Home / Discover / People

Ed Asner

Edward Asner, commonly known as Ed Asner, was an American film, television, stage, and voice actor with over 400 film and television credits to his name, is best remembered for portraying Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series Lou Grant, making him one of the few television actors to portray the same character in both a comedy and a drama.

Aliases
  • Eddie Asner
  • Edward Asner
English Português - Portugal Português - Brasil ελληνική γλώσσα
Filmography

Up

2009
as Carl Fredricksen

Elf

2003
as Santa Claus

JFK

1991
as Guy Bannister

Home Alone 5: The Holiday Heist

2012
as Mr. Carson

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse

2010
as Granny Goodness (voice)

The Man Who Saved Christmas

2002
as Charles Gilbert

Christmas Is Here Again

2007
as Krad

Waiting in the Wings: The Musical

2014
as Jefferson

Christmas on the Bayou

2013
as Papa Noel

The Todd Killings

1971
as Fred Reardon

Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas!

2017
as Santa

Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7

2011
as Himself

M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters

2020
as Dr. Howard Arden

O' Christmas Tree

1999
as Nutcracker

Anatomy of an Illness

1984
as Norman Cousins

Gunn

1967
as Lt. Jacoby

Sir! No Sir!

2005
as Col. Heinl

Night Of 100 Stars III

1990
as Edward Asner

HIV, a Whole Different Story

2013
as Narrator

A StoryBots Christmas

2017
as Santa

Should've Been Romeo

2012
as Charlie

Americas in Transition

1982
as Narrator

All of My Heart: The Wedding

2018
as Vern

O'Hara's Wife

1982
as Bob O'Hara

The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay

2003
as Augie Sinclair

They Call It Murder

1971

A Case of Libel

1983
as Robert Sloane

Earth and the American Dream

1992
as Reader

The Old Man Who Cried Wolf

1970
as Dr. Morheim

All Star Superman

2011
as Perry White

El Dorado

1966
as Bart Jason

Fanfare For A Death Scene

1964

All of My Heart

2015
as Vern

Joshua and the Battle of Jericho

1986
as Joshua

The Satan Bug

1965
as Henchman Veretti

The Christmas Card

2006
as Luke Spelman

The Fumbleheads

1997
as Charlie Atwater

Frozen in Time

2014
as Grandpa (voice)

A Friendship in Vienna

1988
as Opah Oskar Reikman

Channels

2008
as Ed Packard

Hard Rain

1998
as Uncle Charlie

Joe's War

2017
as Harry

The Doomsday Flight

1966
as Feldman

Mary Jane: A Musical Potumentary

2016
as Corporate Manager

Night of 100 Stars

1982
as Edward Asner

Bring Him Home

2000
as Geza Horvath

The Nutcracker Sweet

2015
as Owl

Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts

2015

Pope John XXIII

2002
as Angelo Roncalli

The Demolition of Truth-Psychologists Examine 9/11

2016
as Edward Asner

Payback

1997
as Jack Patkanis

The Impersonation Murder Case

1975
as Det. Ed Ames

Change of Habit

1969
as Lt. Moretti

The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror

2005
as Narrator

Our Friend, Martin

1999
as Mr. Harris (voice) (as Ed Asner)

The Christmas Star

1986
as Horace McNickle

Down on the Waterfront

1993
as Bobby Gleason

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

2004
as Edward Asner

Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show

1991
as Edward Asner

Island Prey

2005
as Jay Roth

I Know That Voice

2014
as Himself

Behind the Fear

2016
as Narrator

All of My Heart: Inn Love

2017
as Vern

Yamasong: March of the Hollows

2017
as Elder Pyreez

Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas

2014
as Santa (voice)

Death Scream

1975
as Peter Singleton

The Parting Glass

2018

Dog's Best Friend

1997
as Jeep

Dug's Special Mission

2009
as Carl Fredricksen

Electile Dysfunction: Inside the Business of American Campaigns

2008
as Edward Asner

Haunts of the Very Rich

1972
as Al Hunsicker

Missing Brendan

2003
as George Calden

Daniel

1983
as Jacob Ascher

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

2012
as Edward Asner

Elephant Sighs

2012
as Leo

Gone in the Night

1996
as Det. John Waters

Donald Duck's 50th Birthday

1984
as Edward Asner

Muppets Haunted Mansion

2021
as Claude

Heads

1994
as Ab Abbot

I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!

2015
as Himself

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

2016
as Edward Asner

Second Chances

2013
as Chief Buddy

Gigantic

2008
as Kirby Weathersby

Love Finds You in Valentine

2016
as Gabriel Morgan

The Animal

2001
as Chief Wilson

Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class

2005
as Narrator

Silent Motive

1991
as Sam Van Drake

Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure

2003
as Narrator

Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration

2015
as Himself / Lou Grant

Hey, I'm Alive

1975
as Ralph Flores

Perfect Game

2000
as Coach Billy Hicks

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

1970
as Woody Garfield

Halls of Anger

1970
as Ernie McKay

Saving Christmas

2017
as Rick

Liberator

2012
as President Whitlock

The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish

1977
as Huey P. Long

Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure

2003
as Uncle Nick

Fort Apache, the Bronx

1981
as Connolly

In Vino

2017
as Charles

Generation Gap

2008
as Bart Cahill

Not Another B Movie

2015
as Angry Investor

Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man

2016
as Adult Walter (voice)

Titanic: Sinking the Myths

2017
as Wilhelm Müller

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy

1992
as Himself

The Gettysburg Address

2015
as Edward Everett

Snowden's Christmas

1999
as Big Daddy

Love Meet Hope

2016
as Mr. James

Daughter of the Mind

1969
as Saul Wiener

The Cops Are Robbers

1990
as Jake Quinn

Hard Four

2007
as Golden Hands Segal

Crab Orchard

2005

Gus

1976
as Hank Cooper

The Gathering

1977
as Adam

Out of the Woods

2005
as Jack Green

The Story of Santa Claus

1996
as Nicholas "Santa" Claus

Academy Boyz

1997
as Mr. Bright

The Girl Most Likely to...

1973
as Det. Ralph Varone

Sleeping Dogs Lie

2005
as Sheriff Delaney

Love and Action in Chicago

1999
as Taylor

Actor? A Documentary

2014
as Ed Asner

Angels on Tap

2018
as Swifty

Skin Game

1971
as Plunkett (runaway slave hunter)

Gypsy

1993
as Pop

The Slender Thread

1965
as Det. Judd Ridley

Super Sex

2016
as George

CarGo

2017
as Arthur (voice)

The Marva Collins Story

1981
as Narrator (voice)

Happily Ever After

1989
as Scowl the Owl (voice)

Hopelessly in June

2011
as Rabbi

The Venetian Affair

1966
as Frank Rosenfeld

The Year in Memoriam

2017
as Self (as Ed Asner)

Christmas Cottage

2008
as Sidney

Cracked Up

1987
as Rev. Vincent Owens

Foodfight!

2012
as Mr. Leonard

Too Big to Fail

2011
as Warren Buffett

Spider-Man: The Venom Saga

2005
as J. Jonah Jameson

And the Winner Isn't

2017
as Himself

The Bachelor

1999
as Sid Gluckman

The Desert of Forbidden Art

2011
as (voice)

The Last Child

1971
as Barstow

The Long Way Home

1997
as Voice

Let Go

2011
as Artie Satz

A Christmas Carol

1997
as Marley

Common Ground

2000
as Ira

The Games Maker

2014
as Nicholas Drago

The Gliksmans

2017
as Moshe

Olive, the Other Reindeer

1999
as Santa Claus (voice)

Eva: A-7063

2018
as Edward Asner

The Family Man

1979
as Eddie Madden

Above Suspicion

2000
as Thomas O'Claire

Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

1991
as Edward P. Mitchell

Kate's Secret

1986
as Dr. Resnick

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

1990
as Harvey Metcalfe

Producer

Movie A Vision of Murder: The Story of Donielle 2000