

2012Home Alone: The Holiday Heist as Mr. Carson

2012Casting By as Self

2012Autism and Cake as Fred

2012Liberator as President Whitlock

2012Foodfight! as Mr. Leonard (voice)

2012Elephant Sighs as Leo

2012Men At Work (1 Episode) as Bob

2012Should've Been Romeo as Charlie

2012Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl as Self

2011The True Story of the Amityville Murders: From Homicide to Horror as Narrator

2011Identical as Yaakov Washington

2011Too Big to Fail as Warren Buffett

2011Let Go as Artie

2011Absolute Killers as Unknown

2011Good Men as Morty

2011Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays (12 Episodes) as Dr. Wasserman

2011Not Another B Movie as Angry Investor

2011Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7 as Himself

2011Hopelessly in June as Rabbi

2011The Desert of Forbidden Art as Voice

2011Working Class (12 Episodes) as Hank Greziak

2011All Star Superman as Perry White (voice)

2010Young Justice (1 Episode) as Kent Nelson (voice)

2010The Triumph of William Henry Harrison as Unknown

2010Superman/Batman: Apocalypse as Granny Goodness (voice)

2010Hawaii Five-0 (2 Episodes) as August March

2010Regular Show (1 Episode) as Santa Claus (voice)

2010Hot in Cleveland (1 Episode) as Jameson

2009Dug's Special Mission as Carl Fredricksen (voice) (uncredited)

2009The Middle (1 Episode) as Ben

2009The Cleveland Show (5 Episodes) as Unknown

2009Modern Family (1 Episode) as Herschel

2009The Good Wife (2 Episodes) as Guy Redmayne

2009Up as Carl Fredricksen (voice)

2009Up: Upisodes (3 Episodes) as Carl Fredricksen (voice)

2009The Line (15 Episodes) as Unknown

2008Shatner's Raw Nerve (1 Episode) as Self

2008Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union as Narrator (Voice)

2008Generation Gap as Bart Cahill

2008Christmas Cottage as Sidney

2008Gigantic as Kirby Weathersby

2008The Spectacular Spider-Man (1 Episode) as Ben Parker (voice)

2008Channels as Ed Packard

2007Hard Four as Golden Hands Segal

2007Christmas Is Here Again as Krad (voice)

2007Andy Barker, P.I. (1 Episode) as Mickey Doyle

2007From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks as Unknown

2007The Sarah Silverman Program. (1 Episode) as Commandant Von Reichenstein

2007The Rich Have Their Own Photographers as Unknown

2006The Christmas Card as Luke Spelman

2006Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (1 Episode) as Wilson White

2005The Boondocks (3 Episodes) as Ed Wuncler (voice)

2005Crab Orchard as Unknown

2005Bones (1 Episode) as Rufus Tucker

2005Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class as Narrator

2005The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror as Himself

2005Spider-Man: The Venom Saga as J. Jonah Jameson

2005Sir! No Sir! as Col. Heinl

2005Out of the Woods as Jack Green

2005Sleeping Dogs Lie as Sheriff Delaney

2005American Dad! (1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as TV Guide Editor-in-Chief (voice), Narrator (voice), Mailbox #2 (voice), Grandpa Smith (voice)

2004Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde as Self

2004Center of the Universe (15 Episodes) as Art Barnett

2004Missing Brendan as George Calden

2004CSI: NY (1 Episode) as Abraham Klein

2004Justice League Unlimited (1, 1 Episode) as Hephaestus (voice), Granny Goodness (voice)

2004Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock as J Jonah Jameson

2003National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie’s Island Adventure as Uncle Nick

2003Elf as Santa

2003The Commission as Capt. J.W. 'Will' Fritz

2003Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure as Narrator (voice)

2003Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (4 Episodes) as Officer Barr (voice)

2003The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay as Augie Sinclair

2003Daredevil vs. Spider-Man as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)

2003The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series as Self

2002The Man Who Saved Christmas as Charles Gilbert

2002The Dead Zone (1 Episode) as Marty Bracknell

2002The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion as Self

2002Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown as J. Jonah Jameson

2002The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It as Narrator

2002Pope John XXIII as Angelo Roncalli

2002Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII as Jean XXIII

2001Gahan Wilson's The Kid as Dead Cat

2001In Search of Peace as David Ben Gurion (voice)

2001The Animal as Chief Wilson

2001Island Prey as Jay Roth

2000Curb Your Enthusiasm (1 Episode) as Mr. Weiner

2000Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom as Self

2000Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (1 Episode) as Fixer (voice)

2000Becoming Dick as Davis Aldrich

2000The Huntress (1 Episode) as Unknown

2000Above Suspicion as Thomas O'Claire

2000The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story as Unknown

2000Perfect Game as Billy Hicks

2000Max Steel (13 Episodes) as Chuck Marshak (voice)

2000Common Ground as Ira

2000Bring Him Home as Geza

1999Snowden's Christmas as (voice)

1999Olive, The Other Reindeer as Santa Claus (voice)

1999The Bachelor as Gluckman

1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 Episode) as Martin Schultz

1999Love and Action in Chicago as Taylor

1999The Sissy Duckling as Father Duck (voice)

1999Family Guy (1 Episode) as Steve Bellows (voice)

1999Our Friend, Martin as Mr. Harris (voice) (as Ed Asner)

1999O' Christmas Tree as Nutcracker (voice)

1998Maggie Winters (1 Episode) as Unknown

1998The Wild Thornberrys (1 Episode) as Frank Hunter (voice)

1998Hercules (1 Episode) as Mentor (voice)

1998More Tales of the City (1 Episode) as Jack Lederer

1998The Closer (10 Episodes) as Unknown

1998Hard Rain as Uncle Charlie

1997A Christmas Carol as Marley (voice)

1997Academy Boyz as Unknown

1997Dharma & Greg (1 Episode) as Earl Tucker

1997The Long Way Home as George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice)

1997Johnny Bravo (1 Episode) as Unknown

1997The Trial of Adolf Eichmann as Dr. Robert Servatius (voice)

1997The Angry Beavers (1 Episode) as Unknown

1997Dog's Best Friend as Jeep, the Sheep Dog (voice)

1997The Practice (1, 3 Episode) as Judge Matlin Pratt, Judge Marcus Winnaker

1997Payback as Jack Patkanis

1997King of the Hill (2 Episodes) as Stinky (voice)

1997The Fumbleheads as Charlie Atwater

1996The Story of Santa Claus as Santa Claus (voice)

1996Superman: The Animated Series (4 Episodes) as Granny Goodness (voice)

1996The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1 Episode) as Von Romme (voice)

1996E! True Hollywood Story (2 Episodes) as Unknown

1996Arliss (1 Episode) as Unknown

1996Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken as Hudson (voice)

1996Gone in the Night as Det. John Waters

1996Hanged on a Twisted Cross as Narrator

1995Freakazoid! (24 Episodes) as Sgt. Cosgrove (voice)

1995Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger as Unknown

1995Goldilocks and the Three Bears as Bruno

1994Spider-Man (65 Episodes) as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)

1994Gargoyles (78, 1 Episode) as Hudson (voice), Jack Danforth (voice)

1994Touched by an Angel (1 Episode) as Bud

1994ER (3 Episodes) as Dr. James McNulty

1994The Magic School Bus (1 Episode) as (voice)

1994Down on the Waterfront as Unknown

1994Thunder Alley (29 Episodes) as Gil Jones

1994Duckman (1 Episode) as Mort Sidelman (voice)

1994Heads as Ab Abbot

1993Gypsy as Charles Thompson

1993Intimate Portrait (2 Episodes) as Self

1993The X-Files (1 Episode) as Maurice

1993Politically Incorrect (1 Episode) as Unknown

1993Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy as Self

1992Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)

1992Mad About You (3 Episodes) as Zigmund Klarik

1992Hearts Afire (12 Episodes) as George Lahti

1992Batman: The Animated Series (5 Episodes) as Roland Daggett (voice)

1992Cruel Doubt (2 Episodes) as Bill Osteen

1992Fish Police (6 Episodes) as Unknown

1991JFK as Guy Bannister

1991Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus as Edward P. Mitchell

1991Silent Motive as Sam

1991Switched at Birth as Ted Marx

1991Dinosaurs (1 Episode) as Evil Georgie (voice)

1991Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show as Himself

1991The Real Story of Happy Birthday To You as Charlie (voice)

1990The Cops Are Robbers as Unknown

1990The Trials of Rosie O'Neill (16 Episodes) as Walter Kovacs

1990Captain Planet and the Planeteers (20 Episodes) as Hoggish Greedly (voice)

1990Night of 100 Stars III as Self

1990Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less as Harvey Metcalfe

1989The Simpsons (1 Episode) as Editor (voice)

1989Happily Ever After as Scowl the Owl (voice)

1988Roseanne (1 Episode) as Unknown

1988Moon Over Parador as Self

1988A Friendship in Vienna as Opah Oskar Reikman

1987Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night as Scalawag (voice)

1987The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood (6 Episodes) as Self - Presenter

1987Cracked Up as Rev. Vincent Owens

1987Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self

1987The Bronx Zoo (21 Episodes) as Unknown

1986The Christmas Star as Horace McNickle

1986Kate's Secret as Dr. Resnick

1986Joshua and the Battle of Jericho as Joshua (voice)

1986Vital Signs as Matthew St James

1986Darlin' Clementine as Lucky Jake

1985Tall Tales & Legends (1 Episode) as Lucky Jake

1985Tender Is the Night (6 Episodes) as Devereux Warren

1985Off the Rack (6 Episodes) as Sam Waltman

1985Night of 100 Stars II as Self

1984Donald Duck's 50th Birthday as Self

1984Highway to Heaven (1 Episode) as Unknown

1984Anatomy of an Illness as Norman Cousins

1983A Case of Libel as Robert Sloane

1983Daniel as Jacob Ascher

1983Reading Rainbow (1 Episode) as Himself - Narrator (voice)

1983Koyaanisqatsi as Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)

1982Americas in Transition as Narrator

1982Night of 100 Stars as Self

1982O'Hara's Wife as Bob O'Hara

1981The Marva Collins Story as Narrator (voice)

1981A Small Killing as Simon Shaber

1981Fort Apache, the Bronx as Connolly

1979The Family Man as Eddie Madden

1978The White Shadow (1 Episode) as Edward Asner (uncredited)

1978Mickey's 50 as Self

1978The Good Doctor as Various Roles

1978NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney as Self

1978A Different Approach as Unknown

1977The Gathering as Adam

1977Lou Grant (114 Episodes) as Lou Grant

1977The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish as Huey P. Long

1977Roots (1, 1 Episode) as Thomas Davies, Capt. Thomas Davies

1976Gus as Hank Cooper

1976Rich Man, Poor Man (12 Episodes) as Axel Jordache

1975Hey, I'm Alive as Ralph Flores

1975Saturday Night Live (1 Episode) as Self - Host

1975Death Scream as Peter Singleton

1975The Impersonation Murder Case as Dt. Ed Ames

1975Mitzi & 100 Guys as Self

1975The Impostor as Barney West

1975Twigs as Phil

1974Dinah! (1 Episode) as Self

1974Rhoda (2 Episodes) as Unknown

1974The Wrestler as Frank Bass

1973The Girl Most Likely To... as Det. Ralph Varone

1973The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts (1 Episode) as Self

1973Police Story (2 Episodes) as Unknown

1972Haunts of the Very Rich as Al Hunsicker

1972Sam Cade as Unknown

1971They Call It Murder as Chief Otto Larkin

1971The Todd Killings as Fred Reardon

1971The Last Child as Barstow

1971Skin Game as Plunkett

1971Great Performances (1 Episode) as Unknown

1970The Old Man Who Cried Wolf as Dr. Morheim

1970The Mary Tyler Moore Show (168 Episodes) as Lou Grant

1970The Flip Wilson Show (1 Episode) as Self

1970They Call Me Mister Tibbs! as Woody Garfield

1970Halls of Anger as Ernie McKay

1970House on Greenapple Road as Sheriff Muntz

1969Daughter of the Mind as Saul Wiener

1969Change of Habit as Lt. Moretti

1969Medical Center (1 Episode) as Unknown

1968The Mod Squad (3, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Harry Loring

1968Hawaii Five-O (1 Episode) as August March

1968The Name of the Game (1, 1 Episode) as Cesare Marino, Vince Leonard

1967Gunn as Lt. Jacoby

1967Ironside (1 Episode) as Unknown

1967The Venetian Affair as Frank Rosenfeld

1967The Invaders (1, 1 Episode) as Taugus, Harry Ferguson

1966El Dorado as Bart Jason

1966The Doomsday Flight as Feldman

1966CBS Playhouse (1 Episode) as Unknown

1966Mission: Impossible (1 Episode) as George Simpson

1966The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1 Episode) as Unknown

1966Felony Squad (2 Episodes) as Unknown

1966The Rat Patrol (1 Episode) as Captain Friedrich

1965The Slender Thread as Det. Judd Ridley

1965The F.B.I. (1, 1, 1 Episode) as John Carl Brock, Walter Gretzler, Pete Zacharias

1965The Wild Wild West (1 Episode) as Furman Crotty

1965Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1 Episode) as Unknown

1965Run for Your Life (1 Episode) as Carl Cappi

1965The Satan Bug as Henchman Veretti

1964Profiles in Courage (1, 1 Episode) as Oliver E. Wells, President Ulysses S. Grant

1964Slattery's People (36 Episodes) as Frank Radcliff

1964Fanfare for a Death Scene as Pike

1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1 Episode) as Unknown

1963Mr. Novak (1, 1 Episode) as Harmon Stern, Paul Berg

1963Burke's Law (1 Episode) as Pablo Vasquez

1963The Fugitive (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Roy Malinek, Sheriff Mayhew, Joe Bantam

1963The Outer Limits (1 Episode) as Detective Sgt. Thomas Siroleo

1963The Lieutenant (1 Episode) as Unknown

1962Kid Galahad as Assistant District Attorney Frank Gerson (uncredited)

1962The Eleventh Hour (1 Episode) as Unknown

1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (2 Episodes) as Self

1962Stoney Burke (1 Episode) as Kapp

1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1 Episode) as Jack Stander

1962The Virginian (1 Episode) as George Johnson

1961The Mike Douglas Show (2, 1 Episode) as Self, Self - Co-Host

1961Target: The Corruptors! (1 Episode) as Unknown

1961Dr. Kildare (1 Episode) as Dr. Frank Williams

1961Cain's Hundred (1 Episode) as Dave Keller

1961The Defenders (1, 1 Episode) as Tim Sellers, Harry Obermayer

1961The Murder Men as Dave Keller

1960Route 66 (5, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Second Man

1960Outlaws (1 Episode) as Unknown

1960J-24 as Unknown

1960The New Girl as Kurt Harden

1959The Untouchables (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Fedor Bartok, Frank, Jimmy Canada

1958Naked City (2 Episodes) as Lt. Vincent Busti

1957Decoy (1 Episode) as Sergeant

1957The Night America Trembled as 3rd Actor (as Edward Asner)

1957The Defender (Studio One) as Juror (uncredited)

1956Tony Awards (2 Episodes) as Self - Presenter

1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 Episode) as Warden Bragan

1955Gunsmoke (1, 1 Episode) as Sgt. Wilks, Redmond

1952Omnibus (1 Episode) as Unknown

1949The Emmy Awards (1 Episode) as Self

1948Studio One (1 Episode) as Actor #3

1944Golden Globe Awards (6, 1, 1 Episode) as Self - Nominee, Self, Self - Presenter

Crew

2022Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules ... In Memory Of

2021Back Home Again ... In Memory Of

2021Muppets Haunted Mansion ... In Memory Of

2019Dead to Me (1 Episode) ... In Memory Of

2010Young Justice (1 Episode) ... In Memory Of

1991Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier ... Thanks

Production

2011Let Go ... Executive Producer

1997Payback ... Executive Producer