Ed Asner

Ed Asner

Personal

Born

November 15, 1929

Hallmark Career

Films

8

Lead roles

5

Years active

2003–2018

Ed Asner has worked on 8 Hallmark Channel original movies. Of these, 5 were in a lead role.

Biography

Edward Asner (November 15, 1929 – August 29, 2021), commonly known as Ed Asner, was an American film, television, stage, and voice actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant on both 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 award-winning 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.

Hallmark Filmography

Lead roles are shown in bold.