Ed Asner
Acting
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.
As actor 398
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Simpsons
1989
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Family Guy
1999
American Dad!
2005
Teen Titans Go!
2013
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Bones
2005
Regular Show
2010
Saturday Night Live
1975
Hawaii Five-0
2010
Modern Family
2009
The X-Files
1993
The Good Wife
2009
King of the Hill
1997
The Middle
2009
CSI: NY
2004
Tony Awards
1956
Young Justice
2010
Ironside
1967
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
ER
1994
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Cobra Kai
2018
The Fugitive
1963
Omnibus
1952
Mad About You
1992
Mission: Impossible
1966
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Grace and Frankie
2015
Mom
2013
The Practice
1997
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
Spider-Man
1994
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970
American Playhouse
1982
Batman: The Animated Series
1992
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The Virginian
1962
Great Performances
1971
Touched by an Angel
1994
MacGyver
2016
Central Park
2020
The Wild Wild West
1965
Dr. Kildare
1961
The Cleveland Show
2009
Hot in Cleveland
2010
Match Game
1973
Highway to Heaven
1984
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
The Untouchables
1959
Doom Patrol
2019
Intimate Portrait
1993
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Gargoyles
1994
Dinosaurs
1991
Animaniacs
1993
The Boondocks
2005
Johnny Bravo
1997
Up
2009
Run for Your Life
1965
The Dead Zone
2002
Studio One
1948
Superman: The Animated Series
1996
Lou Grant
1977
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
2000
Burke's Law
1963
Hercules
1998
Gunsmoke
1955
Naked City
1958
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
1996
Route 66
1960
Rhoda
1974
Duckman
1994
The Outer Limits
1963
The Defenders
1961
Dharma & Greg
1997
The Spectacular Spider-Man
2008
Dinah!
1974
Medical Center
1969
The F.B.I.
1965
Arli$$
1996
The Angry Beavers
1997
Celebrity Family Feud
2015
Justice League Unlimited
2004
The Invaders
1967
Freakazoid!
1995
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990
The Oscars
1953
Dead to Me
2019
The Name of the Game
1968
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
The Magic School Bus
1994
The Flip Wilson Show
1970
The White Shadow
1978
Reading Rainbow
1983
Police Story
1973
The Sarah Silverman Program
2007
Stoney Burke
1962
Felony Squad
1966
Elf
2003
Outlaws
1960
The Mod Squad
1968
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966
Hearts Afire
1992
Men at Work
2012
Carl's Date
2023
Roots
1977
The Crazy Ones
2013
The Rat Patrol
1966
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
2003
Mr. Novak
1963
Sam Benedict
1962
The Animal
2001
Dumb and Dumber
1995
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973
Roseanne
1988
Chasing Life
2014
The Huntress
2000
Rich Man, Poor Man
1976
JFK
1991
Hard Rain
1998
The Lieutenant
1963
El Dorado
1966
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1965
Slattery's People
1964
The Eleventh Hour
1962
Max Steel
2000
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
Too Big to Fail
2011
Tall Tales & Legends
1985
Decoy
1957
The Bronx Zoo
1987
Cain's Hundred
1961
Dug Days
2021
Bruno the Kid
1996
Shatner's Raw Nerve
2008
The Bachelor
1999
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
2012
All Star Superman
2011
CBS Playhouse
1966
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2022
Thunder Alley
1994
Muppets Haunted Mansion
2021
The Trials of Rosie O'Neill
1990
The Premise
2021
I Know That Voice
2014
Ballmastrz: 9009
2018
The Gettysburg Address
2025
Fish Police
1992
Center of the Universe
2004
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
2010
Fort Apache, the Bronx
1981
Dug's Special Mission
2009
Profiles in Courage
1964
Koyaanisqatsi
1983
Foodfight!
2012
Maggie Winters
1998
Being Mary Tyler Moore
2023
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970
The Satan Bug
1965
Switched at Birth
1991
The Emmy Awards
1949
Andy Barker, P.I.
2007
Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays
2011
More Tales of the City
1998
Unplugged
Tender Is the Night
1985
Night of 100 Stars
1982
Daredevil vs. Spider-Man
2003
Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
2005
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
2020
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure
2003
Happily Ever After
1989
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Politically Incorrect
1993
Good Cops, Bad Cops
1990
Commitment to Life
2023
Kid Galahad
1962
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
Mitzi & 100 Guys
1975
Off the Rack
1985
An SNL Thanksgiving
2024
Super Sex
2016
Working Class
2011
Christmas Cottage
2008
The Christmas Card
2006
The Slender Thread
1965
Death Scream
1975
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
1987
Pope John XXIII
2002
Second Chances
2013
Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown
2002
The Good Doctor
1978
The Closer
1998
Olive, the Other Reindeer
1999
Skin Game
1971
Love Finds You in Valentine
2016
A Christmas Carol
1997
Island Prey
2001
Olympia
2018
Absolute Killers
2011
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
2009
Let Go
2011
Gigantic
2008
Moon Over Parador
1988
Sir! No Sir!
2005
Our Friend, Martin
1999
CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels!
2017
And the Winner Isn't
2017
Kate's Secret
1986
Christmas Dreams
2009
Spider-Man: The Return of the Green Goblin
2002
The Girl Most Likely To...
1973
Halls of Anger
1970
All of My Heart
2015
Axel: The Biggest Little Hero
2013
Faith, Hope & Love
2019
Cruel Doubt
1992
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Back Home Again
2021
Twigs
1975
All of My Heart: The Wedding
2018
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
1987
Gone in the Night
1996
Elf: How they Made the North Pole
2004
Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock
2004
Change of Habit
1969
Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas
2014
Christmas Is Here Again
2007
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
1991
Channels
2008
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
Casting By
2012
Saving Christmas
2017
All of My Heart: Inn Love
2017
The Sissy Duckling
1999
The Todd Killings
1971
The Long Way Home
1997
The Doomsday Flight
1966
Gypsy
1994
Scarlett
2021
Hard Four
2007
Mickey's 50
1978
The Impostor
1975
Elf: Film School for Kids
2004
Sam Cade
1972
The Venetian Affair
1966
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
2017
The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion
2002
Above Suspicion
2000
Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken
1995
Elf: That's a Wrap
2004
Academy Boyz
1997
M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters
2020
Gus
1976
They Call It Murder
1971
Not Another B Movie
2011
In Search of Peace
2001
The Gathering
1977
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
2015
Christmas on the Bayou
2013
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
Electile Dysfunction: Inside the Business of American Campaigns
2008
Perfect Game
2000
Daughter of the Mind
1969
The Last Child
1971
The Christmas Star
1986
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
2012
Gunn
1967
The Story of Santa Claus
1996
O'Hara's Wife
1982
The Nutcracker Sweet
2015
A StoryBots Christmas
2017
The Defender (Studio One)
1957
Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade
1996
Generation Gap
2008
A Different Approach
1978
Should've Been Romeo
2012
The Games Maker
2014
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
1970
Frozen in Time
2014
Good Men
2011
Daniel
1983
Remembering Roots
2002
Up: Upisodes
2009
The New Girl
1960
The Parting Glass
2018
Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show
1991
The Real Story of Happy Birthday To You
1991
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
Payback
1997
A Merry Murdoch Christmas
2015
O' Christmas Tree
1999
The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish
1977
Liberator
2012
Sleeping Dogs Lie
2005
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
1978
Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger
1995
Common Ground
2000
The Garden Left Behind
2020
Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving
2013
Senior Entourage
2021
Silent Motive
1991
Eva: A-7063
2018
LA DA Story
2018
Gahan Wilson's The Kid
2001
A Friendship in Vienna
1988
In Vino
2019
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
2016
Cracked Up
1987
Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man
2017
Captain Daddy
2021
A Small Killing
1981
The Commission
2003
The Wrestler
1974
Down on the Waterfront
1994
SEVEN
2020
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
1993
Out of the Woods
2005
Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
1984
Audrey
2014
Becoming Dick
2000
Tiger Within
2020
The Man Who Saved Christmas
2002
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
Altered Reality
2024
Hopelessly in June
2011
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011
A Case of Libel
1983
Heads
1994
The Family Man
1979
Dog's Best Friend
1997
Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure
2003
Missing Brendan
2004
The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay
2003
Angels on Tap
2018
A Fargo Christmas Story
2023
Joe's War
2017
Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas!
2017
The Marva Collins Story
1981
Crab Orchard
2005
Bring Him Home
2000
Hey, I'm Alive
1975
Elf: Tag Along with Will Ferrell
2004
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
1990
House on Greenapple Road
1970
The Night America Trembled
1957
Snowden's Christmas
1999
Haunts of the Very Rich
1972
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
1995
I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!
2015
Anatomy of an Illness
1984
Darlin' Clementine
1986
Honor Amongst Men
2018
Fanfare for a Death Scene
1964
Love and Action in Chicago
1999
Bury Me in Armor
2020
Ed Asner's Oral History
2018
Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
1986
The Gliksmans
2017
A Man and His Prostate
Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7
2011
Vital Signs
1986
The Impersonation Murder Case
1975
Elephant Sighs
2012
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
2005
Getting Ed Laid
2016
Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting
2018
Behind the Fear
2016
Blood
2021
The Fumbleheads
1997
Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII
2002
Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary
J-24
1960
Love Meet Hope
2016
Identical
2011
Titanic: Sinking the Myths
2016
Rain Beau's End
2020
Autism and Cake
2012
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
2007
The Murder Men
1961
Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom
2000
The True Story of the Amityville Murders: From Homicide to Horror
2011
The Triumph of William Henry Harrison
2010
American Road
2013
Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union
2008
The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It
2002
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror
2005
The Rich Have Their Own Photographers
2007
Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts
2015
Hanged on a Twisted Cross
1996
Mary Jane: A Musical Potumentary
2016
Americas in Transition
1982
