Edward Asner
Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929), commonly known as Ed Asner, is 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward Asner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Nov 15, 1929 In Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 169
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Night America Trembled 1957-09-09
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Gettysburg Address 2025-11-19
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Gettysburg Address | Edward Everett (voice) | 2025-11-19 |
| Movie | Altered Reality | 2024-02-16 | |
| Movie | A Fargo Christmas Story | Popcorn Bud | 2023-12-02 |
| Movie | Scarlett | 2021-12-31 | |
| Movie | The Garden Left Behind | 2020-08-28 | |
| Movie | In Vino | Charles | 2019-11-01 |
| Movie | The Parting Glass | 2018-06-24 | |
| Movie | LA DA Story | Self (archive footage) | 2018-01-01 |
| Movie | All of My Heart: The Wedding | Vern | 2018-09-29 |
| Movie | Olympia | Himself | 2018-11-11 |
| Movie | CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels! | Arthur (voice) | 2017-09-07 |
| Movie | Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man | Adult Walter (voice) | 2017-01-28 |
| Movie | Yamasong: March of the Hollows | Elder Pyreez | 2017-09-10 |
| Movie | Joe's War | Harry | 2017-03-17 |
| Movie | Saving Christmas | Rick | 2017-11-06 |
| Movie | And the Winner Isn't | Self | 2017-12-08 |
| Movie | All of My Heart: Inn Love | Vern | 2017-10-07 |
| Movie | A StoryBots Christmas | Santa | 2017-12-01 |
| Movie | Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas! | Santa | 2017-11-21 |
| Movie | Super Sex | George | 2016-04-15 |
| Movie | Love Finds You in Valentine | Gabriel Morgan | 2016-02-14 |
| Movie | Titanic: Sinking the Myths | Wilhelm Müller | 2016-09-01 |
| Movie | All of My Heart | Vern | 2015-02-14 |
| Movie | I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!! | Himself | 2015-04-25 |
| Movie | The Nutcracker Sweet | Owl | 2015-06-03 |
| Movie | Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration | Himself / Lou Grant (archive footage) | 2015-10-13 |
| Movie | Audrey | Walt | 2014-02-14 |
| Movie | I Know That Voice | Himself | 2014-01-07 |
| Movie | Waiting in the Wings: The Musical | Jefferson | 2014-04-01 |
| Movie | Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas | Santa (voice) | 2014-12-16 |
| Movie | The Games Maker | Nicholas Drago | 2014-07-03 |
| Movie | Frozen in Time | Grandpa (voice) | 2014-11-12 |
| Movie | Second Chances | Chief Buddy | 2013-05-20 |
| Movie | Christmas on the Bayou | Papa Noel | 2013-12-14 |
| Movie | Home Alone: The Holiday Heist | Mr. Carson | 2012-12-03 |
| Movie | Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl | Himself | 2012-01-16 |
| Movie | Foodfight! | Mr. Leonard (voice) | 2012-06-15 |
| Movie | Should've Been Romeo | Charlie | 2012-04-28 |
| Movie | Liberator | President Whitlock | 2012-09-15 |
| Movie | Casting By | Himself | 2012-11-01 |
| Movie | The Desert of Forbidden Art | Voice | 2011-03-18 |
| Series | Working Class | Hank Greziak | 2011-01-28 |
| Movie | Hopelessly in June | Rabbi | 2011-06-06 |
| Movie | All Star Superman | Perry White (voice) | 2011-01-01 |
| Movie | Too Big to Fail | Warren Buffett | 2011-11-25 |
| Movie | Not Another B Movie | Angry Investor | 2011-07-12 |
| Movie | Let Go | Artie | 2011-10-25 |
| Series | Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays | Dr. Wasserman | 2011-09-14 |
| Movie | Superman/Batman: Apocalypse | Granny Goodness (voice) | 2010-09-28 |
| Series | The Line | 2009-03-16 | |
| Movie | Dug's Special Mission | Carl Fredricksen (voice) (uncredited) | 2009-11-10 |
| Movie | Up | Carl Fredricksen (voice) | 2009-05-28 |
| Movie | Channels | Ed Packard | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | Gigantic | Kirby Weathersby | 2008-09-09 |
| Movie | Generation Gap | Bart Cahill | 2008-11-01 |
| Movie | Christmas Cottage | Sidney | 2008-10-15 |
| Movie | Christmas Is Here Again | Krad (voice) | 2007-10-20 |
| Movie | Hard Four | Golden Hands Segal | 2007-11-01 |
| Movie | The Christmas Card | Luke Spelman | 2006-12-02 |
| Movie | Sir! No Sir! | Col. Heinl | 2005-05-19 |
| Movie | Sleeping Dogs Lie | Sheriff Delaney | 2005-02-28 |
| Movie | Out of the Woods | Jack Green | 2005-04-02 |
| Movie | Spider-Man: The Venom Saga | J. Jonah Jameson | 2005-06-07 |
| Movie | Crab Orchard | 2005-09-23 | |
| Movie | Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class | Narrator | 2005-08-31 |
| Movie | Missing Brendan | George Calden | 2004-10-26 |
| Series | Center of the Universe | Art Barnett | 2004-10-27 |
| Series | Spider-Man: The New Animated Series | Officer Barr | 2003-07-11 |
| Movie | Daredevil vs. Spider-Man | J. Jonah Jameson (voice) | 2003-02-11 |
| Movie | The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series | Self | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay | Augie Sinclair | 2003-06-15 |
| Movie | Elf | Santa | 2003-10-09 |
| Movie | Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure | Uncle Nick | 2003-12-20 |
| Movie | Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure | Narrator | 2003-10-27 |
| Movie | Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown | J. Jonah Jameson | 2002-04-30 |
| Movie | Pope John XXIII | Angelo Roncalli | 2002-01-01 |
| Movie | The Man Who Saved Christmas | Charles Gilbert | 2002-12-15 |
| Movie | Island Prey | Jay Roth | 2001-01-01 |
| Movie | The Animal | Chief Wilson | 2001-06-01 |
| Movie | Gahan Wilson's The Kid | Dead Cat | 2001-10-30 |
| Movie | Common Ground | Ira | 2000-01-29 |
| Movie | Perfect Game | Billy Hicks | 2000-04-18 |
| Movie | Bring Him Home | Geza | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story | 2000-05-31 | |
| Movie | Above Suspicion | Thomas O'Claire | 2000-06-07 |
| Movie | O' Christmas Tree | Nutcracker | 1999-01-01 |
| Movie | Our Friend, Martin | Mr. Harris (voice) (as Ed Asner) | 1999-01-12 |
| Movie | Olive, The Other Reindeer | Santa Claus (voice) | 1999-12-17 |
| Movie | The Bachelor | Sid Gluckman | 1999-11-05 |
| Movie | Hard Rain | Uncle Charlie | 1998-01-16 |
| Series | The Closer | 1998-02-23 | |
| Movie | The Fumbleheads | Charlie Atwater | 1997-01-01 |
| Movie | Payback | Jack Patkanis | 1997-02-10 |
| Movie | Academy Boyz | 1997-12-02 | |
| Movie | The Long Way Home | George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice) | 1997-09-19 |
| Movie | A Christmas Carol | Marley (voice) | 1997-12-20 |
| Movie | Hanged on a Twisted Cross | Narrator | 1996-01-01 |
| Movie | Gone in the Night | Det. John Waters | 1996-02-24 |
| Movie | The Story of Santa Claus | Santa Claus (voice) | 1996-12-07 |
| Movie | Goldilocks and the Three Bears | Bruno | 1995-01-01 |
| Series | Freakazoid! | Sgt. Mike Cosgrove (voice) | 1995-09-09 |
| Movie | Down on the Waterfront | 1994-04-26 | |
| Series | Thunder Alley | Gil Jones | 1994-03-09 |
| Series | Gargoyles | Hudson (voice) | 1994-10-24 |
| Series | Spider-Man | J. Jonah Jameson (voice) | 1994-11-19 |
| Movie | Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy | Self | 1993-01-20 |
| Movie | Gypsy | Charles Thompson | 1993-12-12 |
| Series | Cruel Doubt | Bill Osteen | 1992-05-17 |
| Series | Fish Police | 1992-02-28 | |
| Movie | Earth and the American Dream | Reader (voice) | 1992-10-01 |
| Movie | Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show | Himself | 1991-02-18 |
| Movie | Switched at Birth | Ted Marx | 1991-04-28 |
| Movie | JFK | Guy Bannister | 1991-12-20 |
| Movie | Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus | Edward P. Mitchell | 1991-12-08 |
| Movie | Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less | Harvey Metcalfe | 1990-03-25 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990-05-21 |
| Movie | The Cops Are Robbers | 1990-12-09 | |
| Series | The Trials of Rosie O'Neill | Walter Kovacs | 1990-09-17 |
| Movie | Happily Ever After | Scowl the Owl (voice) | 1989-06-30 |
| Movie | A Friendship in Vienna | Opah Oskar Reikman | 1988-08-27 |
| Movie | Moon Over Parador | Self | 1988-09-09 |
| Series | The Bronx Zoo | 1987-03-19 | |
| Movie | Cracked Up | Rev. Vincent Owens | 1987-05-26 |
| Movie | Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night | Scalawag (voice) | 1987-08-06 |
| Series | The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood | Himself - Presenter | 1987-07-03 |
| Movie | Vital Signs | Matthew St James | 1986-02-11 |
| Movie | Joshua and the Battle of Jericho | Joshua | 1986-04-25 |
| Movie | The Christmas Star | Horace McNickle | 1986-12-14 |
| Movie | Kate's Secret | Dr. Resnick | 1986-11-17 |
| Series | Off the Rack | Sam Waltman | 1985-03-15 |
| Series | Tender Is the Night | Devereux Warren | 1985-09-23 |
| Series | Tall Tales & Legends | Lucky Jake | 1985-09-25 |
| Movie | Anatomy of an Illness | Norman Cousins | 1984-05-15 |
| Movie | Donald Duck's 50th Birthday | Himself | 1984-11-13 |
| Movie | Daniel | Jacob Ascher | 1983-08-26 |
| Movie | O'Hara's Wife | Bob O'Hara | 1982-01-01 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 |
| Movie | Fort Apache, the Bronx | Connolly | 1981-02-06 |
| Movie | The Marva Collins Story | Narrator (voice) | 1981-12-01 |
| Movie | The Family Man | Eddie Madden | 1979-12-19 |
| Series | Lou Grant | Lou Grant | 1977-09-20 |
| Movie | The Gathering | Adam | 1977-12-04 |
| Series | Rich Man, Poor Man | Axel Jordache | 1976-02-01 |
| Movie | Gus | Hank Cooper | 1976-07-07 |
| Movie | Mitzi & 100 Guys | Self | 1975-03-24 |
| Movie | Death Scream | Peter Singleton | 1975-09-26 |
| Movie | Hey, I'm Alive | Ralph Flores | 1975-11-07 |
| Movie | The Girl Most Likely To... | Det. Ralph Varone | 1973-11-06 |
| Movie | Haunts of the Very Rich | Al Hunsicker | 1972-09-20 |
| Movie | They Call It Murder | Chief Otto Larkin | 1971-12-17 |
| Movie | Skin Game | Plunkett | 1971-09-30 |
| Movie | The Last Child | Barstow | 1971-10-05 |
| Movie | The Todd Killings | Fred Reardon | 1971-10-20 |
| Movie | House on Greenapple Road | Sheriff Muntz | 1970-01-11 |
| Movie | Halls of Anger | Ernie McKay | 1970-04-29 |
| Movie | The Old Man Who Cried Wolf | Dr. Morheim | 1970-10-13 |
| Movie | They Call Me Mister Tibbs! | Woody Garfield | 1970-07-10 |
| Series | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Lou Grant | 1970-09-19 |
| Movie | Change of Habit | Lt. Moretti | 1969-11-10 |
| Movie | Daughter of the Mind | Saul Wiener | 1969-12-09 |
| Movie | Gunn | Lt. Jacoby | 1967-06-28 |
| Movie | The Venetian Affair | Frank Rosenfeld | 1967-01-18 |
| Movie | The Doomsday Flight | Mr. Feldman | 1966-12-13 |
| Movie | El Dorado | Bart Jason | 1966-12-17 |
| Movie | The Satan Bug | Henchman Veretti | 1965-03-26 |
| Movie | The Slender Thread | Det. Judd Ridley | 1965-12-15 |
| Series | Slattery's People | 1964-09-21 | |
| Movie | The New Girl | 1960-01-01 | |
| Movie | The Night America Trembled | 1957-09-09 |