Edward Asner

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Edward Asner (born 1929), or as he's popularly known, Ed Asner, is an Emmy award winner who has been acting since 1957. He's perhaps best known for his character Lou Grant who debuted in The Mary Tyler Moore Show. After the shows run, Asner's character would be given his own show, Lou Grant.

Asner started his voice acting career in 1981, but his roles in voice acting really took off in 1992 when he voiced Hoggish Greedly in Captain Planet and the Planeteers. He would go on from that to role to voice many beloved, if somewhat gruff characters, as well as a plethora of one-shot characters for television, movies, and video games, his most famous recent role probably being Carl Frederickson from Up.

Edward Asner has performed in the following roles:

Live Action TV

• Curb Your Enthusiasm: Mr. Weiner
• The Dead Zone: Marty Bracknell
• Dharma and Greg: Earl Tucker
• The Ellen Show: Santa Claus
• Lou Grant: Lou Grant
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Lou Grant
• The Practice: Judge Marcus Winnaker
• Roots: Captain Davies
• Royal Pains
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: Wilson White
• Thunder Alley: Gil Jones
• Working Class: Hank Greziak
• The X-Files: Maurice

Film

• El Dorado: Bart Jason
• Elf: Santa Claus
• Up: Carl Fredrickson

Western Animation

• Batman: The Animated Series: Roland Dagget
• The Boondocks: Ed Wuncler
• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: Fixer
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Hoggish Greedly
• Family Guy: Steve Bellows
• Fish Police: Chief Abalone
• Freakazoid!!: Sgt. Mike Cosgrove
• Gargoyles: Hudson
• The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: Mr Voorhees
• Johnny Bravo: Dr. Miller/Uncle Lou
• Justice League: Granny Goodness
• King of the Hill: Stinky
• Olive the Other Reindeer: Santa Claus
• Sat AM Sonic the Hedgehog: Cat
• The Simpsons
• The Spectacular Spider-Man: Uncle Ben Parker
• Spider-Man: The Animated Series: J. Jonah Jameson
• Superman the Animated Series: Granny Goodness
• The Wild Thornberrys: Frank Hunter
• W.I.T.C.H.: Napoleon
• Young Justice: Kent Nelson/Dr. Fate

Video Games

• Knights of the Old Republic: Master Vrook Lamar
• X-Men Legends: Healer

Anime

• 3×3 Eyes: Grandpa Ayanokoji (New Generation Version 2000)

Radio

• Star Wars: Jabba the Hutt