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 Pixars 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.

All movies available from Ed Asner

Movies unavailable from Ed Asner

Mitzi & 100 Guys

Self

Movie 1975

Carl's Date

Carl (voice)

Movie 2023

Muppets Haunted Mansion

Ghost of Claude

Movie 2021

Getting Ed Laid

Ed Randall

Movie 2016

Skin Game

Plunkett

Movie 1971

Gus

Hank Cooper

Movie 1976

Fort Apache, the Bronx

Connolly

Movie 1981

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

Self

Movie 2004

Back Home Again

Peter Lionsbridge (voice)

Movie 2021

Being Mary Tyler Moore

Self (voice)

Movie 2023

A Man and His Prostate

Movie

The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion

Self

Movie 2002

Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger

Movie 1995

Daughter of the Mind

Saul Wiener

Movie 1969

Gigantic

Kirby Weathersby

Movie 2008

The Man Who Saved Christmas

Charles Gilbert

Movie 2002

Sir! No Sir!

Col. Heinl

Movie 2005

The Christmas Card

Luke Spelman

Movie 2006

Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving

Mr Wilson

Movie 2013

Moon Over Parador

Self

Movie 1988

Gypsy

Charles Thompson

Movie 1993

Sleeping Dogs Lie

Sheriff Delaney

Movie 2005

Scarlett

Movie 2021

Out of the Woods

Jack Green

Movie 2005

The Slender Thread

Det. Judd Ridley

Movie 1965

The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror

Himself

Movie 2005

Daniel

Jacob Ascher

Movie 1983

Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl

Self

Movie 2012

Hard Four

Golden Hands Segal

Movie 2007

Gunn

Lt. Jacoby

Movie 1967

The Venetian Affair

Frank Rosenfeld

Movie 1967

Tiger Within

Samuel

Movie 2020

Pope John XXIII

Angelo Roncalli

Movie 2002

Fanfare for a Death Scene

Pike

Movie 1964

A Different Approach

Movie 1978

Hopelessly in June

Rabbi

Movie 2011

The Long Way Home

George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice)

Movie 1997

Haunts of the Very Rich

Al Hunsicker

Movie 1972

Let Go

Artie

Movie 2011

The Todd Killings

Fred Reardon

Movie 1971

Our Friend, Martin

Mr. Harris (voice) (as Ed Asner)

Movie 1999

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

Harvey Metcalfe

Movie 1990

A Friendship in Vienna

Opah Oskar Reikman

Movie 1988

Island Prey

Jay Roth

Movie 2001

Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom

Movie

The Last Child

Barstow

Movie 1971

A Fargo Christmas Story

Popcorn Bud

Movie 2023

Down on the Waterfront

Movie 1994

Ed Asner's Oral History

Self - Interviewee

Movie

Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class

Narrator

Movie 2005

The Games Maker

Nicholas Drago

Movie 2014

Darlin' Clementine

Lucky Jake

Movie 1986

Anatomy of an Illness

Norman Cousins

Movie 1984

The Defender (Studio One)

Juror (uncredited)

Movie 1957

The Doomsday Flight

Feldman

Movie 1966

Kid Galahad

Assistant District Attorney Frank Gerson (uncredited)

Movie 1962

The Impersonation Murder Case

Dt. Ed Ames

Movie 1975

Payback

Jack Patkanis

Movie 1997

Generation Gap

Bart Cahill

Movie 2008

Gone in the Night

Det. John Waters

Movie 1996

The Triumph of William Henry Harrison

Movie 2010

The Murder Men

Dave Keller

Movie 1961

The Rich Have Their Own Photographers

Movie 2007

Twigs

Phil

Movie 1975

The Impostor

Barney West

Movie 1975

Heads

Ab Abbot

Movie 1994

J-24

Movie 1960

Becoming Dick

Davis Aldrich

Movie 2000

House on Greenapple Road

Sheriff Muntz

Movie 1970

Americas in Transition

Narrator

Movie 1982

The Desert of Forbidden Art

Voice

Movie 2011

Night of 100 Stars III

Self

Movie 1990

Night of 100 Stars II

Self

Movie 1985

The Old Man Who Cried Wolf

Dr. Morheim

Movie 1970

Autism and Cake

Fred

Movie 2012

The Story of Santa Claus

Santa Claus (voice)

Movie 1996

Above Suspicion

Thomas O'Claire

Movie 2000

Vital Signs

Matthew St James

Movie 1986

Everbrook (The Home)

Movie

They Call It Murder

Chief Otto Larkin

Movie 1971

The True Story of the Amityville Murders: From Homicide to Horror

Narrator

Movie

Dug's Special Mission

Carl Fredricksen (voice) (uncredited)

Movie 2009

Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII

Jean XXIII

Movie 2002

The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish

Huey P. Long

Movie 1977

Crab Orchard

Movie 2005

I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!

Himself

Movie 2015

Love Finds You in Valentine

Gabriel Morgan

Movie 2016

Super Sex

George

Movie 2016

The Real Story of Happy Birthday To You

Charlie (voice)

Movie 1991

Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union

Narrator (Voice)

Movie 2008

Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7

Himself

Movie 2011

The Marva Collins Story

Narrator (voice)

Movie 1981

Titanic: Sinking the Myths

Wilhelm Müller

Movie 2016

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

Self

Movie 2003

NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney

Self

Movie 1978

Identical

Yaakov Washington

Movie 2011

Hanged on a Twisted Cross

Narrator

Movie 1996

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Bruno

Movie 1995

From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks

Movie 2007

Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration

Self / Lou Grant (archive footage)

Movie 2015

American Road

Walt Whitman

Movie 2013

Joshua and the Battle of Jericho

Joshua (voice)

Movie 1986

Hey, I'm Alive

Ralph Flores

Movie 1975

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy

Self

Movie 1993

Joe's War

Harry

Movie 2017

Bring Him Home

Geza

Movie 2000

Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show

Himself

Movie 1991

The Cops Are Robbers

Movie 1990

Missing Brendan

George Calden

Movie 2004

Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas!

Santa

Movie 2017

And the Winner Isn't

Self

Movie 2017

Kate's Secret

Dr. Resnick

Movie 1986

Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure

Narrator (voice)

Movie 2003

Liberator

President Whitlock

Movie 2012

Frozen in Time

Grandpa (voice)

Movie 2014

I Know That Voice

Self

Movie 2014

Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man

Adult Walter (voice)

Movie 2017

Spider-Man: The Venom Saga

J. Jonah Jameson

Movie 2005

Saving Christmas

Rick

Movie 2017

Olympia

Himself

Movie 2018

Love Meet Hope

Mr. James

Movie 2016

The Garden Left Behind

Dr. Cleary

Movie 2020

Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock

J Jonah Jameson

Movie 2004

Not Another B Movie

Angry Investor

Movie 2011

Academy Boyz

Movie 1997

LA DA Story

Self (archive footage)

Movie 2018

Angels on Tap

Swifty

Movie 2018

The Gettysburg Address

Edward Everett (voice)

Movie 2025

Silent Motive

Sam

Movie 1991

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

Movie 2000

Donald Duck's 50th Birthday

Self

Movie 1984

A Case of Libel

Robert Sloane

Movie 1983

Cracked Up

Rev. Vincent Owens

Movie 1987

The Wrestler

Frank Bass

Movie 1974

Switched at Birth

Ted Marx

Movie 1991

Mary Jane: A Musical Potumentary

Corporate Manager

Movie 2016

The New Girl

Kurt Harden

Movie 1960

Altered Reality

Mike Wilson

Movie 2024

Earth and the American Dream

Reader (voice)

Movie 1992

M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters

Dr. Howard Arden

Movie 2020

In Vino

Charles

Movie 2019

Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts

Self

Movie 2015

Eva: A-7063

Narrator (voice)

Movie 2018

Honor Amongst Men

Pop Halmo

Movie 2018

In Search of Peace

David Ben Gurion (voice)

Movie 2001

The Commission

Capt. J.W. 'Will' Fritz

Movie 2003

SEVEN

Movie 2020

Sam Cade

Movie 1972

Good Men

Morty

Movie 2011

Bury Me in Armor

Dimitry George

Movie 2020

A Merry Murdoch Christmas

Kris Kringle

Movie 2015

Rain Beau's End

Gunny

Movie 2020

The Good Doctor

Various Roles

Movie 1978

The Night America Trembled

Movie 1957

The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It

Narrator

Movie 2002

Casting By

Self

Movie 2012

Love and Action in Chicago

Taylor

Movie 1999

Night of 100 Stars

Self

Movie 1982

Absolute Killers

Movie 2011

Blood

The Prophet

Movie

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

Self

Movie 2016

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

Dr. Robert Servatius (voice)

Movie 1997

Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary

Self (archive footage)

Movie

The Fall of 2008

Carl Fredricksen (Up promo)

Movie

Tv series unavailable from Ed Asner

Duckman

Tv 1994

Mad About You

Zigmund Klarik

Tv 1992

Arliss

Tv 1996

The Simpsons

Editor (voice)

Tv 1989

Burke's Law

Pablo Vasquez

Tv 1963

Cain's Hundred

Dave Keller

Tv 1961

Family Guy

Steve Bellows (voice)

Tv 1999

Rhoda

Tv 1974

The Dead Zone

Tv 2002

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

Tv 1966

The F.B.I.

John Carl Brock

Tv 1965

Gargoyles

Hudson (voice)

Tv 1994

Hawaii Five-O

August March

Tv 1968

Johnny Bravo

Tv 1997

The Wild Thornberrys

Frank Hunter (voice)

Tv 1998

Highway to Heaven

Tv 1984

CSI: NY

Abraham Klein

Tv 2004

Roseanne

Tv 1988

Naked City

Lt. Vincent Busti

Tv 1958

Dharma & Greg

Earl Tucker

Tv 1997

The Boondocks

Ed Wuncler (voice)

Tv 2005

The Mod Squad

Tv 1968

The Practice

Judge Matlin Pratt

Tv 1997

Medical Center

Tv 1969

E! True Hollywood Story

Tv 1996

Superman: The Animated Series

Granny Goodness (voice)

Tv 1996

The Fugitive

Roy Malinek

Tv 1963

The Holiday Movies That Made Us

Self

Tv 2020

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Mr. Weiner

Tv 2000

The Huntress

Tv 2000

The Closer

Tv 1998

Ironside

Tv 1967

ER

Dr. James McNulty

Tv 1994

Max Steel

Chuck Marshak (voice)

Tv 2000

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Warden Bragan

Tv 1955

Target: The Corruptors!

Tv 1961

Outlaws

Tv 1960

The Eleventh Hour

Tv 1962

Felony Squad

Tv 1966

Run for Your Life

Carl Cappi

Tv 1965

The White Shadow

Edward Asner (uncredited)

Tv 1978

Police Story

Tv 1973

The Fugitive

Sheriff Mayhew

Tv 1963

The Bronx Zoo

Tv 1987

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Tv 1963

Slattery's People

Frank Radcliff

Tv 1964

The Fugitive

Joe Bantam

Tv 1963

Profiles in Courage

Oliver E. Wells

Tv 1964

The Flip Wilson Show

Self

Tv 1970

Roots

Thomas Davies

Tv 1977

Fish Police

Tv 1992

The Rat Patrol

Captain Friedrich

Tv 1966

Mr. Novak

Harmon Stern

Tv 1963

Off the Rack

Sam Waltman

Tv 1985

CBS Playhouse

Tv 1966

The Lieutenant

Tv 1963

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Tv 1965

The Cleveland Show

Tv 2009

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Wilson White

Tv 2006

Dr. Kildare

Dr. Frank Williams

Tv 1961

The Outer Limits

Detective Sgt. Thomas Siroleo

Tv 1963

The Defenders

Tim Sellers

Tv 1961

The Defenders

Harry Obermayer

Tv 1961

The Emmy Awards

Self

Tv 1949

The Line

Tv 2009

The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

Self - Presenter

Tv 1987

Young Justice

Kent Nelson (voice)

Tv 2010

Maggie Winters

Tv 1998

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host

Tv 1975

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

Self

Tv 1973

Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays

Dr. Wasserman

Tv 2011

Chasing Life

April's grandfather

Tv 2014

Batman: The Animated Series

Roland Daggett (voice)

Tv 1992

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Martin Schultz

Tv 1999

The Practice

Judge Marcus Winnaker

Tv 1997

Intimate Portrait

Self

Tv 1993

The F.B.I.

Walter Gretzler

Tv 1965

The F.B.I.

Pete Zacharias

Tv 1965

The Mike Douglas Show

Self

Tv 1961

Hercules

Mentor (voice)

Tv 1998

Hearts Afire

George Lahti

Tv 1992

The Wild Wild West

Furman Crotty

Tv 1965

The Mike Douglas Show

Self - Co-Host

Tv 1961

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

Tv 1962

Reading Rainbow

Himself - Narrator (voice)

Tv 1983

Celebrity Family Feud

Self

Tv 2015

The Good Wife

Guy Redmayne

Tv 2009

Profiles in Courage

President Ulysses S. Grant

Tv 1964

Mr. Novak

Paul Berg

Tv 1963

Hawaii Five-0

August March

Tv 2010

The Name of the Game

Cesare Marino

Tv 1968

The Name of the Game

Vince Leonard

Tv 1968

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Self

Tv 2019

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Hoggish Greedly (voice)

Tv 1990

Ballmastrz: 9009

Rupert T. Digzfield (voice)

Tv 2018

Teen Titans Go!

Sgt. Mike Cosgrove (voice)

Tv 2013

Shatner's Raw Nerve

Self

Tv 2008

Up: Upisodes

Carl Fredricksen (voice)

Tv 2009

The Spectacular Spider-Man

Ben Parker (voice)

Tv 2008

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Fixer (voice)

Tv 2000

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

Von Romme (voice)

Tv 1996

Grace and Frankie

Howard Jay

Tv 2015

Spider-Man: The New Animated Series

Officer Barr (voice)

Tv 2003

Dinosaurs

Evil Georgie (voice)

Tv 1991

The Angry Beavers

Tv 1997

Roots

Capt. Thomas Davies

Tv 1977

The Invaders

Taugus

Tv 1967

The Invaders

Harry Ferguson

Tv 1967

More Tales of the City

Jack Lederer

Tv 1998

Bones

Rufus Tucker

Tv 2005

Modern Family

Herschel

Tv 2009

Tony Awards

Self - Presenter

Tv 1956

The Crazy Ones

Mr. Finger

Tv 2013

Stoney Burke

Kapp

Tv 1962

Dead to Me

Abe Rifkin

Tv 2019

The Sarah Silverman Program.

Commandant Von Reichenstein

Tv 2007

Dinah!

Self

Tv 1974

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Winner

Tv 1944

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee

Tv 1944

Politically Incorrect

Tv 1993

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Jack Stander

Tv 1962

Great Performances

Tv 1971

Golden Globe Awards

Self

Tv 1944