Ed Asner

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1929-11-15 (92 years old)

Deathday

2021-08-29

Place of Birth

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Ed Asner

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.

Acting

1975

1991

JFK

as Guy Bannister

2023

Carl's Date

as Carl (voice)

2021

Muppets Haunted Mansion

as Ghost of Claude

2016

Getting Ed Laid

as Ed Randall

1999

The Bachelor

as Gluckman

2003

Elf

as Santa

1971

Skin Game

as Plunkett

1976

Gus

as Hank Cooper

2001

The Animal

as Chief Wilson

1998

Hard Rain

as Uncle Charlie

1966

El Dorado

as Bart Jason

1981

2007

2021

Back Home Again

as Peter Lionsbridge (voice)

2023

Being Mary Tyler Moore

as Self (voice)

1965

The Satan Bug

as Henchman Veretti

1999

Olive, The Other Reindeer

as Santa Claus (voice)

1970

2008

1986

The Christmas Star

as Horace McNickle

2009

Up

as Carl Fredricksen (voice)

1969

Daughter of the Mind

as Saul Wiener

2008

Gigantic

as Kirby Weathersby

2002

The Man Who Saved Christmas

as Charles Gilbert

2010

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse

as Granny Goodness (voice)

2011

Too Big to Fail

as Warren Buffett

2005

Sir! No Sir!

as Col. Heinl

2006

The Christmas Card

as Luke Spelman

1997

A Christmas Carol

as Marley (voice)

1993

Gypsy

as Charles Thompson

1969

Change of Habit

as Lt. Moretti

2005

Sleeping Dogs Lie

as Sheriff Delaney

1999

O' Christmas Tree

as Nutcracker (voice)

2005

Out of the Woods

as Jack Green

1965

The Slender Thread

as Det. Judd Ridley

1970

Halls of Anger

as Ernie McKay

1983

Daniel

as Jacob Ascher

2011

All Star Superman

as Perry White (voice)

1973

The Girl Most Likely To...

as Det. Ralph Varone

2007

Hard Four

as Golden Hands Segal

1967

Gunn

as Lt. Jacoby

1967

The Venetian Affair

as Frank Rosenfeld

2020

Tiger Within

as Samuel

2002

Pope John XXIII

as Angelo Roncalli

2011

1997

The Long Way Home

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

1972

2012

1977

2011

Let Go

as Artie

1991

1971

The Todd Killings

as Fred Reardon

1999

Our Friend, Martin

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

1988

A Friendship in Vienna

as Opah Oskar Reikman

2001

Island Prey

as Jay Roth

1971

The Last Child

as Barstow

2023

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Ed Asner's Oral History

as Self - Interviewee

2014

The Games Maker

as Nicholas Drago

1986

Darlin' Clementine

as Lucky Jake

1984

Anatomy of an Illness

as Norman Cousins

2013

Axel: The Biggest Little Hero

as Bonta / Narrator (voice)

1957

The Defender (Studio One)

as Juror (uncredited)

2013

Second Chances

as Chief Buddy

1966

1962

Kid Galahad

as Assistant District Attorney Frank Gerson (uncredited)

2014

Audrey

as Walt

1997

Payback

as Jack Patkanis

2008

Generation Gap

as Bart Cahill

1996

Gone in the Night

as Det. John Waters

1961

The Murder Men

as Dave Keller

1975

Twigs

as Phil

1975

The Impostor

as Barney West

1994

Heads

as Ab Abbot

1960

1999

2000

Becoming Dick

as Davis Aldrich

1989

Happily Ever After

as Scowl the Owl (voice)

1970

House on Greenapple Road

as Sheriff Muntz

1982

2014

2015

2022

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

as Grandpa Heffley (voice)

2012

Foodfight!

as Mr. Leonard (voice)

2012

1970

2012

1996

The Story of Santa Claus

as Santa Claus (voice)

2000

Above Suspicion

as Thomas O'Claire

1986

Vital Signs

as Matthew St James

2019

Faith, Hope & Love

as Harry Karetas

2013

2017

Yamasong: March of the Hollows

as Elder Pyreez (voice)

1997

Dog's Best Friend

as Jeep, the Sheep Dog (voice)

2000

Perfect Game

as Billy Hicks

1971

They Call It Murder

as Chief Otto Larkin

2009

Dug's Special Mission

as Carl Fredricksen (voice) (uncredited)

2015

The Nutcracker Sweet

as Owl (voice)

2000

2016

2016

Super Sex

as George

2003

Daredevil vs. Spider-Man

as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)

1981

The Marva Collins Story

as Narrator (voice)

2016

Titanic: Sinking the Myths

as Wilhelm Müller

2011

Identical

as Yaakov Washington

2015

Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration

as Self / Lou Grant (archive footage)

2013

American Road

as Walt Whitman

1975

Hey, I'm Alive

as Ralph Flores

1997

The Fumbleheads

as Charlie Atwater

2017

Joe's War

as Harry

2017

2000

2004

Missing Brendan

as George Calden

1986

Kate's Secret

as Dr. Resnick

2012

Liberator

as President Whitlock

2014

Frozen in Time

as Grandpa (voice)

2017

Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man

as Adult Walter (voice)

2005

Spider-Man: The Venom Saga

as J. Jonah Jameson

2018

1982

O'Hara's Wife

as Bob O'Hara

2017

2018

Olympia

as Himself

2016

Love Meet Hope

as Mr. James

1979

The Family Man

as Eddie Madden

2020

2004

Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock

as J Jonah Jameson

2011

Not Another B Movie

as Angry Investor

2008

Channels

as Ed Packard

2018

LA DA Story

as Self (archive footage)

2018

Angels on Tap

as Swifty

2025

The Gettysburg Address

as Edward Everett (voice)

1991

1983

A Case of Libel

as Robert Sloane

1987

Cracked Up

as Rev. Vincent Owens

1996

1974

The Wrestler

as Frank Bass

1991

2016

1960

The New Girl

as Kurt Harden

2024

Altered Reality

as Mike Wilson

1992

1999

The Sissy Duckling

as Father Duck (voice)

2020

M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters

as Dr. Howard Arden

2019

In Vino

as Charles

1975

Death Scream

as Peter Singleton

2018

Eva: A-7063

as Narrator (voice)

2001

2018

Honor Amongst Men

as Pop Halmo

2001

In Search of Peace

as David Ben Gurion (voice)

2003

The Commission

as Capt. J.W. 'Will' Fritz

2020

2011

Good Men

as Morty

2020

Bury Me in Armor

as Dimitry George

2015

2020

1978

The Good Doctor

as Various Roles

1957

The Night America Trembled

as 3rd Actor (as Edward Asner)

1981

A Small Killing

as Simon Shaber

2012

Casting By

as Self

2021

Blood

as The Prophet

1997

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

as Dr. Robert Servatius (voice)

-

Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary

as Self (archive footage)

1983

Koyaanisqatsi

as Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited)

1978

2016

Behind the Fear

as Narrator (voice)

2017

Production

2011

Let Go

as Executive Producer

2021

2021

Back Home Again

as In Memory Of

1997

Payback

as Executive Producer

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