Eddie Asner is an American actor, voice artist, and former president of the Screen Actors Guild. He is best known for his role as Lou Grant on 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 animated film Up. In early 2011, he returned to television as butcher Hank Greziak in Working Class, the first original sitcom on cable channel CMT.
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Eddie Asner is an American actor, voice artist, and former president of the Screen Actors Guild. He is best known for his role as Lou Grant on 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 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. In 2020 he guest starred in an episode of Modern Family and had a recurring role as James Staghorne Sr. on Briarpatch. Asner was born Eddie Asner on November 15, 1929, in Kansas City, Missouri. He was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family and given the Hebrew name Yitzhak. He worked on the assembly line for General Motors. He served with the U.S. Army Signal Corps and appeared in plays that toured Army camps in Europe. He helped found 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 frequent guest appearances with the successor to Compass, The Second City. He also appeared on Mr. Novak, Mission: Impossible, The Outer Limits and The Invaders. He made his film debut in 1962, in the Elvis Presley vehicle Kid Galahad. He appeared in Face of a Hero alongside Jack Lemmon in 1960, and began to make inroads as a television actor, having made his TV debut in 1957 on Studio One.
In 1963 he appeared as George Johnson on The Virginian in the episode “Echo Another Day”. Asner appeared as Detective Sgt. Thomas Siroleo in the 1963 episode of The Outer limits titled “It Crawled Out of the Woodwork” and the 1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode “The Exile” He also played Guy Redmayne, a homophobic billionaire who supports Alicia Florrick’s campaign in the sixth season of The Good Wife. He has played Santa Claus in several films, notably in 2003’s Elf. He played John Wayne’s adversary Bart Jason in the 1966 Western El Dorado. He starred in Michael, Tuesdays and Thursdays, on CBC Television and appeared on The Glades. His other Emmys were for performances in two of the most significant mini-television series of the 1970s: Rich Man, Poor Man and Roots. In 1977 he was given his own show, Lou Grant, which was a 30-minute award-winning comedy about newspaper journalism. In addition he made appearances on two other shows, Dead Man’s Gun and The Bronx Zoo. He won seven Primetime Emmy Awards, having won seven – five for portraying Lou Grant. He was also a member of the Board of Governors of the Writers Guild of America, Inc. and served as its president from 1987-1989. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
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