Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929) is an American 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. More recently, he provided the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's newest film, Up.
Asner was born Eddie Asner in Kansas City, Missouri, across the river from the Kansas City, Kansas home of his Russian American pa...
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Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929) is an American 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. More recently, he provided the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's newest film, Up.
Asner was born Eddie Asner in Kansas City, Missouri, across the river from the Kansas City, Kansas home of his Russian American parents, Lizzie (née Seliger), a housewife, and Morris David Asner, who ran a second-hand shop. He was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family. Asner attended historic Wyandotte High School and the University of Chicago. He served with the U.S. Army Signal Corps and, most crucially, spent many hours in the Granada movie theater in Kansas City, Kansas.
Before he landed his role with Mary Tyler Moore, Asner guest starred in such television series as NBC's The Outlaws (1962) and in the series finale of CBS's The Reporter in the episode entitled "Vote...
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