| rdfs:comment | - Edward "Ed" Asner (sometimes known as Eddie Asner) is an American actor.
- Asner performed the "Evil Georgie" voice in the Dinosaurs episode "Georgie Must Die." Other credits include voicing Jabba the Hutt in a radio version of Star Wars, playing Santa Claus in Elf, the father to Bette Midler's Rose in the made-for-TV version of Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim's Gypsy, and the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's Up. Asner has also hosted Saturday Night Live, and made appearances on the television series Dharma and Greg, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Night of 100 Stars, and Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales & Legends.
- Edward Asner (nacido el 15 de noviembre de 1929 en Kansas City, Missouri) es un actor estadounidense, ganador de un Premio Emmy y ex presidente del Sindicato de Actores, principalmente conocido por su papel como Lou Grant en The Mary Tyler Moore Show y en el spin-off de esa serie.
- Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929), born Eddie Asner and commonly known as Ed Asner, is an American film, television, stage, and voice actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant. More recently, he provided the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's award-winning animated film, Up.
- Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929), commonly known as Ed Asner, is an American actor, voice actor, and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, who is best known for his role as Lou Grant on the CBS sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and its spin-off series of the same name.
- Main article: Following his military service, Asner joined the Playwrights Theatre Company in Chicago, but left for New York City before members of that company regrouped as the Compass Players in the mid-1950s. He later made guest appearances with the successor to Compass, The Second City, and is considered part of The Second City extended family. In New York, Asner played Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum in the acclaimed Broadway revival of Threepenny Opera, and began to make inroads as a television actor. He was cast in a Country Music Television comedy pilot, Regular Joe.
- Ed Asner is a television legend, the winner of seven acting Emmy Awards (which puts him in a tie with Mary Tyler Moore, both ranking second to their Mary Tyler Moore (1970) co-star, Cloris Leachman, who has nine). In all, he has been nominated 20 times for an Emmy, with 17 nods for a Primetime Emmy and three for a Daytime award. All of his wins were for primetime.
- Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929) is a film and television actor and former President of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant. In the Marvel Animated Universe Asner is known as Spider-Man's J. Jonah Jameson, editor of The Daily Bugle and owner of J3. He may have gotten the role because of the similarities between Jameson and Grant. His prominent role in the earlier series got him the part of Officer Barr on Spider-Man: The New Animated Series and Ben Parker on The Spectacular Spider-Man.
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| abstract | - Main article: Following his military service, Asner joined the Playwrights Theatre Company in Chicago, but left for New York City before members of that company regrouped as the Compass Players in the mid-1950s. He later made guest appearances with the successor to Compass, The Second City, and is considered part of The Second City extended family. In New York, Asner played Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum in the acclaimed Broadway revival of Threepenny Opera, and began to make inroads as a television actor. Before he landed his role with Mary Tyler Moore, Asner guest-starred in such television series as the syndicated crime drama, Decoy, starring Beverly Garland, and the NBC western series, The Outlaws. He was also cast on Jack Lord's ABCdrama series, Stoney Burke and in the series finale of CBS's The Reporter, starring Harry Guardino. He also appeared onMr. Novak, Mission: Impossible, and The Invaders. Asner is best known for his character Lou Grant, who was first introduced on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. In 1977, after the series, Asner's character was given his own show, Lou Grant (1977-82). In contrast to the Mary Tyler Moore show, a thirty-minute comedy, the Lou Grant show was an hour-long award-winning drama about journalism. (For his role as Grant, Asner is the only actor to win the Emmy award for a sitcom and a drama for the same role.) Other TV series starring Asner in regular roles include Thunder Alley, The Bronx Zoo and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. He also portrayed art smuggler August March in an episode of the original Hawaii Five-O (1975) and reprised the role in the Hawaii Five-0 (2012) remake. Asner was acclaimed for his role in the ABC miniseries Roots, as Captain Davies, the morally conflicted captain of the "Lord Ligonier", the slave ship that broughtKunta Kinte to America. That role earned Asner an Emmy Award, as did the similarly dark role of Axel Jordache in the mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man (1976). In contrast, he played a former Pontiff in the lead role of Papa Giovanni: Ioannes XXIII (Pope John XXIII 2002), an Italian miniseries for RAI. Asner has also had an extensive voice acting career. He provided the voices for Joshua on Joshua and the Battle of Jericho (1986) for Hanna-Barbera, J. Jonah Jameson on the 1990s animated television series Spider-Man (1994-98); Hoggish Greedily on Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990-95); Hudson on Gargoyles (1994-96); Jabba the Hutt on the radio version of Star Wars; Master Vrook from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel; Roland Daggett on Batman: The Animated Series (1992-94); Cosgrove on Freakazoid!; Ed Wuncler on The Boondocks(2005-10); and Granny Goodness in various DC Comics animated series. Asner provided the voice of Carl Fredricksen in the Academy Award winning Pixar film Up (2009). He received great critical praise for the role, with one critic going so far as to suggest "They should create a new category for this year's Academy Award for Best Vocal Acting in an Animated Film and name Asner as the first recipient." He has appeared in a recurring segment, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, entitled "Does This Impress Ed Asner?" He was cast in a Country Music Television comedy pilot, Regular Joe. In 2001, Asner was the recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Asner has won more Emmy Awards for performing than any other male actor (seven, including five for the role of Lou Grant). In 2003, he was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. In July 2010, Asner completed recording sessions for Shattered Hopes: The True Story of the Amityville Murders; which is a forthcoming documentary on the 1974 DeFeo murders in Amityville, New York. Asner serves as the narrator for the film, which covers a forensic analysis of the murders, the trial in which 23-year-old DeFeo son Ronald DeFeo Jr., was convicted of the killings, and the subsequent "haunting" story which is revealed to be a hoax.Also in 2010 Asner played the title role in "FDR", a stage production about the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt he has subsequently continued to tour the play throughout the country. In January 2011, Asner took a supporting role on CMT's first original sitcom Working Class. He made an appearance in the independent comedy feature Not Another B Movie, and had a small but pivotal role as billionaire Warren Buffett in HBO's 2011 economy drama Too Big to Fail . Asner has also provided voice-over narration for many documentaries and films of social activism.
- Edward "Ed" Asner (sometimes known as Eddie Asner) is an American actor.
- Asner performed the "Evil Georgie" voice in the Dinosaurs episode "Georgie Must Die." Other credits include voicing Jabba the Hutt in a radio version of Star Wars, playing Santa Claus in Elf, the father to Bette Midler's Rose in the made-for-TV version of Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim's Gypsy, and the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's Up. Asner has also hosted Saturday Night Live, and made appearances on the television series Dharma and Greg, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Night of 100 Stars, and Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales & Legends.
- Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929) is a film and television actor and former President of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant. In the Marvel Animated Universe Asner is known as Spider-Man's J. Jonah Jameson, editor of The Daily Bugle and owner of J3. He may have gotten the role because of the similarities between Jameson and Grant. His prominent role in the earlier series got him the part of Officer Barr on Spider-Man: The New Animated Series and Ben Parker on The Spectacular Spider-Man. An avid comic book fan, Asner is a member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a free speech organization that's dedicated to protecting comic book creators and retailers from prosecutions based on content. Professionally, he prefers Edward Asner even though he is more popularly known as Ed Asner.
- Edward Asner (nacido el 15 de noviembre de 1929 en Kansas City, Missouri) es un actor estadounidense, ganador de un Premio Emmy y ex presidente del Sindicato de Actores, principalmente conocido por su papel como Lou Grant en The Mary Tyler Moore Show y en el spin-off de esa serie.
- Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929), commonly known as Ed Asner, is an American actor, voice actor, and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, who is best known for his role as Lou Grant on the CBS sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and its spin-off series of the same name. He voiced Carl Fredricksen in the 2009 Disney/Pixar film Up. He also played Hank Cooper in Gus, Horace McNickle in the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color episode "The Christmas Star", Grumps in Bonkers, Georgie's "evil voice" in Dinosaurs, Hudson, Jack Danforth and Burbank in Gargoyles, Thaddeus T. Third V in Recess, Mentor in Hercules: The Animated Series, Fixer in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Napoleon in W.I.T.C.H., and Mr. Big in Teamo Supremo.
- Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929), born Eddie Asner and commonly known as Ed Asner, is an American film, television, stage, and voice actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant. More recently, he provided the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's award-winning animated film, Up.
- Ed Asner is a television legend, the winner of seven acting Emmy Awards (which puts him in a tie with Mary Tyler Moore, both ranking second to their Mary Tyler Moore (1970) co-star, Cloris Leachman, who has nine). In all, he has been nominated 20 times for an Emmy, with 17 nods for a Primetime Emmy and three for a Daytime award. All of his wins were for primetime. As well as being one of the most outstanding and most respected actors of his generation, equally adept at comedy and at drama, Asner also made a name for himself as a trade unionist and a political activist. He served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild, from 1981 to 1985, during which he criticized former SAG President Ronald Reagan, then the president of a greater concern, for Reagan's Central American policy.
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