Ed Asner

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1929-11-15

Day of Death

2021-08-29

Place of Birth

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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 (234)

⭐ 0 Role: Edward Everett (voice)

The Gettysburg Address

⭐ 5.9 Role: Mike Wilson

Altered Reality

⭐ 0 Role: Popcorn Bud

A Fargo Christmas Story

⭐ 7.4 Role: Carl (voice)

Carl's Date

⭐ 6.6 Role: Self (voice)

Being Mary Tyler Moore

⭐ 0 Role: Self (archive footage)

Commitment to Life

⭐ 6.8 Role: Grandpa Heffley (voice)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

⭐ 0 Role: Lou

Scarlett

⭐ 7.0 Role: Peter Lionsbridge (voice)

Back Home Again

⭐ 6.4 Role: Ghost of Claude

Muppets Haunted Mansion

⭐ 2.0 Role: Ed

Senior Entourage

⭐ 0 Role: Grampa (voice)

Captain Daddy

⭐ 0 Role: The Prophet

Blood

⭐ 0 Role: Samuel

Tiger Within

⭐ 0 Role: Dimitry George

Bury Me in Armor

⭐ 8.8 Role: Unknown

SEVEN

⭐ 2.7 Role: Gunny

Rain Beau's End

⭐ 5.2 Role: Dr. Cleary

The Garden Left Behind

⭐ 5.9 Role: Dr. Howard Arden

M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters

⭐ 5.9 Role: Charles

In Vino

⭐ 7.5 Role: Harry Karetas

Faith, Hope & Love

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

Olympia

⭐ 7.4 Role: Vern

All of My Heart: The Wedding

⭐ 0 Role: Pop Halmo

Honor Amongst Men

⭐ 5.0 Role: Swifty

Angels on Tap

⭐ 5.4 Role: Tommy

The Parting Glass

⭐ 1.0 Role: Jefferson

Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting

⭐ 0 Role: Self - Interviewee

Ed Asner's Oral History

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator (voice)

Eva: A-7063

⭐ 10.0 Role: Self (archive footage)

LA DA Story

⭐ 6.2 Role: Self

And the Winner Isn't

⭐ 5.5 Role: Santa

A StoryBots Christmas

⭐ 4.9 Role: Santa

Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas!

⭐ 4.9 Role: Rick

Saving Christmas

⭐ 0 Role: Moshe

The Gliksmans

⭐ 6.9 Role: Vern

All of My Heart: Inn Love

⭐ 3.6 Role: Elder Pyreez (voice)

Yamasong: March of the Hollows

⭐ 3.9 Role: Arthur (voice)

CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels!

⭐ 2.5 Role: Harry

Joe's War

⭐ 0 Role: Adult Walter (voice)

Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man

⭐ 7.2 Role: Self

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

⭐ 0 Role: Wilhelm Müller

Titanic: Sinking the Myths

⭐ 0 Role: Corporate Manager

Mary Jane: A Musical Potumentary

⭐ 5.8 Role: George

Super Sex

⭐ 1.0 Role: Ed Randall

Getting Ed Laid

⭐ 7.0 Role: Mr. James

Love Meet Hope

⭐ 6.4 Role: Gabriel Morgan

Love Finds You in Valentine

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator (voice)

Behind the Fear

⭐ 7.6 Role: Kris Kringle

A Merry Murdoch Christmas

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts

⭐ 10.0 Role: Self / Lou Grant (archive footage)

Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration

⭐ 4.6 Role: Owl (voice)

The Nutcracker Sweet

⭐ 5.0 Role: Himself

I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!

⭐ 6.9 Role: Vern

All of My Heart

⭐ 5.3 Role: Santa (voice)

Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas

⭐ 4.4 Role: Grandpa (voice)

Frozen in Time

⭐ 5.3 Role: Nicholas Drago

The Games Maker

⭐ 1.0 Role: Walt

Audrey

⭐ 7.1 Role: Self

I Know That Voice

⭐ 6.1 Role: Papa Noel

Christmas on the Bayou

⭐ 7.5 Role: Mr Wilson

Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving

⭐ 2.8 Role: Bonta / Narrator (voice)

Axel: The Biggest Little Hero

⭐ 0 Role: Walt Whitman

American Road

⭐ 6.2 Role: Chief Buddy

Second Chances

⭐ 5.1 Role: Mr. Carson

Home Alone: The Holiday Heist

⭐ 6.9 Role: Self

Casting By

⭐ 0 Role: Fred

Autism and Cake

⭐ 7.7 Role: President Whitlock

Liberator

⭐ 2.0 Role: Mr. Leonard (voice)

Foodfight!

⭐ 2.3 Role: Leo

Elephant Sighs

⭐ 4.3 Role: Charlie

Should've Been Romeo

⭐ 6.0 Role: Self

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

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator

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

⭐ 4.0 Role: Yaakov Washington

Identical

⭐ 7.0 Role: Warren Buffett

Too Big to Fail

⭐ 4.9 Role: Artie

Let Go

⭐ 1.0 Role: Unknown

Absolute Killers

⭐ 0 Role: Morty

Good Men

⭐ 4.8 Role: Angry Investor

Not Another B Movie

⭐ 8.0 Role: Himself

Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7

⭐ 5.0 Role: Rabbi

Hopelessly in June

⭐ 4.7 Role: Voice

The Desert of Forbidden Art

⭐ 6.9 Role: Perry White (voice)

All Star Superman

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

The Triumph of William Henry Harrison

⭐ 7.1 Role: Granny Goodness (voice)

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse

⭐ 0 Role: Jerry

Christmas Dreams

⭐ 7.0 Role: Carl Fredricksen (voice) (uncredited)

Dug's Special Mission

⭐ 8.0 Role: Carl Fredricksen (voice)

Up

⭐ 0 Role: Self

American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator (Voice)

Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union

⭐ 7.2 Role: Bart Cahill

Generation Gap

⭐ 6.3 Role: Sidney

Christmas Cottage

⭐ 5.6 Role: Kirby Weathersby

Gigantic

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Electile Dysfunction: Inside the Business of American Campaigns

⭐ 3.0 Role: Ed Packard

Channels

⭐ 4.9 Role: Golden Hands Segal

Hard Four

⭐ 4.3 Role: Krad (voice)

Christmas Is Here Again

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From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks

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The Rich Have Their Own Photographers

⭐ 6.2 Role: Luke Spelman

The Christmas Card

⭐ 9.0 Role: Unknown

Crab Orchard

⭐ 4.5 Role: Narrator

Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class

⭐ 6.4 Role: Himself

The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror

⭐ 7.0 Role: J. Jonah Jameson

Spider-Man: The Venom Saga

⭐ 6.8 Role: Col. Heinl

Sir! No Sir!

⭐ 5.7 Role: Jack Green

Out of the Woods

⭐ 5.6 Role: Sheriff Delaney

Sleeping Dogs Lie

⭐ 6.0 Role: Self

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

⭐ 5.5 Role: George Calden

Missing Brendan

⭐ 7.0 Role: J Jonah Jameson

Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock

⭐ 4.0 Role: Uncle Nick

Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure

⭐ 6.7 Role: Santa

Elf

⭐ 4.5 Role: Capt. J.W. 'Will' Fritz

The Commission

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator (voice)

Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure

⭐ 5.9 Role: Augie Sinclair

The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay

⭐ 7.5 Role: J. Jonah Jameson (voice)

Daredevil vs. Spider-Man

⭐ 9.4 Role: Self

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

⭐ 6.2 Role: Charles Gilbert

The Man Who Saved Christmas

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion

⭐ 7.5 Role: J. Jonah Jameson

Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Remembering Roots

⭐ 7.5 Role: Narrator

The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It

⭐ 6.9 Role: Angelo Roncalli

Pope John XXIII

⭐ 0 Role: Jean XXIII

Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII

⭐ 8.0 Role: Dead Cat

Gahan Wilson's The Kid

⭐ 7.0 Role: David Ben Gurion (voice)

In Search of Peace

⭐ 5.1 Role: Chief Wilson

The Animal

⭐ 4.8 Role: Jay Roth

Island Prey

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom

⭐ 4.0 Role: Davis Aldrich

Becoming Dick

⭐ 5.8 Role: Thomas O'Claire

Above Suspicion

⭐ 9.0 Role: Unknown

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

⭐ 7.0 Role: Billy Hicks

Perfect Game

⭐ 5.0 Role: Ira

Common Ground

⭐ 7.7 Role: Geza

Bring Him Home

⭐ 0 Role: Big Daddy (voice)

Snowden's Christmas

⭐ 6.7 Role: Santa Claus (voice)

Olive, the Other Reindeer

⭐ 5.2 Role: Gluckman

The Bachelor

⭐ 4.9 Role: Taylor

Love and Action in Chicago

⭐ 5.1 Role: Father Duck (voice)

The Sissy Duckling

⭐ 7.1 Role: Mr. Harris (voice)

Our Friend, Martin

⭐ 5.4 Role: Nutcracker (voice)

O' Christmas Tree

⭐ 5.9 Role: Uncle Charlie

Hard Rain

⭐ 6.5 Role: Marley (voice)

A Christmas Carol

⭐ 4.5 Role: Unknown

Academy Boyz

⭐ 7.1 Role: George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice)

The Long Way Home

⭐ 6.1 Role: Dr. Robert Servatius (voice)

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

⭐ 3.0 Role: Jeep, the Sheep Dog (voice)

Dog's Best Friend

⭐ 6.8 Role: Jack Patkanis

Payback

⭐ 5.5 Role: Charlie Atwater

The Fumbleheads

⭐ 10.0 Role: Self

Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade

⭐ 6.6 Role: Santa Claus (voice)

The Story of Santa Claus

⭐ 9.0 Role: Narrator

Hanged on a Twisted Cross

⭐ 6.5 Role: Det. John Waters

Gone in the Night

⭐ 8.7 Role: Unknown

Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger

⭐ 7.0 Role: Hudson (voice)

Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken

⭐ 6.0 Role: Bruno

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

⭐ 6.3 Role: Charles Thompson

Gypsy

⭐ 6.5 Role: Unknown

Down on the Waterfront

⭐ 3.0 Role: Ab Abbot

Heads

⭐ 5.8 Role: Self

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy

⭐ 6.7 Role: Reader (voice)

Earth and the American Dream

⭐ 7.6 Role: Guy Bannister

JFK

⭐ 7.0 Role: Edward P. Mitchell

Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

⭐ 4.5 Role: Sam

Silent Motive

⭐ 7.0 Role: Himself

Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show

⭐ 9.0 Role: Charlie (voice)

The Real Story of Happy Birthday To You

⭐ 4.2 Role: Unknown

Good Cops, Bad Cops

⭐ 4.0 Role: Self

Night of 100 Stars III

⭐ 6.8 Role: Harvey Metcalfe

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

⭐ 5.9 Role: Scowl the Owl (voice)

Happily Ever After

⭐ 5.9 Role: Self

Moon Over Parador

⭐ 7.3 Role: Opah Oskar Reikman

A Friendship in Vienna

⭐ 5.5 Role: Scalawag (voice)

Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night

⭐ 7.0 Role: Rev. Vincent Owens

Cracked Up

⭐ 6.0 Role: Self

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

⭐ 5.6 Role: Horace McNickle

The Christmas Star

⭐ 6.3 Role: Dr. Resnick

Kate's Secret

⭐ 8.2 Role: Joshua (voice)

Joshua and the Battle of Jericho

⭐ 8.0 Role: Matthew St James

Vital Signs

⭐ 0 Role: Lucky Jake

Darlin' Clementine

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

Night of 100 Stars II

⭐ 6.7 Role: Self

Donald Duck's 50th Birthday

⭐ 7.0 Role: Norman Cousins

Anatomy of an Illness

⭐ 4.5 Role: Robert Sloane

A Case of Libel

⭐ 6.7 Role: Jacob Ascher

Daniel

⭐ 7.9 Role: Self (archive footage)

Koyaanisqatsi

⭐ 7.0 Role: Narrator

Americas in Transition

⭐ 6.8 Role: Self

Night of 100 Stars

⭐ 5.7 Role: Bob O'Hara

O'Hara's Wife

⭐ 7.4 Role: Narrator (voice)

The Marva Collins Story

⭐ 8.5 Role: Simon Shaber

A Small Killing

⭐ 6.5 Role: Connolly

Fort Apache, the Bronx

⭐ 8.0 Role: Eddie Madden

The Family Man

⭐ 9.0 Role: Self

Mickey's 50

⭐ 0.5 Role: Various Roles

The Good Doctor

⭐ 7.0 Role: Self

NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney

⭐ 6.5 Role: Unknown

A Different Approach

⭐ 5.0 Role: Adam

The Gathering

⭐ 7.0 Role: Huey P. Long

The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish

⭐ 6.0 Role: Hank Cooper

Gus

⭐ 6.7 Role: Ralph Flores

Hey, I'm Alive

⭐ 6.6 Role: Peter Singleton

Death Scream

⭐ 0 Role: Dt. Ed Ames

The Impersonation Murder Case

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Mitzi & 100 Guys

⭐ 7.5 Role: Barney West

The Impostor

⭐ 0 Role: Phil

Twigs

⭐ 5.0 Role: Frank Bass

The Wrestler

⭐ 6.6 Role: Det. Ralph Varone

The Girl Most Likely To...

⭐ 5.5 Role: Al Hunsicker

Haunts of the Very Rich

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Sam Cade

⭐ 5.4 Role: Chief Otto Larkin

They Call It Murder

⭐ 4.6 Role: Fred Reardon

The Todd Killings

⭐ 7.6 Role: Barstow

The Last Child

⭐ 6.6 Role: Plunkett

Skin Game

⭐ 6.8 Role: Dr. Morheim

The Old Man Who Cried Wolf

⭐ 5.9 Role: Woody Garfield

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

⭐ 5.3 Role: Ernie McKay

Halls of Anger

⭐ 7.4 Role: Sheriff Muntz

House on Greenapple Road

⭐ 6.7 Role: Saul Wiener

Daughter of the Mind

⭐ 5.4 Role: Lt. Moretti

Change of Habit

⭐ 5.6 Role: Lt. Jacoby

Gunn

⭐ 7.4 Role: Bart Jason

El Dorado

⭐ 6.5 Role: Feldman

The Doomsday Flight

⭐ 4.9 Role: Frank Rosenfeld

The Venetian Affair

⭐ 7.1 Role: Det. Judd Ridley

The Slender Thread

⭐ 6.1 Role: Henchman Veretti

The Satan Bug

⭐ 7.0 Role: Pike

Fanfare for a Death Scene

⭐ 6.1 Role: Assistant District Attorney Frank Gerson (uncredited)

Kid Galahad

⭐ 10.0 Role: Dave Keller

The Murder Men

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

J-24

⭐ 0 Role: Kurt Harden

The New Girl

⭐ 7.5 Role: 3rd Actor (as Edward Asner)

The Night America Trembled

⭐ 7.5 Role: Juror (uncredited)

The Defender (Studio One)