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Ed Asner
0 FOLLOWERS • 126 CREDITS • NOV 15, 1929 - AUG 29, 2021 • 91
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.
Known For
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Bones
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Gunsmoke
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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The Kelly Clarkson Show
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The F.B.I.
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ER
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/QdCyzFDoa6sUs6zqjvIdTHZ8Go.jpg)
The Middle
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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The Good Wife
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MacGyver
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Studio One
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Celebrity Family Feud
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The Virginian
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CSI: NY
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E! True Hollywood Story
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Modern Family
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/xnFFz3etm1vftF0ns8RMHA8XdqT.jpg)
American Dad!
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ko0h8oz2bC1NWnhcuMnvNVDpfJj.jpg)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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Tony Awards
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Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
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Route 66
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Hawaii Five-O
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The Defenders
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Superman: The Animated Series
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/mvSXebWlltJxJUNNkoLb0tzygi2.jpg)
Hot in Cleveland
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/1zJFzPsnC3ih1sdY25XbHactXiB.jpg)
Dr. Kildare
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/6eBW8YKARymkEKfBexa8hB9oFfY.jpg)
Run for Your Life
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/gJpLOIYGYn0TyXeqnEhugd8RNd3.jpg)
The Fugitive
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/1VXTfckVsiNRqhWs9fdozyljuGy.jpg)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/mS5SLxMYcKfUxA0utBSR5MOAWWr.jpg)
Regular Show
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/70JM7KslaQEuR82eAbiykGgtjDH.jpg)
Mr. Novak
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4UARHgxTm7xwhcEHiVDwF0Gv4j0.jpg)
Roseanne
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/yH8VQmB3cv7hipzwjtxy48PLvl4.jpg)
Highway to Heaven
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/5BD0kiTGnDxONqdrsswTewnk6WH.jpg)
The X-Files
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/7OKZSUIWhjFP0F2s478zTrAYwDB.jpg)
The Practice
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/sHGuKFjIBisPk8cvtCZTDVktYfs.jpg)
Saturday Night Live
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/cJgRJdI1UsdpXEpkVtlmT0quTzm.jpg)
Arliss
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/gF52PA0wga7Cl5VWcjZ3wVVYTg.jpg)
Cain's Hundred
![](https://images.rivr.app/posters/1000/5437.jpg)
Profiles in Courage
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/93BqkPyaI0nt7w4YSEbkSauKfUz.jpg)
Outlaws
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/7nVSlqyqtlXuTiEYjku7fzWYav5.jpg)
Rhoda
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/3MnkwPdqQ4if7HL4rYTy6eUyq8q.jpg)
King of the Hill
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nVN7Dt0Xr78gnJepRsRLaLYklbY.jpg)
Doom Patrol
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/m7tG5E1EbywuwTsl6hq990So0Bx.jpg)
Cobra Kai
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/mTMAxrRaDp0TFpdFVinD3grrqr9.jpg)
Teen Titans Go!
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Touched by an Angel
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4qUf7B8eBZKjwjhfgU63J9OvQsT.jpg)
The Flip Wilson Show
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/y0HUz4eUNUe3TeEd8fQWYazPaC7.jpg)
Family Guy
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4eki1eer552hvm3w73ENrZwmTgq.jpg)
Grace and Frankie
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The Boondocks
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/wR5dGJxYPlPoElcXCxsxchRO8b9.jpg)
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/Au0DGdcrUIsb4GB6cRBbdiWrfPT.jpg)
The Wild Wild West
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/9n9Sr54cykU2oIiKYUt3jilJ27W.jpg)
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/7a6oArBmCIkrYYBsM36SPDJvlFJ.jpg)
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/lBomQFW1vlm1yUYMNSbFZ45R4Ox.jpg)
Batman: The Animated Series
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/kIi3T7X0kmiV9vGDme146P2d979.jpg)
Mom
![](https://images.rivr.app/posters/1000/25613.jpg)
CBS Playhouse
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/s2e7hTrdmNUaJDf0yDP5b4AHvrD.jpg)
The Crazy Ones
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The Emmy Awards
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The Angry Beavers
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The Holiday Movies That Made Us
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Ironside
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/qxjZg4q1C9BrnwOY7WzWsuwsfjC.jpg)
Medical Center
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ckmEgQdbSAw0jiJFJT1a1W1LEFy.jpg)
Central Park
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/8PY0OZ1xUbguPipb0a1uL6mg5Ka.jpg)
Justice League Unlimited
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Dead to Me
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/sIdCKlmM2nU4akIvFQaAIiU8YES.jpg)
Hawaii Five-0
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/cJZatTCCcaHkrSJHOVF9xLOFmni.jpg)
The Premise
![](https://images.rivr.app/posters/1000/5533.jpg)
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
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Hearts Afire
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The Magic School Bus
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Andy Barker, P.I.
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The Lieutenant
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/mZqWmSq1M61Jlre3furVDSXvdrN.jpg)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vHqeLzYl3dEAutojCO26g0LIkom.jpg)
The Simpsons
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/fn2wMnrPWIjDMnxIf0H89ZtDehK.jpg)
Young Justice
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Mad About You
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/tHCn6kRC5oY5lIeI3inRHzSvpCH.jpg)
The Eleventh Hour
![](https://images.rivr.app/posters/1000/25455.jpg)
Maggie Winters
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/dCNxOhXT7c4lqYuRpdM3m8s9XDp.jpg)
The Spectacular Spider-Man
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/v3UfqXCAxAcI7oUO4zwtk1T9G3n.jpg)
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/lyCKQDRCtv2EOrzQi69K5h4Wuod.jpg)
Ballmastrz: 9009
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/5zcLVCa1FSTAmYB4C7JHhpotp0q.jpg)
Earth and the American Dream
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/1EpwMUmY6BhF1r082c3SYzR1rFP.jpg)
The Movies That Made Us
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/cFGFFuHmpq9R0QqqW5NYJ3DFMqJ.jpg)
Tall Tales & Legends
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/r0VWVTYlqdRCK5ZoOdNnHdqM2gt.jpg)
JFK
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/igEajYkalSvxkchKzc0h1IDGb2.jpg)
More Tales of the City
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Switched at Birth
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/6JPrRC0JPM06y17pUXD6w1xMvKi.jpg)
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/kLy5fcQdpPuKhTVk6aqNcft1ICf.jpg)
Too Big to Fail
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/poJxkMtTA3E95lJ6RnBgNxF0Vmx.jpg)
El Dorado
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Common Ground
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The Bronx Zoo
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The Trials of Rosie O'Neill
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Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown
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Center of the Universe
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Spider-Man
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
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Snowden's Christmas
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Hard Rain
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/bVJ9p6nTX2nvzAviASuvtMSQ6Jp.jpg)
The Slender Thread
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Heads
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Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
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The Animal
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Daniel
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/oOleziEempUPu96jkGs0Pj6tKxj.jpg)
Elf
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/qvK30UQ5cPxGH7ZBVpUhO6DPIM5.jpg)
Dug's Special Mission
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/rwg1rBKcn3WUDOJ8DTZwUatuUb5.jpg)
The Sissy Duckling
![](https://images.rivr.app/posters/1000/25833.jpg)
The Closer
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/6phRyvtKjFn7dwbJZ9vLkb14Fce.jpg)
Gunn
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nBmvDbG5xauUHssAr7PWf90nbbW.jpg)
Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/dW7N0oEfYQBMwJE6MyFsAZWUtkl.jpg)
Fish Police
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SEVEN
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/aCgeGyHA1ZqQ7E3jzfDhTq5859K.jpg)
The Good Doctor
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vnapN6GRZEawe77Ih4ixQFyy2Lf.jpg)
A Friendship in Vienna
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nFsgsmK7isjtdEVTL35mJEQZHuO.jpg)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/e5kT33XH2gX7xBFIK1uUJAvU5dj.jpg)
Dug Days
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A Case of Libel
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The Name of the Game
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The Christmas Star
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Lou Grant
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Carl's Date
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