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.
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
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