Ed Asner

Known for: Acting
Born: November 15, 1929, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Died: August 29, 2021
Movies: 240

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.

Upcoming Ed Asner Movies

Unplugged

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

8.0

2009

6.7

Elf

2003

7.6

JFK

1991

5.2

The Animal

2001

5.9

Hard Rain

1998

7.9

Koyaanisqatsi

1983

7.2

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse

2010

7.4

El Dorado

1966

6.9

All Star Superman

2011

5.1

Home Alone: The Holiday Heist

2012

Filmography

2025	The Gettysburg Address	Edward Everett (voice)
2024	An SNL Thanksgiving	(archive footage)
2024	Altered Reality	Mike Wilson
2023	A Fargo Christmas Story	Popcorn Bud
2023	Carl's Date	Carl (voice)
2023	Being Mary Tyler Moore	Self (voice)
2023	Commitment to Life	Self (archive footage)
2022	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules	Grandpa (voice)
2021	Scarlett	Lou
2021	Back Home Again	Peter Lionsbridge (voice)
2021	Muppets Haunted Mansion	Ghost of Claude
2021	Senior Entourage	Ed
2021	A Man and His Prostate
2021	Captain Daddy	Grampa (voice)
2021	Blood	The Prophet
2020	Tiger Within	Samuel
2020	Bury Me in Armor	Dimitry George
2020	SEVEN
2020	Rain Beau's End	Gunny
2020	The Garden Left Behind	Dr. Cleary
2020	M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters	Dr. Howard Arden
2019	In Vino	Charles
2019	Faith, Hope & Love	Harry Karetas
2018	Olympia	Self
2018	All of My Heart: The Wedding	Vern
2018	Honor Amongst Men	Pop Halmo
2018	Angels on Tap	Swifty
2018	The Parting Glass	Tommy
2018	Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting	Jefferson
2018	Ed Asner's Oral History	Self - Interviewee
2018	Eva: A-7063	Narrator (voice)
2018	LA DA Story	Self (archive footage)
2017	And the Winner Isn't	Self
2017	A StoryBots Christmas	Santa
2017	Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas!	Santa
2017	Saving Christmas	Rick
2017	The Gliksmans	Moshe
2017	All of My Heart: Inn Love	Vern
2017	Yamasong: March of the Hollows	Elder Pyreez (voice)
2017	CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels!	Arthur (voice)
2017	Joe's War	Harry
2017	Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man	Adult Walter (voice)
2016	The Best Democracy Money Can Buy	Self
2016	Titanic: Sinking the Myths	Wilhelm Müller
2016	Mary Jane: A Musical Potumentary	Corporate Manager
2016	Super Sex	George
2016	Getting Ed Laid	Ed Randall
2016	Love Meet Hope	Mr. James
2016	Love Finds You in Valentine	Gabriel Morgan
2016	Behind the Fear	Narrator (voice)
2015	A Merry Murdoch Christmas	Kris Kringle
2015	Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts	Self
2015	Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration	Self / Lou Grant (archive footage)
2015	The Nutcracker Sweet	Owl (voice)
2015	I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!	Himself
2015	All of My Heart	Vern
2014	Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas	Santa (voice)
2014	Frozen in Time	Grandpa (voice)
2014	The Games Maker	Nicholas Drago
2014	Audrey	Walt
2014	I Know That Voice	Self
2013	Christmas on the Bayou	Papa Noel
2013	Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving	Mr Wilson
2013	Axel: The Biggest Little Hero	Bonta / Narrator (voice)
2013	American Road	Walt Whitman
2013	Second Chances	Chief Buddy
2012	Home Alone: The Holiday Heist	Mr. Carson
2012	Casting By	Self
2012	Autism and Cake	Fred
2012	Liberator	President Whitlock
2012	Foodfight!	Mr. Leonard (voice)
2012	Elephant Sighs	Leo
2012	Should've Been Romeo	Charlie
2012	Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl	Self
2011	The True Story of the Amityville Murders: From Homicide to Horror	Narrator
2011	Identical	Yaakov Washington
2011	Too Big to Fail	Warren Buffett
2011	Let Go	Artie
2011	Absolute Killers
2011	Good Men	Morty
2011	Not Another B Movie	Angry Investor
2011	Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7	Himself
2011	Hopelessly in June	Rabbi
2011	The Desert of Forbidden Art	Voice
2011	All Star Superman	Perry White (voice)
2010	The Triumph of William Henry Harrison
2010	Superman/Batman: Apocalypse	Granny Goodness (voice)
2009	Christmas Dreams	Jerry
2009	Dug's Special Mission	Carl Fredricksen (voice) (uncredited)
2009	Up	Carl Fredricksen (voice)
2009	American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist	Self
2008	Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union	Narrator (Voice)
2008	Generation Gap	Bart Cahill
2008	Christmas Cottage	Sidney
2008	Gigantic	Kirby Weathersby
2008	Electile Dysfunction: Inside the Business of American Campaigns	Self
2008	Channels	Ed Packard
2007	Hard Four	Golden Hands Segal
2007	Christmas Is Here Again	Krad (voice)
2007	From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
2007	The Rich Have Their Own Photographers
2006	The Christmas Card	Luke Spelman
2005	Crab Orchard
2005	Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class	Narrator
2005	The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror	Himself
2005	Spider-Man: The Venom Saga	J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
2005	Sir! No Sir!	Col. Heinl
2005	Out of the Woods	Jack Green
2005	Sleeping Dogs Lie	Sheriff Delaney
2004	Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde	Self
2004	Elf: Film School for Kids	Self
2004	Elf: Tag Along with Will Ferrell	Self
2004	Elf: How they Made the North Pole	Self
2004	Elf: That's a Wrap	Self
2004	Missing Brendan	George Calden
2004	Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock	J Jonah Jameson (voice)
2003	Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure	Uncle Nick
2003	Elf	Santa
2003	The Commission	Capt. J.W. 'Will' Fritz
2003	Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure	Narrator (voice)
2003	The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay	Augie Sinclair
2003	Daredevil vs. Spider-Man	J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
2003	The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series	Self
2002	The Man Who Saved Christmas	Charles Gilbert
2002	Spider-Man: The Return of the Green Goblin	J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
2002	The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion	Self
2002	Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown	J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
2002	Remembering Roots	Self
2002	The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It	Narrator
2002	Pope John XXIII	Angelo Roncalli
2001	Gahan Wilson's The Kid	Dead Cat
2001	In Search of Peace	David Ben Gurion (voice)
2001	The Animal	Chief Wilson
2001	Island Prey	Jay Roth
2000	Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom	Self
2000	Becoming Dick	Davis Aldrich
2000	Above Suspicion	Thomas O'Claire
2000	The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000	Perfect Game	Billy Hicks
2000	Common Ground	Ira
2000	Bring Him Home	Geza
1999	Snowden's Christmas	Big Daddy (voice)
1999	Olive, the Other Reindeer	Santa Claus (voice)
1999	The Bachelor	Gluckman
1999	Love and Action in Chicago	Taylor
1999	The Sissy Duckling	Father Duck (voice)
1999	Our Friend, Martin	Mr. Harris (voice)
1999	O' Christmas Tree	Nutcracker (voice)
1998	Hard Rain	Uncle Charlie
1997	Academy Boyz
1997	A Christmas Carol	Marley (voice)
1997	The Long Way Home	George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice)
1997	The Trial of Adolf Eichmann	Dr. Robert Servatius (voice)
1997	Dog's Best Friend	Jeep, the Sheep Dog (voice)
1997	Payback	Jack Patkanis
1997	The Fumbleheads	Charlie Atwater
1996	Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade	Self
1996	The Story of Santa Claus	Santa Claus (voice)
1996	Hanged on a Twisted Cross	Narrator
1996	Gone in the Night	Det. John Waters
1995	Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger
1995	Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken	Hudson (voice)
1995	Goldilocks and the Three Bears	Bruno
1994	Gypsy	Charles Thompson
1994	Down on the Waterfront
1994	Heads	Ab Abbot
1993	Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy	Self
1992	Earth and the American Dream	Reader (voice)
1991	JFK	Guy Bannister
1991	Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus	Edward P. Mitchell
1991	Silent Motive	Sam
1991	Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show	Himself
1991	The Real Story of Happy Birthday To You	Charlie (voice)
1990	Good Cops, Bad Cops
1990	Night of 100 Stars III	Self
1990	Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less	Harvey Metcalfe
1989	Happily Ever After	Scowl the Owl (voice)
1988	Moon Over Parador	Self
1988	A Friendship in Vienna	Opah Oskar Reikman
1987	Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night	Scalawag (voice)
1987	Cracked Up	Rev. Vincent Owens
1987	Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood	Self
1986	The Christmas Star	Horace McNickle
1986	Kate's Secret	Dr. Resnick
1986	Joshua and the Battle of Jericho	Joshua (voice)
1986	Vital Signs	Matthew St James
1986	Darlin' Clementine	Lucky Jake
1985	Night of 100 Stars II	Self
1984	Donald Duck's 50th Birthday	Self
1984	Anatomy of an Illness	Norman Cousins
1983	A Case of Libel	Robert Sloane
1983	Daniel	Jacob Ascher
1983	Koyaanisqatsi	Self (archive footage)
1982	Americas in Transition	Narrator
1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self
1982	O'Hara's Wife	Bob O'Hara
1981	The Marva Collins Story	Narrator (voice)
1981	A Small Killing	Simon Shaber
1981	Fort Apache, the Bronx	Connolly
1979	The Family Man	Eddie Madden
1978	Mickey's 50	Self
1978	The Good Doctor	Various Roles
1978	NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney	Self
1978	A Different Approach
1977	The Gathering	Adam
1977	The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish	Huey P. Long
1976	Gus	Hank Cooper
1975	Hey, I'm Alive	Ralph Flores
1975	Death Scream	Peter Singleton
1975	The Impersonation Murder Case	Dt. Ed Ames
1975	Mitzi & 100 Guys	Self
1975	The Impostor	Barney West
1975	Twigs	Phil
1974	The Wrestler	Frank Bass
1973	The Girl Most Likely To...	Det. Ralph Varone
1972	Haunts of the Very Rich	Al Hunsicker
1972	Sam Cade
1971	They Call It Murder	Chief Otto Larkin
1971	The Todd Killings	Fred Reardon
1971	The Last Child	Barstow
1971	Skin Game	Plunkett
1970	The Old Man Who Cried Wolf	Dr. Morheim
1970	They Call Me Mister Tibbs!	Woody Garfield
1970	Halls of Anger	Ernie McKay
1970	House on Greenapple Road	Sheriff Muntz
1969	Daughter of the Mind	Saul Wiener
1969	Change of Habit	Lt. Moretti
1967	Gunn	Lt. Jacoby
1966	El Dorado	Bart Jason
1966	The Doomsday Flight	Feldman
1966	The Venetian Affair	Frank Rosenfeld
1965	The Slender Thread	Det. Judd Ridley
1965	The Satan Bug	Henchman Veretti
1964	Fanfare for a Death Scene	Pike
1962	Kid Galahad	Assistant District Attorney Frank Gerson (uncredited)
1961	The Murder Men	Dave Keller
1960	J-24
1960	The New Girl	Kurt Harden
1957	The Night America Trembled	3rd Actor (as Edward Asner)
1957	The Defender (Studio One)	Juror (uncredited)

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