Ed 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:
- 197
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Fall of 2008
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Gettysburg Address 2025-11-19
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Fall of 2008 | Carl Fredricksen (Up promo) | 2026 |
| Movie | The Gettysburg Address | Edward Everett (voice) | 2025-11-19 |
| Movie | Altered Reality | Mike Wilson | 2024-02-16 |
| Movie | A Fargo Christmas Story | Popcorn Bud | 2023-12-02 |
| Movie | Being Mary Tyler Moore | Self (voice) | 2023-03-13 |
| Movie | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules | Grandpa Heffley (voice) | 2022-12-02 |
| Movie | Scarlett | 2021-12-31 | |
| Movie | Senior Entourage | Ed | 2021-05-03 |
| Movie | Muppets Haunted Mansion | Ghost of Claude | 2021-10-08 |
| Movie | M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters | Dr. Howard Arden | 2020-03-13 |
| Movie | The Garden Left Behind | Dr. Cleary | 2020-08-28 |
| Movie | Rain Beau's End | Gunny | 2020-11-17 |
| Movie | Bury Me in Armor | Dimitry George | 2020-12-12 |
| Movie | Faith, Hope & Love | Harry Karetas | 2019-03-15 |
| Movie | In Vino | Charles | 2019-11-01 |
| Movie | LA DA Story | Self (archive footage) | 2018-01-01 |
| Movie | Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting | Jefferson | 2018-06-09 |
| Movie | The Parting Glass | Tommy | 2018-06-24 |
| Movie | All of My Heart: The Wedding | Vern | 2018-09-29 |
| Movie | CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels! | Arthur (voice) | 2017-09-07 |
| Movie | Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man | Adult Walter (voice) | 2017-01-28 |
| Movie | Yamasong: March of the Hollows | Elder Pyreez | 2017-09-10 |
| Movie | Joe's War | Harry | 2017-03-17 |
| Movie | A StoryBots Christmas | Santa | 2017-12-01 |
| Movie | All of My Heart: Inn Love | Vern | 2017-10-07 |
| Movie | Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas! | Santa | 2017-11-21 |
| Movie | Saving Christmas | Rick | 2017-11-06 |
| Movie | And the Winner Isn't | Self | 2017-12-08 |
| Movie | Love Finds You in Valentine | Gabriel Morgan | 2016-02-14 |
| Movie | Love Meet Hope | Mr. James | 2016-02-20 |
| Movie | Titanic: Sinking the Myths | Wilhelm Müller | 2016-09-01 |
| Movie | Super Sex | George | 2016-04-15 |
| Movie | The Best Democracy Money Can Buy | Self | 2016-09-23 |
| Movie | The Nutcracker Sweet | Owl | 2015-06-03 |
| Movie | All of My Heart | Vern | 2015-02-14 |
| Movie | I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!! | Himself | 2015-04-25 |
| Movie | Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration | Self / Lou Grant (archive footage) | 2015-10-13 |
| Movie | A Merry Murdoch Christmas | Kris Kringle | 2015-12-21 |
| Movie | Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts | Self | 2015-11-06 |
| Movie | Audrey | Walt | 2014-02-14 |
| Movie | Waiting in the Wings: The Musical | Jefferson | 2014-04-01 |
| Movie | I Know That Voice | Self | 2014-01-07 |
| Movie | Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas | Santa (voice) | 2014-12-16 |
| Movie | Frozen in Time | Grandpa (voice) | 2014-11-12 |
| Movie | The Games Maker | Nicholas Drago | 2014-07-03 |
| Movie | Second Chances | Chief Buddy | 2013-05-20 |
| Movie | Axel: The Biggest Little Hero | Bonta / Narrator | 2013-08-02 |
| Movie | Christmas on the Bayou | Papa Noel | 2013-12-14 |
| Movie | Should've Been Romeo | Charlie | 2012-04-28 |
| Movie | Elephant Sighs | Leo | 2012-06-12 |
| Movie | Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl | Self | 2012-01-16 |
| Movie | Liberator | President Whitlock | 2012-09-15 |
| Movie | Foodfight! | Mr. Leonard (voice) | 2012-06-15 |
| Movie | Casting By | Self | 2012-11-01 |
| Movie | Home Alone: The Holiday Heist | Mr. Carson | 2012-12-03 |
| Movie | Hopelessly in June | Rabbi | 2011-06-06 |
| Movie | The Desert of Forbidden Art | Voice | 2011-03-18 |
| Series | Working Class | Hank Greziak | 2011-01-28 |
| Movie | Not Another B Movie | Angry Investor | 2011-07-12 |
| Movie | All Star Superman | Perry White (voice) | 2011-01-01 |
| Series | Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays | Dr. Wasserman | 2011-09-14 |
| Movie | Identical | Yaakov Washington | 2011-12-01 |
| Movie | Too Big to Fail | Warren Buffett | 2011-11-25 |
| Movie | Absolute Killers | 2011-10-01 | |
| Movie | Let Go | Artie | 2011-10-25 |
| Movie | Superman/Batman: Apocalypse | Granny Goodness (voice) | 2010-09-28 |
| Movie | The Triumph of William Henry Harrison | 2010-10-04 | |
| Series | The Line | 2009-03-16 | |
| Movie | Up | Carl Fredricksen (voice) | 2009-05-28 |
| Movie | Dug's Special Mission | Carl Fredricksen (voice) (uncredited) | 2009-11-10 |
| Movie | Generation Gap | Bart Cahill | 2008-11-01 |
| Movie | Channels | Ed Packard | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | Gigantic | Kirby Weathersby | 2008-09-09 |
| Movie | Christmas Cottage | Sidney | 2008-10-15 |
| Movie | Hard Four | Golden Hands Segal | 2007-11-01 |
| Movie | Christmas Is Here Again | Krad (voice) | 2007-10-20 |
| Movie | The Christmas Card | Luke Spelman | 2006-12-02 |
| Movie | Crab Orchard | 2005-09-23 | |
| Movie | Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class | Narrator | 2005-08-31 |
| Movie | Out of the Woods | Jack Green | 2005-04-02 |
| Movie | Sleeping Dogs Lie | Sheriff Delaney | 2005-02-28 |
| Movie | Spider-Man: The Venom Saga | J. Jonah Jameson | 2005-06-07 |
| Movie | The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror | Himself | 2005-07-15 |
| Movie | Sir! No Sir! | Col. Heinl | 2005-05-19 |
| Series | Justice League Unlimited | Hephaestus / Granny Goodness | 2004-07-31 |
| Series | Center of the Universe | Art Barnett | 2004-10-27 |
| Series | Spider-Man: The New Animated Series | Officer Barr | 2003-07-11 |
| Movie | The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series | Self | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | Daredevil vs. Spider-Man | J. Jonah Jameson (voice) | 2003-02-11 |
| 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 | Elf | Santa | 2003-11-07 |
| Movie | The Commission | Capt. J.W. 'Will' Fritz | 2003-11-07 |
| Movie | Pope John XXIII | Angelo Roncalli | 2002-01-01 |
| Movie | Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown | J. Jonah Jameson | 2002-04-30 |
| 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 | In Search of Peace | David Ben Gurion (voice) | 2001-09-21 |
| Movie | Bring Him Home | Geza | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Above Suspicion | Thomas O'Claire | 2000-06-07 |
| Movie | Perfect Game | Billy Hicks | 2000-04-18 |
| Movie | Common Ground | Ira | 2000-01-29 |
| Movie | Our Friend, Martin | Mr. Harris (voice) (as Ed Asner) | 1999-01-12 |
| Movie | The Bachelor | Gluckman | 1999-11-05 |
| Movie | Olive, The Other Reindeer | Santa Claus (voice) | 1999-12-17 |
| Movie | Love and Action in Chicago | Taylor | 1999-09-15 |
| Series | The Closer | 1998-02-23 | |
| Movie | Hard Rain | Uncle Charlie | 1998-01-16 |
| Movie | Payback | Jack Patkanis | 1997-02-10 |
| Movie | Dog's Best Friend | Jeep, the Sheep Dog (voice) | 1997-03-23 |
| Movie | The Fumbleheads | Charlie Atwater | 1997-01-01 |
| Series | Recess | 1997-09-13 | |
| Movie | The Trial of Adolf Eichmann | Dr. Robert Servatius (voice) | 1997-04-30 |
| Movie | Academy Boyz | 1997-12-02 | |
| Movie | The Long Way Home | George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice) | 1997-09-19 |
| Movie | A Christmas Carol | Marley (voice) | 1997-12-20 |
| Movie | Hanged on a Twisted Cross | Narrator | 1996-01-01 |
| 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 |
| Series | Freakazoid! | Sgt. Cosgrove (voice) | 1995-09-09 |
| Series | Thunder Alley | Gil Jones | 1994-03-09 |
| Movie | Heads | Ab Abbot | 1994-01-29 |
| Series | Spider-Man | J. Jonah Jameson (voice) | 1994-11-19 |
| Series | Gargoyles | Hudson (voice) | 1994-10-24 |
| Movie | Gypsy | Charles Thompson | 1993-12-12 |
| Movie | Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy | Self | 1993-01-20 |
| Series | Fish Police | 1992-02-28 | |
| Series | Cruel Doubt | Bill Osteen | 1992-05-17 |
| Movie | Earth and the American Dream | Reader (voice) | 1992-10-01 |
| Movie | Switched at Birth | Ted Marx | 1991-04-28 |
| Movie | Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus | Edward P. Mitchell | 1991-12-08 |
| Movie | JFK | Guy Bannister | 1991-12-20 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990-05-21 |
| Movie | Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less | Harvey Metcalfe | 1990-03-25 |
| Movie | The Cops Are Robbers | 1990-12-09 | |
| Series | The Trials of Rosie O'Neill | Walter Kovacs | 1990-09-17 |
| Movie | Happily Ever After | Scowl the Owl (voice) | 1989-06-30 |
| Movie | Moon Over Parador | Self | 1988-09-09 |
| Movie | A Friendship in Vienna | Opah Oskar Reikman | 1988-08-27 |
| Series | The Bronx Zoo | 1987-03-19 | |
| Movie | Cracked Up | Rev. Vincent Owens | 1987-05-26 |
| Series | The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood | Self - Presenter | 1987-07-03 |
| Movie | Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night | Scalawag (voice) | 1987-08-06 |
| Movie | Joshua and the Battle of Jericho | Joshua (voice) | 1986-04-25 |
| 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 |
| Series | Tender Is the Night | Devereux Warren | 1985-09-23 |
| Series | Off the Rack | Sam Waltman | 1985-03-15 |
| Series | Tall Tales & Legends | Lucky Jake | 1985-09-25 |
| Movie | Anatomy of an Illness | Norman Cousins | 1984-05-15 |
| Movie | Koyaanisqatsi | Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1983-04-27 |
| Movie | A Case of Libel | Robert Sloane | 1983-10-17 |
| Movie | Daniel | Jacob Ascher | 1983-08-26 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 |
| Movie | O'Hara's Wife | Bob O'Hara | 1982-01-01 |
| Movie | The Marva Collins Story | Narrator (voice) | 1981-12-01 |
| Movie | Fort Apache, the Bronx | Connolly | 1981-02-06 |
| Movie | The Family Man | Eddie Madden | 1979-12-19 |
| Series | Roots | 1977-01-23 | |
| Movie | The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish | Huey P. Long | 1977-03-21 |
| Series | Lou Grant | Lou Grant | 1977-09-20 |
| Movie | The Gathering | Adam | 1977-12-04 |
| Movie | Gus | Hank Cooper | 1976-07-07 |
| Series | Rich Man, Poor Man | Axel Jordache | 1976-02-01 |
| 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 | Sam Cade | 1972-01-01 | |
| Movie | Skin Game | Plunkett | 1971-09-30 |
| Movie | They Call It Murder | Chief Otto Larkin | 1971-12-17 |
| Movie | The Todd Killings | Fred Reardon | 1971-10-20 |
| Movie | The Last Child | Barstow | 1971-10-05 |
| Movie | Halls of Anger | Ernie McKay | 1970-04-29 |
| Movie | House on Greenapple Road | Sheriff Muntz | 1970-01-11 |
| Movie | The Old Man Who Cried Wolf | Dr. Morheim | 1970-10-13 |
| Series | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Lou Grant | 1970-09-19 |
| Movie | They Call Me Mister Tibbs! | Woody Garfield | 1970-07-10 |
| Movie | Change of Habit | Lt. Moretti | 1969-11-10 |
| 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 | El Dorado | Bart Jason | 1966-12-17 |
| Movie | The Doomsday Flight | Feldman | 1966-12-13 |
| Movie | The Satan Bug | Henchman Veretti | 1965-03-26 |
| Movie | The Slender Thread | Det. Judd Ridley | 1965-12-15 |
| Series | Slattery's People | Frank Radcliff | 1964-09-21 |
| Movie | Kid Galahad | Assistant District Attorney Frank Gerson (uncredited) | 1962-11-29 |
| Movie | The Murder Men | Dave Keller | 1961-01-01 |
| Movie | The New Girl | Kurt Harden | 1960-01-01 |
| Movie | The Defender (Studio One) | Juror (uncredited) | 1957-02-25 |
| Movie | The Night America Trembled | 3rd Actor (as Edward Asner) | 1957-09-09 |