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Ed Asner
0 FOLLOWERS • 131 CREDITS • NOV 15, 1929 - AUG 29, 2021 • 91
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.
Known For
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Bones
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Mission: Impossible
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The Kelly Clarkson Show
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Gunsmoke
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ER
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Hawaii Five-0
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The Middle
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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The Good Wife
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MacGyver
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Studio One
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The Fugitive
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Celebrity Family Feud
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The Virginian
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CSI: NY
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The F.B.I.
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E! True Hollywood Story
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Modern Family
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American Dad!
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Mad About You
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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Tony Awards
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Route 66
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The Name of the Game
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/6jwEtk9UgHoQCVrqHuRmbgSvwMS.jpg)
Hawaii Five-O
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Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
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Superman: The Animated Series
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/mvSXebWlltJxJUNNkoLb0tzygi2.jpg)
Hot in Cleveland
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Dr. Kildare
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The Defenders
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Run for Your Life
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/1VXTfckVsiNRqhWs9fdozyljuGy.jpg)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/mS5SLxMYcKfUxA0utBSR5MOAWWr.jpg)
Regular Show
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/70JM7KslaQEuR82eAbiykGgtjDH.jpg)
Mr. Novak
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4UARHgxTm7xwhcEHiVDwF0Gv4j0.jpg)
Roseanne
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/7OKZSUIWhjFP0F2s478zTrAYwDB.jpg)
The Practice
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The X-Files
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Highway to Heaven
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/cJgRJdI1UsdpXEpkVtlmT0quTzm.jpg)
Arliss
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/sHGuKFjIBisPk8cvtCZTDVktYfs.jpg)
Saturday Night Live
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Golden Globe Awards
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Cain's Hundred
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Outlaws
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/7nVSlqyqtlXuTiEYjku7fzWYav5.jpg)
Rhoda
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King of the Hill
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Doom Patrol
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Cobra Kai
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Teen Titans Go!
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Touched by an Angel
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4qUf7B8eBZKjwjhfgU63J9OvQsT.jpg)
The Flip Wilson Show
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/y0HUz4eUNUe3TeEd8fQWYazPaC7.jpg)
Family Guy
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The Cleveland Show
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Grace and Frankie
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The Rat Patrol
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The Wild Wild West
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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
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Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/7a6oArBmCIkrYYBsM36SPDJvlFJ.jpg)
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/lBomQFW1vlm1yUYMNSbFZ45R4Ox.jpg)
Batman: The Animated Series
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/kIi3T7X0kmiV9vGDme146P2d979.jpg)
Mom
![](https://images.rivr.app/posters/1000/25613.jpg)
CBS Playhouse
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Tall Tales & Legends
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The Crazy Ones
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The Emmy Awards
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The Angry Beavers
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The Holiday Movies That Made Us
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Ironside
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Medical Center
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Central Park
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Justice League Unlimited
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Dead to Me
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The Premise
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The Boondocks
![](https://images.rivr.app/posters/1000/5533.jpg)
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
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Hearts Afire
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The Magic School Bus
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Andy Barker, P.I.
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The Lieutenant
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Curb Your Enthusiasm
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Young Justice
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The Eleventh Hour
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The Simpsons
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Maggie Winters
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The Spectacular Spider-Man
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Ballmastrz: 9009
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Earth and the American Dream
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The Movies That Made Us
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JFK
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More Tales of the City
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Switched at Birth
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Too Big to Fail
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Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
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El Dorado
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Common Ground
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The Bronx Zoo
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Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
![](https://images.rivr.app/posters/1000/5437.jpg)
Profiles in Courage
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
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Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown
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The Trials of Rosie O'Neill
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Spider-Man
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Center of the Universe
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The Night America Trembled
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Snowden's Christmas
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Hard Rain
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The Slender Thread
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Heads
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Daniel
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Dug's Special Mission
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Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
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Elf
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The Animal
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The Sissy Duckling
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Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken
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The Closer
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SEVEN
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Fish Police
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Gunn
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/aCgeGyHA1ZqQ7E3jzfDhTq5859K.jpg)
The Good Doctor
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Dug Days
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A Case of Libel
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A Friendship in Vienna
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Lou Grant
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Carl's Date
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The Christmas Star
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