Ed 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:
- 148
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Kid Galahad 1962-11-29
- 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 | Mike Wilson | 2024-02-16 |
| Movie | A Fargo Christmas Story | Popcorn Bud | 2023-12-02 |
| Movie | Senior Entourage | Ed | 2021-05-03 |
| Movie | The Garden Left Behind | Dr. Cleary | 2020-08-28 |
| Movie | Rain Beau's End | Gunny | 2020-11-17 |
| Series | Donald Duck's 50th Birthday | Himself | 2018 |
| Movie | Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting | Jefferson | 2018-06-09 |
| Movie | Joe's War | Harry | 2017-03-17 |
| Movie | Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man | Adult Walter (voice) | 2017-01-28 |
| Movie | CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels! | Arthur (voice) | 2017-09-07 |
| Movie | Yamasong: March of the Hollows | Elder Pyreez | 2017-09-10 |
| Movie | And the Winner Isn't | Self | 2017-12-08 |
| Movie | Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas! | Santa | 2017-11-21 |
| Movie | All of My Heart: Inn Love | Vern | 2017-10-07 |
| 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 | A Merry Murdoch Christmas | Kris Kringle | 2015-12-21 |
| Movie | Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts | Self | 2015-11-06 |
| Movie | Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration | Self / Lou Grant (archive footage) | 2015-10-13 |
| Movie | I Know That Voice | Self | 2014-01-07 |
| Movie | Audrey | Walt | 2014-02-14 |
| Movie | Frozen in Time | Grandpa (voice) | 2014-11-12 |
| Movie | The Games Maker | Nicholas Drago | 2014-07-03 |
| Movie | Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas | Santa (voice) | 2014-12-16 |
| Movie | Second Chances | Chief Buddy | 2013-05-20 |
| Movie | Axel: The Biggest Little Hero | Bonta / Narrator | 2013-08-02 |
| Movie | Christmas on the Bayou | Papa Noel | 2013-12-14 |
| Movie | Should've Been Romeo | Charlie | 2012-04-28 |
| Movie | Elephant Sighs | Leo | 2012-06-12 |
| Movie | Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl | Self | 2012-01-16 |
| Movie | Foodfight! | Mr. Leonard (voice) | 2012-06-15 |
| Movie | Home Alone: The Holiday Heist | Mr. Carson | 2012-12-03 |
| Movie | Casting By | Self | 2012-11-01 |
| Movie | Liberator | President Whitlock | 2012-09-15 |
| Movie | The Desert of Forbidden Art | Voice | 2011-03-18 |
| Series | Working Class | Hank Greziak | 2011-01-28 |
| Movie | Not Another B Movie | Angry Investor | 2011-07-12 |
| Movie | Hopelessly in June | Rabbi | 2011-06-06 |
| Movie | Let Go | Artie | 2011-10-25 |
| Movie | Identical | Yaakov Washington | 2011-12-01 |
| Movie | Too Big to Fail | Warren Buffett | 2011-11-25 |
| Movie | Superman/Batman: Apocalypse | Granny Goodness (voice) | 2010-09-28 |
| Series | The Line | 2009-03-16 | |
| Movie | Up | Carl Fredricksen (voice) | 2009-05-28 |
| Movie | Gigantic | Kirby Weathersby | 2008-09-09 |
| Movie | Christmas Cottage | Sidney | 2008-10-15 |
| Movie | Generation Gap | Bart Cahill | 2008-11-01 |
| 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 | Sleeping Dogs Lie | Sheriff Delaney | 2005-02-28 |
| Movie | Out of the Woods | Jack Green | 2005-04-02 |
| Movie | Sir! No Sir! | Col. Heinl | 2005-05-19 |
| Movie | The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror | Himself | 2005-07-15 |
| Movie | Crab Orchard | 2005-09-23 | |
| Series | Center of the Universe | Art Barnett | 2004-10-27 |
| Movie | Daredevil vs. Spider-Man | J. Jonah Jameson (voice) | 2003-02-11 |
| Series | Spider-Man: The New Animated Series | Officer Barr | 2003-07-11 |
| Movie | Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure | Narrator (voice) | 2003-10-27 |
| Movie | Elf | Santa | 2003-10-09 |
| Movie | Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure | Uncle Nick | 2003-12-20 |
| Movie | Pope John XXIII | Angelo Roncalli | 2002-01-01 |
| Movie | Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown | J. Jonah Jameson | 2002-04-30 |
| 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 | Common Ground | Ira | 2000-01-29 |
| Movie | Bring Him Home | Geza | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Above Suspicion | Thomas O'Claire | 2000-06-07 |
| Movie | Our Friend, Martin | Mr. Harris (voice) (as Ed Asner) | 1999-01-12 |
| Movie | O' Christmas Tree | Nutcracker (voice) | 1999-01-01 |
| Movie | The Sissy Duckling | Father Duck (voice) | 1999-09-14 |
| Movie | Love and Action in Chicago | Taylor | 1999-09-15 |
| Movie | Olive, The Other Reindeer | Santa Claus (voice) | 1999-12-17 |
| Movie | The Bachelor | Gluckman | 1999-11-05 |
| Movie | Hard Rain | Uncle Charlie | 1998-01-16 |
| Movie | Payback | Jack Patkanis | 1997-02-10 |
| Movie | The Fumbleheads | Charlie Atwater | 1997-01-01 |
| Movie | A Christmas Carol | Marley (voice) | 1997-12-20 |
| Movie | Dog's Best Friend | Jeep, the Sheep Dog (voice) | 1997-03-23 |
| Movie | The Long Way Home | George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice) | 1997-09-19 |
| Movie | Academy Boyz | 1997-12-02 | |
| Movie | Gone in the Night | Det. John Waters | 1996-02-24 |
| Movie | Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken | Hudson (voice) | 1996-05-02 |
| Movie | Goldilocks and the Three Bears | Bruno | 1995-01-01 |
| Series | Freakazoid! | 1995-09-09 | |
| Movie | Down on the Waterfront | 1994-04-26 | |
| Movie | Heads | Ab Abbot | 1994-01-29 |
| 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 | Fish Police | 1992-02-28 | |
| Movie | Switched at Birth | Ted Marx | 1991-04-28 |
| Movie | Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus | Edward P. Mitchell | 1991-12-08 |
| Movie | JFK | Guy Bannister | 1991-12-20 |
| Movie | Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less | Harvey Metcalfe | 1990-03-25 |
| Movie | The Cops Are Robbers | 1990-12-09 | |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990-05-21 |
| Movie | Happily Ever After | Scowl the Owl (voice) | 1989-06-30 |
| Movie | Moon Over Parador | Self | 1988-09-09 |
| Movie | A Friendship in Vienna | Opah Oskar Reikman | 1988-08-27 |
| Movie | Cracked Up | Rev. Vincent Owens | 1987-05-26 |
| Movie | Joshua and the Battle of Jericho | Joshua (voice) | 1986-04-25 |
| Movie | Vital Signs | Matthew St James | 1986-02-11 |
| Movie | The Christmas Star | Horace McNickle | 1986-12-14 |
| Movie | Kate's Secret | Dr. Resnick | 1986-11-17 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars II | Self | 1985-03-10 |
| Movie | Tender is the Night | Devereux Warren | 1985-09-23 |
| Movie | Anatomy of an Illness | Norman Cousins | 1984-05-15 |
| 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 | A Different Approach | 1978-01-01 | |
| Series | Roots | 1977-01-23 | |
| Movie | The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish | Huey P. Long | 1977-03-21 |
| Movie | The Gathering | Adam | 1977-12-04 |
| Series | Lou Grant | Lou Grant | 1977-09-20 |
| 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 Wrestler | Frank Bass | 1974-04-28 |
| Movie | The Girl Most Likely to... | Det. Ralph Varone | 1973-11-06 |
| Movie | Haunts of the Very Rich | Al Hunsicker | 1972-09-20 |
| 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 | They Call It Murder | Chief Otto Larkin | 1971-12-17 |
| Movie | Halls of Anger | Ernie McKay | 1970-04-29 |
| Movie | House on Greenapple Road | Sheriff Muntz | 1970-01-11 |
| Movie | The Old Man Who Cried Wolf | Dr. Morheim | 1970-10-13 |
| Series | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Lou Grant | 1970-09-19 |
| 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 | Feldman | 1966-12-13 |
| Movie | El Dorado | Bart Jason | 1966-12-17 |
| Movie | The Slender Thread | Det. Judd Ridley | 1965-12-15 |
| Movie | The Satan Bug | Henchman Veretti | 1965-03-26 |
| Series | Slattery's People | 1964-09-21 | |
| Movie | Kid Galahad | Assistant District Attorney Frank Gerson (uncredited) | 1962-11-29 |