Ed Asner
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 ForActing
- Born15 November 1929 (age 96)
- Place of BirthKansas City, Missouri, USA
Ed Asner
- Known ForActing
- Born15 November 1929 (age 96)
- Place of BirthKansas City, Missouri, USA
KNOWN FOR
PHOTOS
CREDITS
The Gettysburg Address
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2025
Altered Reality
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2024
Carl's Date
7.5
2023
Being Mary Tyler Moore
6.806
2023
A Fargo Christmas Story
-
2023
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
6.829
2022
Muppets Haunted Mansion
6.4
2021
Back Home Again
7.0
2021
Scarlett
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2021
Senior Entourage
2.0
2021
Blood
-
2021
Tiger Within
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2020
The Garden Left Behind
5.9
2020
M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters
5.767
2020
SEVEN
8.8
2020
Bury Me in Armor
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2020
Rain Beau's End
3.5
2020
Faith, Hope & Love
7.7
2019
In Vino
5.9
2019
The Parting Glass
5.7
2018
All of My Heart: The Wedding
7.5
2018
Olympia
8.0
2018
LA DA Story
10.0
2018
Angels on Tap
5.0
2018
Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting
1.0
2018
Eva: A-7063
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2018
Honor Amongst Men
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2018
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
4.1
2017
Joe's War
4.0
2017
CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels!
4.0
2017
All of My Heart: Inn Love
7.0
2017
Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas!
4.9
2017
A StoryBots Christmas
5.6
2017
And the Winner Isn't
5.7
2017
Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man
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2017
Saving Christmas
4.8
2017
Getting Ed Laid
1.0
2016
Love Finds You in Valentine
6.2
2016
Super Sex
5.8
2016
Titanic: Sinking the Myths
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2016
Love Meet Hope
7.0
2016
Mary Jane: A Musical Potumentary
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2016
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
7.2
2016
All of My Heart
7.0
2015
The Nutcracker Sweet
4.6
2015
I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!
5.0
2015
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
10.0
2015
Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts
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2015
A Merry Murdoch Christmas
7.6
2015
The Games Maker
5.3
2014
Audrey
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2014
Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas
5.406
2014
Waiting in the Wings: The Musical
5.3
2014
Frozen in Time
4.4
2014
I Know That Voice
7.087
2014
Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving
7.5
2013
Axel: The Biggest Little Hero
2.8
2013
Second Chances
6.2
2013
Christmas on the Bayou
6.0
2013
American Road
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2013
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
6.0
2012
Should've Been Romeo
6.0
2012
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
5.176
2012
Foodfight!
1.899
2012
Elephant Sighs
2.3
2012
Autism and Cake
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2012
Liberator
7.7
2012
Casting By
7.1
2012
Too Big to Fail
6.974
2011
All Star Superman
6.846
2011
Hopelessly in June
5.0
2011
Let Go
5.3
2011
The Desert of Forbidden Art
4.7
2011
The True Story of the Amityville Murders: From Homicide to Horror
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2011
Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7
8.0
2011
Identical
4.25
2011
Not Another B Movie
5.6
2011
Good Men
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2011
Absolute Killers
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2011
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
7.158
2010
The Triumph of William Henry Harrison
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2010
Up
7.958
2009
Dug's Special Mission
6.983
2009
Christmas Cottage
6.3
2008
Gigantic
5.66
2008
Generation Gap
7.2
2008
Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union
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2008
Channels
3.0
2008
Christmas Is Here Again
4.0
2007
Hard Four
5.5
2007
The Rich Have Their Own Photographers
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2007
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
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2007
The Christmas Card
6.4
2006
Sir! No Sir!
6.7
2005
Sleeping Dogs Lie
5.0
2005
Out of the Woods
5.2
2005
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror
6.2
2005
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
5.2
2005
Crab Orchard
10.0
2005
Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
6.922
2005
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2.0
2004
Missing Brendan
4.5
2004
Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock
7.0
2004
Elf
6.655
2003
The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay
6.2
2003
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie’s Island Adventure
4.0
2003
Daredevil vs. Spider-Man
7.474
2003
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
9.4
2003
Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure
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2003
The Commission
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2003
The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion
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2002
The Man Who Saved Christmas
5.9
2002
Pope John XXIII
6.6
2002
Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII
-
2002
Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown
7.2
2002
The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It
6.0
2002
The Animal
5.111
2001
Island Prey
5.5
2001
Gahan Wilson's The Kid
-
2001
In Search of Peace
6.5
2001
Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom
-
2000
Becoming Dick
2.0
2000
Above Suspicion
5.8
2000
Perfect Game
8.0
2000
Common Ground
4.7
2000
Bring Him Home
6.5
2000
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
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2000
The Bachelor
5.2
1999
Olive, The Other Reindeer
6.8
1999
O' Christmas Tree
5.1
1999
Our Friend, Martin
7.4
1999
Snowden's Christmas
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1999
The Sissy Duckling
5.1
1999
Love and Action in Chicago
5.0
1999
Hard Rain
5.848
1998
A Christmas Carol
6.4
1997
The Long Way Home
7.1
1997
Payback
6.7
1997
Dog's Best Friend
2.0
1997
The Fumbleheads
3.0
1997
Academy Boyz
2.0
1997
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
6.6
1997
Gone in the Night
6.8
1996
The Story of Santa Claus
6.5
1996
Hanged on a Twisted Cross
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1996
Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken
6.9
1996
Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger
9.0
1995
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
4.5
1995
Down on the Waterfront
5.0
1994
Heads
2.2
1994
Gypsy
6.5
1993
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
5.6
1993
Earth and the American Dream
6.7
1992
JFK
7.6
1991
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
7.0
1991
The Real Story of Happy Birthday To You
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1991
Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show
6.0
1991
Silent Motive
-
1991
Switched at Birth
6.0
1991
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
6.2
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
4.0
1990
The Cops Are Robbers
4.0
1990
Happily Ever After
5.6
1989
Moon Over Parador
5.8
1988
A Friendship in Vienna
6.0
1988
Cracked Up
-
1987
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
5.6
1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
7.7
1987
The Christmas Star
5.613
1986
Darlin' Clementine
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1986
Vital Signs
-
1986
Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
8.2
1986
Kate's Secret
5.5
1986
Night of 100 Stars II
8.0
1985
Anatomy of an Illness
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1984
Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
6.0
1984
Daniel
6.6
1983
A Case of Libel
2.0
1983
Koyaanisqatsi
7.87
1983
Americas in Transition
7.0
1982
O'Hara's Wife
-
1982
Night of 100 Stars
6.5
1982
Fort Apache, the Bronx
6.5
1981
The Marva Collins Story
7.4
1981
A Small Killing
8.0
1981
The Family Man
-
1979
A Different Approach
6.3
1978
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
-
1978
The Good Doctor
0.5
1978
Mickey's 50
-
1978
The Gathering
4.5
1977
The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish
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1977
Gus
6.0
1976
Mitzi & 100 Guys
-
1975
The Impersonation Murder Case
-
1975
Twigs
-
1975
The Impostor
6.0
1975
Hey, I'm Alive
5.0
1975
Death Scream
6.6
1975
The Wrestler
4.2
1974
The Girl Most Likely To...
6.6
1973
Haunts of the Very Rich
5.7
1972
Sam Cade
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1972
Skin Game
6.609
1971
The Todd Killings
4.3
1971
The Last Child
7.0
1971
They Call It Murder
6.5
1971
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
5.8
1970
Halls of Anger
5.6
1970
House on Greenapple Road
6.0
1970
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
6.0
1970
Daughter of the Mind
6.4
1969
Change of Habit
5.6
1969
Gunn
5.4
1967
The Venetian Affair
4.9
1967
El Dorado
7.355
1966
The Doomsday Flight
6.5
1966
The Satan Bug
6.2
1965
The Slender Thread
7.1
1965
Fanfare for a Death Scene
6.0
1964
Kid Galahad
6.1
1962
The Murder Men
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1961
J-24
-
1960
The New Girl
-
1960
The Defender (Studio One)
7.2
1957
The Night America Trembled
7.5