Ed Asner
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.
392 acting credits
Acting · 392
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Simpsons
1989
Family Guy
1999
Bones
2005
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
American Dad!
2005
Modern Family
2009
Hawaii Five-0
2010
The X-Files
1993
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Regular Show
2010
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Good Wife
2009
ER
1994
CSI: NY
2004
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
King of the Hill
1997
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Teen Titans Go!
2013
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Middle
2009
Young Justice
2010
Batman: The Animated Series
1992
The Fugitive
1963
Ironside
1967
Mom
2013
The Practice
1997
Cobra Kai
2018
Mission: Impossible
1966
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Great Performances
1971
MacGyver
2016
Mad About You
1992
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
The Virginian
1962
Dr. Kildare
1961
Touched by an Angel
1994
Tony Awards
1956
Naked City
1958
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Johnny Bravo
1997
The F.B.I.
1965
Dinosaurs
1991
Animaniacs
1993
The Dead Zone
2002
Grace and Frankie
2015
The Untouchables
1959
Superman: The Animated Series
1996
The Wild Wild West
1965
Highway to Heaven
1984
Medical Center
1969
Burke's Law
1963
Hot in Cleveland
2010
Route 66
1960
Hercules
1998
Run for Your Life
1965
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
Spider-Man
1994
The Outer Limits
1963
Studio One
1948
Gargoyles
1994
Doom Patrol
2019
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970
The Defenders
1961
The Name of the Game
1968
The Boondocks
2005
Justice League Unlimited
2004
Duckman
1994
The Cleveland Show
2009
The Invaders
1967
Lou Grant
1977
Intimate Portrait
1993
The Oscars
1953
Match Game
1973
Gunsmoke
1955
Celebrity Family Feud
2015
Arli$$
1996
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
2000
Up
2009
Omnibus
1952
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990
Rhoda
1974
The Angry Beavers
1997
Dinah!
1974
Reading Rainbow
1983
Dharma & Greg
1997
The Spectacular Spider-Man
2008
The Sarah Silverman Program.
2007
The Mod Squad
1968
Roots
1977
Felony Squad
1966
Dead to Me
2019
Police Story
1973
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
1996
Cain's Hundred
1961
Freakazoid!
1995
The Magic School Bus
1994
Outlaws
1960
The White Shadow
1978
Mr. Novak
1963
Chasing Life
2014
Tall Tales & Legends
1985
Decoy
1957
Central Park
2020
The Flip Wilson Show
1970
Men at Work
2012
Hearts Afire
1992
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
2003
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973
Sam Benedict
1962
Stoney Burke
1962
The Lieutenant
1963
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
The Crazy Ones
2013
The Huntress
2000
El Dorado
1966
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966
CBS Playhouse
1966
The Rat Patrol
1966
The Eleventh Hour
1962
Elf
2003
Max Steel
2000
Profiles in Courage
1964
Shatner's Raw Nerve
2008
Roseanne
1988
Rich Man, Poor Man
1976
The Bronx Zoo
1987
JFK
1991
Carl's Date
2023
Bruno the Kid
1996
The Emmy Awards
1949
Dumb and Dumber
1995
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1965
Center of the Universe
2004
Slattery's People
1964
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
2020
The Premise
2021
Dug Days
2021
Thunder Alley
1994
Andy Barker, P.I.
2007
The Trials of Rosie O'Neill
1990
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2022
Fish Police
1992
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
2012
Hard Rain
1998
The Animal
2001
Politically Incorrect
1993
More Tales of the City
1998
The Line
2009
Maggie Winters
1998
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Working Class
2011
Koyaanisqatsi
1983
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
1987
Cruel Doubt
1992
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Tender Is the Night
1985
Ballmastrz: 9009
2018
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
2010
Night of 100 Stars
1982
The Closer
1998
Too Big to Fail
2011
The Bachelor
1999
The Gettysburg Address
2025
All Star Superman
2011
Off the Rack
1985
Happily Ever After
1989
Fort Apache, the Bronx
1981
The Satan Bug
1965
Muppets Haunted Mansion
2021
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
2012
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
1993
Our Friend, Martin
1999
And the Winner Isn't
2017
Love Finds You in Valentine
2016
Super Sex
2016
Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure
2003
Daredevil vs. Spider-Man
2003
Dug's Special Mission
2009
Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas
2014
Pope John XXIII
2002
Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays
2011
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII
2002
Foodfight!
2012
Gigantic
2008
Switched at Birth
1991
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
2015
Gus
1976
Casting By
2012
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Gypsy
1994
Skin Game
1971
I Know That Voice
2014
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
Mickey's 50
1978
Daniel
1983
Common Ground
2000
Christmas Cottage
2008
Becoming Dick
2000
A Merry Murdoch Christmas
2015
Let Go
2011
Being Mary Tyler Moore
2023
Olive, the Other Reindeer
1999
All of My Heart: The Wedding
2018
The Slender Thread
1965
All of My Heart: Inn Love
2017
Above Suspicion
2000
Kid Galahad
1962
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
1987
Gunn
1967
Moon Over Parador
1988
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
1991
The Girl Most Likely To...
1973
The Christmas Star
1986
Christmas Is Here Again
2007
Second Chances
2013
Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown
2002
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
1978
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
2017
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
1990
The Games Maker
2014
Change of Habit
1969
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
Hard Four
2007
Faith, Hope & Love
2019
Commitment to Life
2023
Death Scream
1975
A Different Approach
1978
All of My Heart
2015
Fanfare for a Death Scene
1964
The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay
2003
Generation Gap
2008
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken
1995
A Christmas Carol
1997
Scarlett
2021
The Doomsday Flight
1966
Back Home Again
2021
Good Cops, Bad Cops
1990
Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
1986
The Last Child
1971
Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show
1991
Perfect Game
2000
The Sissy Duckling
1999
Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger
1995
Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
1984
Daughter of the Mind
1969
The Long Way Home
1997
The Parting Glass
2018
In Vino
2019
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
2005
Hey, I'm Alive
1975
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011
Gahan Wilson's The Kid
2001
Axel: The Biggest Little Hero
2013
In Search of Peace
2001
The Marva Collins Story
1981
The Man Who Saved Christmas
2002
Christmas on the Bayou
2013
House on Greenapple Road
1970
Mitzi & 100 Guys
1975
A Friendship in Vienna
1988
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
1995
Senior Entourage
2021
Olympia
2018
Missing Brendan
2004
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas!
2017
Payback
1997
Rain Beau's End
2020
SEVEN
2020
CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels!
2017
Kate's Secret
1986
Down on the Waterfront
1994
The Commission
2003
Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
2005
Unplugged
—
Gone in the Night
1996
The Night America Trembled
1957
The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion
2002
Silent Motive
1991
Haunts of the Very Rich
1972
M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters
2020
The Nutcracker Sweet
2015
The Todd Killings
1971
Dog's Best Friend
1997
Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man
2017
Love and Action in Chicago
1999
LA DA Story
2018
The Venetian Affair
1966
The Christmas Card
2006
Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union
2008
Should've Been Romeo
2012
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
1970
The Gathering
1977
Darlin' Clementine
1986
Audrey
2014
The Defender (Studio One)
1957
The Good Doctor
1978
Saving Christmas
2017
O'Hara's Wife
1982
Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting
2018
The Story of Santa Claus
1996
Sir! No Sir!
2005
Out of the Woods
2005
Anatomy of an Illness
1984
The Impersonation Murder Case
1975
Absolute Killers
2011
A StoryBots Christmas
2017
The Garden Left Behind
2020
Halls of Anger
1970
Frozen in Time
2014
Vital Signs
1986
The Wrestler
1974
They Call It Murder
1971
I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!
2015
Joe's War
2017
Cracked Up
1987
Up: Upisodes
2009
Altered Reality
2024
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
2016
A Small Killing
1981
Identical
2011
Titanic: Sinking the Myths
2016
The Fumbleheads
1997
Sam Cade
1972
Snowden's Christmas
1999
The Impostor
1975
Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving
2013
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
2007
The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish
1977
Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade
1996
The Family Man
1979
The Murder Men
1961
Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts
2015
Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary
—
A Fargo Christmas Story
2023
O' Christmas Tree
1999
Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock
2004
Bring Him Home
2000
Hopelessly in June
2011
Heads
1994
Honor Amongst Men
2018
Elephant Sighs
2012
Academy Boyz
1997
A Case of Libel
1983
Electile Dysfunction: Inside the Business of American Campaigns
2008
Not Another B Movie
2011
Liberator
2012
Twigs
1975
Island Prey
2001
Eva: A-7063
2018
Getting Ed Laid
2016
The Real Story of Happy Birthday To You
1991
Mary Jane: A Musical Potumentary
2016
Channels
2008
Remembering Roots
2002
Love Meet Hope
2016
Hanged on a Twisted Cross
1996
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror
2005
Captain Daddy
2021
Blood
2021
Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom
2000
Autism and Cake
2012
Christmas Dreams
2009
The True Story of the Amityville Murders: From Homicide to Horror
2011
Bury Me in Armor
2020
Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure
2003
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
2009
The Triumph of William Henry Harrison
2010
Angels on Tap
2018
Sleeping Dogs Lie
2005
The New Girl
1960
Tiger Within
2020
The Gliksmans
2017
Good Men
2011
Americas in Transition
1982
Crab Orchard
2005
Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7
2011
American Road
2013
The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It
2002
The Rich Have Their Own Photographers
2007
Ed Asner's Oral History
2018
A Man and His Prostate
—
Behind the Fear
2016
J-24
1960