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Ed Asner

Edward Asner, commonly known as Ed Asner, was an American film, television, stage, and voice actor with over 400 film and television credits to his name, is best remembered for portraying Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series Lou Grant, making him one of the few television actors to portray the same character in both a comedy and a drama.


Aliases
  • Eddie Asner
  • Edward Asner
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Up

2009
as Carl Fredricksen

Elf

2003
as Santa Claus

Dead to Me

2019
as Abe

Carl's Date

2023
as Carl

Batman: The Animated Series

1992
as Roland Daggett/Others

JFK

1991
as Guy Bannister

Gargoyles

1994
as Hudson

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse

2010
as Granny Goodness (voice)

Superman: The Animated Series

1996
as Granny Goodness

Dug Days

2021
as Carl

The Man Who Saved Christmas

2002
as Charles Gilbert

Slattery's People

1964
as Frank Radcliff

The Todd Killings

1971
as Fred Reardon

M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters

2020
as Dr. Howard Arden

O' Christmas Tree

1999
as Nutcracker

Anatomy of an Illness

1984
as Norman Cousins

Gunn

1967
as Lt. Jacoby

Sir! No Sir!

2005
as Col. Heinl

Night Of 100 Stars III

1990
as Edward Asner

O'Hara's Wife

1982
as Bob O'Hara

The Closer (1998)

1998
as Carl Dobson

A Case of Libel

1983
as Robert Sloane

All Star Superman

2011
as Perry White

El Dorado

1966
as Bart Jason

The Satan Bug

1965
as Henchman Veretti

The Christmas Card

2006
as Luke Spelman

The Fumbleheads

1997
as Charlie Atwater

Frozen in Time

2014
as Grandpa (voice)

A Friendship in Vienna

1988
as Opah Oskar Reikman

Channels

2008
as Ed Packard

Hard Rain

1998
as Uncle Charlie

Joe's War

2017
as Harry

Mary Jane: A Musical Potumentary

2016
as Corporate Manager

Night of 100 Stars

1982
as Edward Asner

Bring Him Home

2000
as Geza Horvath

Pope John XXIII

2002
as Angelo Roncalli

Payback

1997
as Jack Patkanis

Change of Habit

1969
as Lt. Moretti

Our Friend, Martin

1999
as Mr. Harris (voice) (as Ed Asner)

The Christmas Star

1986
as Horace McNickle

Down on the Waterfront

1993
as Bobby Gleason

Freakazoid!

1995
as Sgt. Mike Cosgrove

Island Prey

2005
as Jay Roth

I Know That Voice

2014
as Himself

Behind the Fear

2016
as Narrator

Death Scream

1975
as Peter Singleton

Working Class

2011
as Hank Greziak

Dug's Special Mission

2009
as Carl Fredricksen

Haunts of the Very Rich

1972
as Al Hunsicker

Missing Brendan

2003
as George Calden

Daniel

1983
as Jacob Ascher

Gone in the Night

1996
as Det. John Waters

Roots

1977
as Capt. Thomas Davies

Heads

1994
as Ab Abbot

Second Chances

2013
as Chief Buddy

Gigantic

2008
as Kirby Weathersby

Hearts Afire

1992
as George Lahti

Love Finds You in Valentine

2016
as Gabriel Morgan

The Animal

2001
as Chief Wilson

Silent Motive

1991
as Sam Van Drake

Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration

2015
as Himself / Lou Grant

Hey, I'm Alive

1975
as Ralph Flores

Perfect Game

2000
as Coach Billy Hicks

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

1970
as Woody Garfield

Halls of Anger

1970
as Ernie McKay

Liberator

2012
as President Whitlock

In Vino

2017
as Charles

Generation Gap

2008
as Bart Cahill

Not Another B Movie

2015
as Angry Investor

Lou Grant

1977
as Lou Grant

Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man

2016
as Adult Walter (voice)

Titanic: Sinking the Myths

2017
as Wilhelm Müller

The Gettysburg Address

2015
as Edward Everett

Snowden's Christmas

1999
as Big Daddy

Love Meet Hope

2016
as Mr. James

Daughter of the Mind

1969
as Saul Wiener

The Cops Are Robbers

1990
as Jake Quinn

Hard Four

2007
as Golden Hands Segal

Gus

1976
as Hank Cooper

Out of the Woods

2005
as Jack Green

The Story of Santa Claus

1996
as Nicholas "Santa" Claus

Academy Boyz

1997
as Mr. Bright

The Girl Most Likely to...

1973
as Det. Ralph Varone

Sleeping Dogs Lie

2005
as Sheriff Delaney

Angels on Tap

2018
as Swifty

Skin Game

1971
as Plunkett (runaway slave hunter)

Gypsy

1993
as Pop

The Slender Thread

1965
as Det. Judd Ridley

Super Sex

2016
as George

CarGo

2017
as Arthur (voice)

The Marva Collins Story

1981
as Narrator (voice)

Happily Ever After

1989
as Scowl the Owl (voice)

The Venetian Affair

1966
as Frank Rosenfeld

The Year in Memoriam

2017
as Self (as Ed Asner)

Cracked Up

1987
as Rev. Vincent Owens

Foodfight!

2012
as Mr. Leonard

Too Big to Fail

2011
as Warren Buffett

Spider-Man: The Venom Saga

2005
as J. Jonah Jameson

The Bachelor

1999
as Sid Gluckman

The Last Child

1971
as Barstow

Center of the Universe

2004
as Art Barnett

Let Go

2011
as Artie Satz

The Games Maker

2014
as Nicholas Drago

The Gliksmans

2017
as Moshe

Olive, the Other Reindeer

1999
as Santa Claus (voice)

Eva: A-7063

2018
as Edward Asner

The Family Man

1979
as Eddie Madden

Above Suspicion

2000
as Thomas O'Claire

Kate's Secret

1986
as Dr. Resnick

Producer

Movie A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle 2000

Guest Star

Episode Battle of the Network Stars
Battle of the Network Stars VII
1979
Episode Modern Family
Dead on a Rival
2020
Episode Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Kalele
2012
Episode The Boondocks
The Garden Party
2005
Episode The Premise
The Ballad of Jesse Wheeler
2021
Episode Tall Tales and Legends
Darlin' Clementine
1986
Episode Chelsea Lately
Ed Asner
2011
Episode Today
May 16, 2011
2011
Episode The X-Files
How The Ghosts Stole Christmas
1998
Episode Decoy
An Eye For An Eye
1958
Episode Route 66
The Man on the Monkey Board
1960
Episode The Boondocks
The Block is Hot
2006
Episode Route 66
The Mud Nest
1961
Episode Target: The Corruptors
The Golden Carpet
1961
Episode The Untouchables
The Death Tree
1962
Episode Cain's Hundred
Blues for a Junkman
1962
Episode Route 66
Shoulder the Sky, My Lad
1962
Episode The Untouchables
The Night They Shot Santa Claus
1962
Episode Route 66
Welcome to the Wedding
1962
Episode The Untouchables
Elegy
1962
Episode Alcoa Premiere
The Contenders
1962
Episode The Untouchables
Search for a Dead Man
1963
Episode The Crazy Ones
The Stan Wood Account
2013
Episode The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
To Catch a Butterfly
1963
Episode The Virginian
Echo of Another Day
1963
Episode Stoney Burke
Tigress by the Tail
1963
Episode Mr. Novak
First Year, First Day
1963
Episode The Lieutenant
A Troubled Image
1963
Episode Gunsmoke
Hung High
1964
Episode Mr. Novak
An Elephant is Like a Tree
1965
Episode Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The Exile
1965
Episode The Fugitive
Masquerade
1965
Episode The Fugitive
Three Cheers for Little Boy Blue
1965
Episode A Man Called Shenandoah
The Verdict
1965
Episode The F.B.I.
The Tormentors
1966
Episode The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Bob Newhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Ed Asner
1998
Episode Gunsmoke
The Whispering Tree
1966
Episode The Felony Squad
The Killer Instinct
1966
Episode Murdoch Mysteries
A Merry Murdoch Christmas
2015
Episode The Fugitive
Run the Man Down
1967
Episode The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
The Double-O-Nothing Affair
1967
Episode The Invaders
Wall of Crystal
1967
Episode Judd for the Defense
The Other Face of the Law
1967
Episode Ironside
The Fourteenth Runner
1967
Episode Cobra Kai
Ace Degenerate
2018
Episode The Wild Wild West
The Night of the Amnesiac
1968
Episode The Invaders
The Miracle
1968
Episode Men at Work
Gigo-Milo
2014
Episode The White Shadow
Coolidge Goes Hollywood
1980
Episode The F.B.I.
The Dynasty
1968
Episode Mission: Impossible
The Mind of Stefan Miklos
1969
Episode The F.B.I.
The Attorney
1969
Episode Ironside
Not With a Whimper, But a Bang
1969
Episode Celebrity Bowling
Gail Fisher and Edward Asner vs. Peggy Lennon and John Davidson
1972
Episode Celebrity Bowling
Sammy Shore and Johnny Tillotson vs. Richard Long and Edward Asner
1972
Episode Rhoda
Rhoda's Wedding
1974
Episode Hawaii Five-O
Wooden Model Of A Rat
1975
Episode Rhoda
Rhoda's Wedding (2)
1974
Episode The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible
Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
1986
Episode Ballmastrz: 9009
Onward, True Blue Friends Win Eternal; Paladin of the Heavens, Start Today!
2020
Episode Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic Boom
1993
Episode Duckman
The Germ Turns
1995
Episode Roseanne
Call Waiting
1996
Episode Ben Casey
The Echo of a Silent Cheer (2)
1963
Episode The Practice
The Blessing
1997
Episode Life with Louie
The Kiss is the Thing
1997
Episode Jeopardy!
1993 Celebrity Jeopardy! Game 2
1993
Episode Jumanji
The Trial
1997
Episode Soul Man
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
1998
Episode Maggie Winters
Angstgiving Day
1998
Episode The Simpsons
Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?
1999
Episode Touched by an Angel
Here I Am
2000
Episode Arli$$
Last Call
2000
Episode Johnny Bravo
Virtual Johnny
2000
Episode Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
The Return of XL
2000
Episode The Huntress
Generations
2001
Episode The Outer Limits
It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
1963
Episode Dharma & Greg
How This Happened
2001
Episode The Wild Thornberrys
The Anniversary
2001
Episode Family Guy
One if by Clam, Two if by Sea
2001
Episode Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Acupuncturist
2001
Episode King of the Hill
Unfortunate Son
2002
Episode The Simpsons
Gump Roast
2002
Episode The Practice
Pre-Trial Blues (2)
2004
Episode Insight
This Side of Eden
1970
Episode The Practice
Mr. Shore Goes to Town (3)
2004
Episode The $10,000 Pyramid
THE $10,000 PYRAMID: SANDY DUNCAN & EDWARD ASNER (2nd Weekday at CBS TELEVISION CITY.)
1973
Episode The $10,000 Pyramid
THE $10,000 PYRAMID: SANDY DUNCAN & EDWARD ASNER.
1973
Episode Justice League
Hawk and Dove
2004
Episode Justice League
The Ties That Bind
2005
Episode Tony Awards
The 32nd Annual Tony Awards
1978
Episode The $10,000 Pyramid
THE $10,000 PYRAMID: SANDY DUNCAN & EDWARD ASNER.
1973
Episode Cobra Kai
Molting
2018
Episode The Talk
Ed Asner
2020
Episode The $10,000 Pyramid
THE $10,000 PYRAMID: SANDY DUNCAN & EDWARD ASNER.
1973
Episode The $10,000 Pyramid
THE $10,000 PYRAMID: SANDY DUNCAN & EDWARD ASNER.
1973
Episode The $10,000 Pyramid
THE $10,000 PYRAMID: JO ANNE WORLEY & EDWARD ASNER.
1973
Episode The $10,000 Pyramid
THE $10,000 PYRAMID: JO ANNE WORLEY & EDWARD ASNER.
1973
Episode Animaniacs
The Warners 65th Anniversary Special
1994
Episode The $10,000 Pyramid
THE $10,000 PYRAMID: JO ANNE WORLEY & EDWARD ASNER.
1973
Episode The $10,000 Pyramid
THE $10,000 PYRAMID: JO ANNE WORLEY & EDWARD ASNER.
1973
Episode Naked City
New York to L.A.
1961
Episode The $10,000 Pyramid
THE $10,000 PYRAMID: JO ANNE WORLEY & EDWARD ASNER.
1973
Episode Naked City
A Hole in the City
1961
Episode Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Monster's Legacy
2013
Episode Chelsea Lately
Ed Asner
2010
Episode Cobra Kai
Now You’re Gonna Pay
2021
Episode Doom Patrol
Flex Patrol
2019
Episode MacGyver (2016)
Skyscraper - Power
2018
Episode Ask the StoryBots
A StoryBots Christmas
2017
Episode Bones
The New Tricks in the Old Dogs
2017
Episode Criminal Minds
A Place at the Table
2015
Episode Mom
Kimchi and a Monkey Playing Harmonica
2014
Episode Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Kanalua
2012
Episode The Iron Horse
The Prisoner
1967
Episode Hot in Cleveland
Rubber Ball
2012
Episode The Middle
The Paper Route
2012
Episode Young Justice
Denial
2011
Episode American Dad!
There Will Be Bad Blood
2010
Episode The Cleveland Show
How Cleveland Got His Groove Back
2010
Episode Burke's Law
Nightmare in the Sun
1965
Episode The Boondocks
It's Goin Down
2010
Episode The Boondocks
The Red Ball
2010
Episode The Cleveland Show
The Curious Case of Jr. Working at the Stool
2010
Episode CSI: NY
Yahrzeit
2009
Episode The Spectacular Spider-Man
Intervention
2008
Episode The Colbert Report
Naomi Wolf
2007
Episode Andy Barker, P.I.
The Lady Varnishes
2007
Episode W.I.T.C.H.
Z is for Zenith
2006
Episode W.I.T.C.H.
U is for Undivided
2006
Episode W.I.T.C.H.
W is for Witch
2006
Episode Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
The Long Lead Story
2006
Episode The Boondocks
The Itis
2006
Episode The Dead Zone
Coming Home
2005
Episode Today
October 4, 2012
2012
Episode Route 66
The Opponent
1961
Episode Teen Titans Go!
Huggbees
2020
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents
What Frightened You, Fred?
1962