Edward 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:
- 127
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Satan Bug 1965-03-26
- 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 | The Garden Left Behind | Dr. Cleary | 2020-08-28 |
| Movie | Rain Beau's End | Gunny | 2020-11-17 |
| Movie | Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting | Jefferson | 2018-06-09 |
| Movie | CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels! | Arthur (voice) | 2017-09-07 |
| Movie | Yamasong: March of the Hollows | Elder Pyreez | 2017-09-10 |
| Movie | Joe's War | Harry | 2017-03-17 |
| Movie | All of My Heart: Inn Love | Vern | 2017-10-07 |
| Movie | And the Winner Isn't | Self | 2017-12-08 |
| Movie | Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas! | Santa | 2017-11-21 |
| Movie | Love Finds You in Valentine | Gabriel Morgan | 2016-02-14 |
| Movie | Super Sex | George | 2016-04-15 |
| Movie | Titanic: Sinking the Myths | Wilhelm Müller | 2016-09-01 |
| Movie | All of My Heart | Vern | 2015-02-14 |
| Movie | The Nutcracker Sweet | Owl | 2015-06-03 |
| Movie | I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!! | Himself | 2015-04-25 |
| Movie | A Merry Murdoch Christmas | Kris Kringle | 2015-12-21 |
| Movie | Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration | Self / Lou Grant (archive footage) | 2015-10-13 |
| Movie | Audrey | Walt | 2014-02-14 |
| Movie | I Know That Voice | Self | 2014-01-07 |
| Movie | Frozen in Time | Grandpa (voice) | 2014-11-12 |
| Movie | Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas | Santa (voice) | 2014-12-16 |
| Movie | The Games Maker | Nicholas Drago | 2014-07-03 |
| Movie | Second Chances | Chief Buddy | 2013-05-20 |
| Movie | Christmas on the Bayou | Papa Noel | 2013-12-14 |
| Movie | Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl | Self | 2012-01-16 |
| Movie | Should've Been Romeo | Charlie | 2012-04-28 |
| Movie | Foodfight! | Mr. Leonard | 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 | Hopelessly in June | Rabbi | 2011-06-06 |
| Movie | The Desert of Forbidden Art | Voice | 2011-03-18 |
| Movie | Not Another B Movie | Angry Investor | 2011-07-12 |
| Movie | Identical | Yaakov Washington | 2011-12-01 |
| Movie | Too Big to Fail | Warren Buffett | 2011-11-25 |
| Movie | Let Go | Artie Satz | 2011-10-25 |
| Movie | Superman/Batman: Apocalypse | Granny Goodness (voice) | 2010-09-28 |
| 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 | Out of the Woods | Jack Green | 2005-04-02 |
| Movie | Sir! No Sir! | Col. Heinl | 2005-05-19 |
| Movie | Sleeping Dogs Lie | Sheriff Delaney | 2005-02-28 |
| Movie | The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror | Himself | 2005-07-15 |
| Movie | Crab Orchard | 2005-09-23 | |
| Movie | Daredevil vs. Spider-Man | J. Jonah Jameson (voice) | 2003-02-11 |
| Movie | Elf | Santa | 2003-10-09 |
| Movie | Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure | Narrator (voice) | 2003-10-27 |
| Movie | Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure | Uncle Nick | 2003-12-20 |
| Movie | Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown | J. Jonah Jameson | 2002-04-30 |
| Movie | Pope John XXIII | Angelo Roncalli | 2002-01-01 |
| 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 | Bring Him Home | Geza | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Common Ground | Ira | 2000-01-29 |
| Movie | Above Suspicion | Thomas O'Claire | 2000-06-07 |
| Movie | Our Friend, Martin | Mr. Harris (voice) (as Ed Asner) | 1999-01-12 |
| Movie | The Sissy Duckling | Father Duck (voice) | 1999-09-14 |
| Movie | O' Christmas Tree | Nutcracker (voice) | 1999-01-01 |
| Movie | Olive, The Other Reindeer | Santa Claus (voice) | 1999-12-17 |
| Movie | The Bachelor | Sid Gluckman | 1999-11-05 |
| Movie | Love and Action in Chicago | Taylor | 1999-09-15 |
| Movie | Hard Rain | Uncle Charlie | 1998-01-16 |
| Movie | Dog's Best Friend | Jeep, the Sheep Dog (voice) | 1997-03-23 |
| Movie | Payback | Jack Patkanis | 1997-02-10 |
| Movie | The Fumbleheads | Charlie Atwater | 1997-01-01 |
| 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 | A Christmas Carol | Marley (voice) | 1997-12-20 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Heads | Ab Abbot | 1994-01-29 |
| Movie | Down on the Waterfront | 1994-04-26 | |
| Movie | Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy | Self | 1993-01-20 |
| Movie | Gypsy | Charles Thompson | 1993-12-12 |
| Movie | Switched at Birth | Ted Marx | 1991-04-28 |
| Movie | JFK | Guy Bannister | 1991-12-20 |
| Movie | Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus | Edward P. Mitchell | 1991-12-08 |
| 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 | A Friendship in Vienna | Opah Oskar Reikman | 1988-08-27 |
| Movie | Moon Over Parador | Self | 1988-09-09 |
| 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 | Kate's Secret | Dr. Resnick | 1986-11-17 |
| Movie | The Christmas Star | Horace McNickle | 1986-12-14 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars II | Self | 1985-03-10 |
| 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 | The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish | Huey P. Long | 1977-03-21 |
| Movie | The Gathering | Adam | 1977-12-04 |
| 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 | The Last Child | Barstow | 1971-10-05 |
| Movie | Skin Game | Plunkett | 1971-09-30 |
| Movie | The Todd Killings | Fred Reardon | 1971-10-20 |
| Movie | They Call It Murder | Chief Otto Larkin | 1971-12-17 |
| Movie | House on Greenapple Road | Sheriff Muntz | 1970-01-11 |
| Movie | Halls of Anger | Ernie McKay | 1970-04-29 |
| Movie | The Old Man Who Cried Wolf | Dr. Morheim | 1970-10-13 |
| Movie | Daughter of the Mind | Saul Wiener | 1969-12-09 |
| Movie | The Venetian Affair | Frank Rosenfeld | 1967-01-18 |
| Movie | Gunn | Lt. Jacoby | 1967-06-28 |
| Movie | The Doomsday Flight | Feldman | 1966-12-13 |
| Movie | El Dorado | Bart Jason | 1966-12-17 |
| Movie | The Satan Bug | Henchman Veretti | 1965-03-26 |
| Movie | The Slender Thread | Det. Judd Ridley | 1965-12-15 |