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Ed Asner
Known for: ActingEdward 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.
Filmography 118
Spider-Man
as J. Jonah Jameson (voice) 
Dug Days
as Carl (voice) 
Lou Grant
as Lou Grant 
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
as Lou Grant 
Gargoyles
as Hudson (voice) 
Up
+2
as Carl Fredricksen (voice) 
Freakazoid!
as Sgt. Cosgrove (voice) 
Carl's Date
as Carl (voice) 
Muppets Haunted Mansion
as Ghost of Claude 
The Animal
+4
as Chief Wilson 
Elf
+4
as Santa 
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
as Grandpa (voice) 
Hard Rain
+2
as Uncle Charlie 
JFK
+1
as Guy Bannister 
The Trials of Rosie O'Neill
as Walter Kovacs 
El Dorado
+2
as Bart Jason 
The Bachelor
+1
as Gluckman 
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
+2
as Mr. Carson 
Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays
as Dr. Wasserman 
Too Big to Fail
+2
as Warren Buffett 
All Star Superman
+3
as Perry White (voice) 
Dug's Special Mission
+1
as Carl Fredricksen (voice) (uncredited) 
Being Mary Tyler Moore
as Self (voice) 
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
+2
as Granny Goodness (voice) 
Working Class
as Hank Greziak 
Fort Apache, the Bronx
as Connolly 
Kid Galahad
as Assistant District Attorney Frank Gerson (uncredited) 
The Satan Bug
as Henchman Veretti 
Koyaanisqatsi
+2
as Self (archive footage) 
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
+2
as Woody Garfield 
Happily Ever After
as Scowl the Owl (voice) 
Faith, Hope & Love
as Harry Karetas 
Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure
+2
as Uncle Nick 
CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels!
+5
as Arthur (voice) 
Gigantic
as Kirby Weathersby 
Daniel
as Jacob Ascher 
Christmas Cottage
+5
as Sidney 
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
as Scalawag (voice) 
Foodfight!
as Mr. Leonard (voice) 
I Know That Voice
as Self 
Let Go
as Artie 
A Christmas Carol
as Marley (voice) 
Moon Over Parador
+1
as Self 
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
as Edward P. Mitchell 
Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas
+2
as Santa (voice) 
Generation Gap
as Bart Cahill 
All of My Heart: The Wedding
as Vern 
Axel: The Biggest Little Hero
as Bonta / Narrator (voice) 
Olive, the Other Reindeer
as Santa Claus (voice) 
Change of Habit
as Lt. Moretti 
The Slender Thread
+1
as Det. Judd Ridley 
Love Finds You in Valentine
as Gabriel Morgan 
The Christmas Card
as Luke Spelman 
All of My Heart
as Vern 
All of My Heart: Inn Love
as Vern 
The Venetian Affair
as Frank Rosenfeld 
The Games Maker
+5
as Nicholas Drago 
The Nutcracker Sweet
+3
as Owl (voice) 
The Parting Glass
+2
as Tommy 
Skin Game
+1
as Plunkett 
Christmas Is Here Again
as Krad (voice) 
Gus
+1
as Hank Cooper 
Christmas on the Bayou
+2
as Papa Noel 
Gone in the Night
as Det. John Waters 
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
as Elder Pyreez (voice) 
The Sissy Duckling
as Father Duck (voice) 
They Call It Murder
as Chief Otto Larkin 
Gypsy
as Charles Thompson 
The Long Way Home
+2
as George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice) 
Love and Action in Chicago
as Taylor 
Above Suspicion
+1
as Thomas O'Claire 
The Todd Killings
as Fred Reardon 
M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters
+4
as Dr. Howard Arden 
The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay
as Augie Sinclair 
The Christmas Star
+1
as Horace McNickle 
Altered Reality
+2
as Mike Wilson 
The Garden Left Behind
+2
as Dr. Cleary 
Honor Amongst Men
+5
as Pop Halmo 
Second Chances
as Chief Buddy 
Anatomy of an Illness
as Norman Cousins 
Channels
as Ed Packard 
The Doomsday Flight
as Feldman 
Kate's Secret
as Dr. Resnick 
A StoryBots Christmas
as Santa 
The Night America Trembled
as 3rd Actor (as Edward Asner) 
The Desert of Forbidden Art
as Voice 
The Gathering
as Adam 
Super Sex
as George 
The Man Who Saved Christmas
as Charles Gilbert 
Fanfare for a Death Scene
as Pike 
Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting
+2
as Jefferson 
Mitzi & 100 Guys
as Self 
The Story of Santa Claus
as Santa Claus (voice) 
O' Christmas Tree
+1
as Nutcracker (voice) 
Saving Christmas
+1
as Rick 
Hopelessly in June
as Rabbi 
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
as Self 
A Merry Murdoch Christmas
as Kris Kringle 
Not Another B Movie
as Angry Investor 
Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure
as Narrator (voice) 
Senior Entourage
as Ed 
I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!
as Himself 
Out of the Woods
as Jack Green 
Sir! No Sir!
+1
as Col. Heinl
Scarlett
as Lou
Rain Beau's End
+2
as Gunny 
In Vino
+4
as Charles 
Halls of Anger
as Ernie McKay 
Tiger Within
as Samuel 
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
as Narrator 
Identical
as Yaakov Washington 
Angels on Tap
+1
as Swifty 
Perfect Game
as Billy Hicks