Actor · Acting

Ed Asner

Born 1929-11-15

Died 2021-08-29

📍 Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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 388

The Gettysburg Address

as Edward Everett (voice)

Altered Reality

A Fargo Christmas Story

as Carl (voice)

Being Mary Tyler Moore

as Self (voice)

Commitment to Life

as Self (archive footage)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

as Grandpa Heffley (voice)

Back Home Again

as Peter Lionsbridge (voice)

Muppets Haunted Mansion

as Ghost of Claude

as Carl (voice)

Senior Entourage

Bury Me in Armor

as Dimitry George

The Holiday Movies That Made Us

Rain Beau's End

The Garden Left Behind

as Ambrose (voice)

M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters

as Dr. Howard Arden

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Faith, Hope & Love

as Harry Karetas

as Hospital Patient

All of My Heart: The Wedding

Honor Amongst Men

The Parting Glass

Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting

as Sid Weinberg

Ballmastrz: 9009

as Rupert T. Digzfield (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

as Self (archive footage)

And the Winner Isn't

A StoryBots Christmas

Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas!

Saving Christmas

All of My Heart: Inn Love

Yamasong: March of the Hollows

as Elder Pyreez (voice)

CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels!

as Arthur (voice)

Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man

as Adult Walter (voice)

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

Mary Jane: A Musical Potumentary

as Corporate Manager

Getting Ed Laid

Love Finds You in Valentine

as Gabriel Morgan

A Merry Murdoch Christmas

as Kris Kringle

Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts

Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration

as Self / Lou Grant (archive footage)

Celebrity Family Feud

The Nutcracker Sweet

Grace and Frankie

I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!

All of My Heart

Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas

as Santa (voice)

as Grandpa (voice)

The Games Maker

as Nicholas Drago

as April's grandfather

I Know That Voice

Christmas on the Bayou

Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving

Axel: The Biggest Little Hero

as Bonta / Narrator (voice)

Teen Titans Go!

as Sgt. Mike Cosgrove (voice)

Home Alone: The Holiday Heist

Autism and Cake

as Mr. Leonard (voice)

Should've Been Romeo

as Yaakov Washington

Too Big to Fail

as Warren Buffett

Absolute Killers

Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays

as Dr. Wasserman

Not Another B Movie

as Angry Investor

Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7

Hopelessly in June

The Desert of Forbidden Art

as Hank Greziak

All Star Superman

as Perry White (voice)

as Kent Nelson (voice)

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse

as Granny Goodness (voice)

as August March

as Santa Claus (voice)

Hot in Cleveland

Christmas Dreams

Dug's Special Mission

as Carl Fredricksen (voice) (uncredited)

The Cleveland Show

as Guy Redmayne

as Carl Fredricksen (voice)

as Carl Fredricksen (voice)

American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist

Shatner's Raw Nerve

Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union

as Narrator (Voice)

Christmas Cottage

as Kirby Weathersby

Electile Dysfunction: Inside the Business of American Campaigns

The Spectacular Spider-Man

as Ben Parker (voice)

as Golden Hands Segal

Christmas Is Here Again

as Krad (voice)

Andy Barker, P.I.

as Mickey Doyle

The Sarah Silverman Program.

as Commandant Von Reichenstein

The Christmas Card

as Luke Spelman

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

as Wilson White

as Ed Wuncler (voice)

as Rufus Tucker

Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class

Spider-Man: The Venom Saga

as J. Jonah Jameson

Out of the Woods

as Narrator (voice)

as TV Guide Editor-in-Chief (voice)

as Mailbox #2 (voice)

as Grandpa Smith (voice)

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

Center of the Universe

Missing Brendan

as George Calden

as Abraham Klein

Justice League Unlimited

as Hephaestus (voice)

Justice League Unlimited

as Granny Goodness (voice)

Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock

as J Jonah Jameson

Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure

as Capt. J.W. 'Will' Fritz

Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure

as Narrator (voice)

Spider-Man: The New Animated Series

as Officer Barr (voice)

The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay

as Augie Sinclair

Daredevil vs. Spider-Man

as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

The Man Who Saved Christmas

as Charles Gilbert

as Marty Bracknell

Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown

as J. Jonah Jameson

Remembering Roots

The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It

Pope John XXIII

as Angelo Roncalli

Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII

Gahan Wilson's The Kid

In Search of Peace

as David Ben Gurion (voice)

as Chief Wilson

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

as Fixer (voice)

as Davis Aldrich

Above Suspicion

as Thomas O'Claire

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

as Chuck Marshak (voice)

Snowden's Christmas

as Big Daddy (voice)

Olive, the Other Reindeer

as Santa Claus (voice)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Martin Schultz

Love and Action in Chicago

The Sissy Duckling

as Father Duck (voice)

as Steve Bellows (voice)

Our Friend, Martin

as Mr. Harris (voice)

O' Christmas Tree

as Nutcracker (voice)

The Wild Thornberrys

as Frank Hunter (voice)

as Mentor (voice)

More Tales of the City

as Jack Lederer

as Uncle Charlie

A Christmas Carol

as Marley (voice)

The Long Way Home

as George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice)

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

as Dr. Robert Servatius (voice)

The Angry Beavers

Dog's Best Friend

as Jeep, the Sheep Dog (voice)

as Judge Matlin Pratt

as Judge Marcus Winnaker

as Jack Patkanis

King of the Hill

as Stinky (voice)

The Fumbleheads

as Charlie Atwater

Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade

The Story of Santa Claus

as Santa Claus (voice)

as The Engineer (voice)

Superman: The Animated Series

as Granny Goodness (voice)

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

as Von Romme (voice)

E! True Hollywood Story

as Lenny Crowley

Gone in the Night

as Det. John Waters

Dumb and Dumber

as General / St. Nick / Old Woman (voice)

as Sgt. Cosgrove (voice)

Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger

Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken

as Hudson (voice)

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)

as Hudson (voice)

as Charles Thompson

Touched by an Angel

as James McNulty

The Magic School Bus

as Gen. Aranius (voice)

Down on the Waterfront

as Mort Sidelman (voice)

Intimate Portrait

as Vern (voice)

Politically Incorrect

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy

Earth and the American Dream

as Reader (voice)

as Zigmund Klarik

as George Lahti

Batman: The Animated Series

as Roland Daggett (voice)

as Chief Abalone (voice)

as Guy Bannister

Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

as Edward P. Mitchell

Switched at Birth

as Evil Georgie (voice)

Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show

The Real Story of Happy Birthday To You

as Charlie (voice)

The Cops Are Robbers

The Trials of Rosie O'Neill

as Walter Kovacs

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

as Hoggish Greedly (voice)

Night of 100 Stars III

as Editor (voice)

Happily Ever After

as Scowl the Owl (voice)

Moon Over Parador

A Friendship in Vienna

as Opah Oskar Reikman

Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night

as Scalawag (voice)

The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

as Self - Presenter

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

The Christmas Star

as Horace McNickle

Joshua and the Battle of Jericho

as Joshua (voice)

Darlin' Clementine

Tall Tales & Legends

Tender Is the Night

as Devereux Warren

Night of 100 Stars II

Donald Duck's 50th Birthday

Highway to Heaven

Anatomy of an Illness

as Norman Cousins

A Case of Libel

as Robert Sloane

as Jacob Ascher

Reading Rainbow

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Self (archive footage)

Americas in Transition

Night of 100 Stars

The Marva Collins Story

as Narrator (voice)

A Small Killing

as Simon Shaber

Fort Apache, the Bronx

as Eddie Madden

The White Shadow

as Edward Asner (uncredited)

The Good Doctor

as Various Roles

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

A Different Approach

The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish

as Huey P. Long

as Thomas Davies

as Capt. Thomas Davies

Rich Man, Poor Man

as Axel Jordache

as Ralph Flores

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

as Self (uncredited)

as Peter Singleton

The Impersonation Murder Case

Mitzi & 100 Guys

The Girl Most Likely To...

as Det. Ralph Varone

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

Haunts of the Very Rich

as Al Hunsicker

They Call It Murder

as Chief Otto Larkin

The Todd Killings

as Fred Reardon

Great Performances

The Old Man Who Cried Wolf

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Flip Wilson Show

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

as Woody Garfield

House on Greenapple Road

as Sheriff Muntz

Daughter of the Mind

Change of Habit

as Harry Loring

as August March

The Name of the Game

as Cesare Marino

The Name of the Game

as Vince Leonard

as Marlon Davis

as Harry Ferguson

The Doomsday Flight

The Venetian Affair

as Frank Rosenfeld

Mission: Impossible

as George Simpson

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

as George Kramer

as Captain Friedrich

The Slender Thread

as Det. Judd Ridley

as John Carl Brock

as Walter Gretzler

as Pete Zacharias

The Wild Wild West

as Furman Crotty

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Run for Your Life

as Henchman Veretti

Slattery's People

as Frank Radcliff

Fanfare for a Death Scene

as Harmon Stern

as Pablo Vasquez

as Sheriff Mayhew

The Outer Limits

as Detective Sgt. Thomas Siroleo

as Assistant District Attorney Frank Gerson (uncredited)

The Eleventh Hour

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Merv Griffin Show

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Jack Stander

as George Johnson

as Dr. Everett Colner

The Mike Douglas Show

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self - Co-Host

Target: The Corruptors!

as Dr. Frank Williams

as Harry Obermayer

The Untouchables

as Fedor Bartok

The Untouchables

The Untouchables

as Jimmy Canada

as Lt. Vincent Busti

The Night America Trembled

as 3rd Actor (as Edward Asner)

The Defender (Studio One)

as Juror (uncredited)

as Self - Presenter

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Warden Bragan

as Carl Fredricksen (voice)

The Emmy Awards

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Golden Globe Awards

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Winner

A Man and His Prostate

as Dr. Eaton (voice)