Edward Asner (15 November 1929 - 29 August 2021) was an American actor, best known for his role on the CBS sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its dramatic spin-off, Lou Grant.
He was the voice of Chief Abalone on Fish Police and Hoggish Greedily on The New Adventures of Captain Planet. He also played Adam in Hanna-Barbera's live-action TV movie The Gathering.
Biography[]
Ed Asner is a much loved 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 co-star Cloris Leachman, who has nine). In all, he has been nominated twenty times for an Emmy, with seventeen 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, who was then the president of the United States, for Reagan's Central American policy.
External Links[]
- Edward Asner at the Internet Movie Database
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