Ed Asner
Acting
Born November 15, 1929 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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.
Films (235)
The Gettysburg Address
2025
Altered Reality
2024
A Fargo Christmas Story
2023
Carl's Date
2023
Being Mary Tyler Moore
2023
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2022
Scarlett
2021
Back Home Again
2021
Muppets Haunted Mansion
2021
Senior Entourage
2021
Captain Daddy
2021
Blood
2021
Soul
2020
Tiger Within
2020
Bury Me in Armor
2020
SEVEN
2020
Rain Beau's End
2020
The Garden Left Behind
2020
M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters
2020
In Vino
2019
Faith, Hope & Love
2019
Olympia
2018
All of My Heart: The Wedding
2018
Honor Amongst Men
2018
Angels on Tap
2018
The Parting Glass
2018
Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting
2018
Ed Asner's Oral History
2018
Eva: A-7063
2018
LA DA Story
2018
And the Winner Isn't
2017
A StoryBots Christmas
2017
Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas!
2017
Saving Christmas
2017
The Gliksmans
2017
All of My Heart: Inn Love
2017
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
2017
CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels!
2017
Joe's War
2017
Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man
2017
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
2016
Titanic: Sinking the Myths
2016
Mary Jane: A Musical Potumentary
2016
Super Sex
2016
Getting Ed Laid
2016
Love Meet Hope
2016
Love Finds You in Valentine
2016
Behind the Fear
2016
A Merry Murdoch Christmas
2015
Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts
2015
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
2015
The Nutcracker Sweet
2015
I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!
2015
All of My Heart
2015
Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas
2014
Frozen in Time
2014
The Games Maker
2014
Waiting in the Wings: The Musical
2014
Audrey
2014
I Know That Voice
2014
Christmas on the Bayou
2013
Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving
2013
Axel: The Biggest Little Hero
2013
American Road
2013
Second Chances
2013
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
2012
Casting By
2012
Autism and Cake
2012
Liberator
2012
Foodfight!
2012
Elephant Sighs
2012
Should've Been Romeo
2012
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
2012
The True Story of the Amityville Murders: From Homicide to Horror
2011
Identical
2011
Too Big to Fail
2011
Let Go
2011
Absolute Killers
2011
Good Men
2011
Not Another B Movie
2011
Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7
2011
Hopelessly in June
2011
The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011
All Star Superman
2011
The Triumph of William Henry Harrison
2010
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
2010
Christmas Dreams
2009
Dug's Special Mission
2009
Up
2009
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
2009
Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union
2008
Generation Gap
2008
Christmas Cottage
2008
Gigantic
2008
Electile Dysfunction: Inside the Business of American Campaigns
2008
Channels
2008
Hard Four
2007
Christmas Is Here Again
2007
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
2007
The Rich Have Their Own Photographers
2007
The Christmas Card
2006
Crab Orchard
2005
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
2005
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror
2005
Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
2005
Sir! No Sir!
2005
Out of the Woods
2005
Sleeping Dogs Lie
2005
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
Missing Brendan
2004
Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock
2004
Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure
2003
Elf
2003
The Commission
2003
Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure
2003
The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay
2003
Daredevil vs. Spider-Man
2003
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
The Man Who Saved Christmas
2002
The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion
2002
Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown
2002
Remembering Roots
2002
The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It
2002
Pope John XXIII
2002
Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII
2002
Gahan Wilson's The Kid
2001
In Search of Peace
2001
The Animal
2001
Island Prey
2001
Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom
2000
Becoming Dick
2000
Above Suspicion
2000
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
Perfect Game
2000
Common Ground
2000
Bring Him Home
2000
Snowden's Christmas
1999
Olive, the Other Reindeer
1999
The Bachelor
1999
Love and Action in Chicago
1999
The Sissy Duckling
1999
Our Friend, Martin
1999
O' Christmas Tree
1999
Hard Rain
1998
A Christmas Carol
1997
Academy Boyz
1997
The Long Way Home
1997
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
Dog's Best Friend
1997
Payback
1997
The Fumbleheads
1997
Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade
1996
The Story of Santa Claus
1996
Hanged on a Twisted Cross
1996
Gone in the Night
1996
Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger
1995
Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken
1995
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
1995
Down on the Waterfront
1994
Heads
1994
Gypsy
1993
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
1993
Earth and the American Dream
1992
JFK
1991
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
1991
Silent Motive
1991
Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show
1991
The Real Story of Happy Birthday To You
1991
The Cops Are Robbers
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
1990
Happily Ever After
1989
Moon Over Parador
1988
A Friendship in Vienna
1988
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
1987
Cracked Up
1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
The Christmas Star
1986
Kate's Secret
1986
Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
1986
Vital Signs
1986
Darlin' Clementine
1986
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
1984
Anatomy of an Illness
1984
A Case of Libel
1983
Daniel
1983
Koyaanisqatsi
1983
Americas in Transition
1982
Night of 100 Stars
1982
O'Hara's Wife
1982
The Marva Collins Story
1981
A Small Killing
1981
Fort Apache, the Bronx
1981
The Family Man
1979
Mickey's 50
1978
The Good Doctor
1978
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
1978
A Different Approach
1978
The Gathering
1977
The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish
1977
Gus
1976
Hey, I'm Alive
1975
Death Scream
1975
The Impersonation Murder Case
1975
Mitzi & 100 Guys
1975
The Impostor
1975
Twigs
1975
The Wrestler
1974
The Girl Most Likely To...
1973
Haunts of the Very Rich
1972
Sam Cade
1972
They Call It Murder
1971
The Todd Killings
1971
The Last Child
1971
Skin Game
1971
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
1970
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970
Halls of Anger
1970
House on Greenapple Road
1970
Daughter of the Mind
1969
Change of Habit
1969
Gunn
1967
The Venetian Affair
1967
El Dorado
1966
The Doomsday Flight
1966
The Slender Thread
1965
The Satan Bug
1965
Fanfare for a Death Scene
1964
Kid Galahad
1962
The Murder Men
1961
J-24
1960
The New Girl
1960
The Night America Trembled
1957
The Defender (Studio One)
1957