Ed Asner

Ed Asner

acting Nov 15, 1929 Aug 29, 2021 Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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224 of 239 films rated

IMDb avg 6.4
IMDb median 6.5
RT avg 63%
RT median 66%

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  1. Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary → Self (archive footage)
  2. Unplugged → Dr. Eaton (voice)
  3. A Man and His Prostate
  4. The Gettysburg Address → Edward Everett (voice)
  5. Altered Reality → Mike Wilson
  6. Carl's Date → Carl (voice)
  7. Being Mary Tyler Moore → Self (voice)
  8. Commitment to Life → Self (archive footage)
  9. A Fargo Christmas Story → Popcorn Bud
  10. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules → Grandpa Heffley (voice)
  11. The Premise (TV) → Mr. Holmes
  12. Muppets Haunted Mansion → Ghost of Claude
  13. Dug Days (TV) → Carl (voice)
  14. Scarlett → Lou
  15. Back Home Again → Peter Lionsbridge (voice)
  16. Senior Entourage → Ed
  17. Blood → The Prophet
  18. Captain Daddy → Grampa (voice)
  19. Central Park (TV) → Ambrose (voice)
  20. The Holiday Movies That Made Us (TV) → Self
  21. The Garden Left Behind → Dr. Cleary
  22. M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters → Dr. Howard Arden
  23. Rain Beau's End → Gunny
  24. SEVEN
  25. Tiger Within → Samuel
  26. Bury Me in Armor → Dimitry George
  27. The Kelly Clarkson Show (TV) → Self
  28. Doom Patrol (TV) → Hospital Patient
  29. Dead to Me (TV) → Abe Rifkin
  30. Faith, Hope & Love → Harry Karetas
  31. In Vino → Charles
  32. Cobra Kai (TV) → Sid Weinberg
  33. Ballmastrz: 9009 (TV) → Rupert T. Digzfield (voice)
  34. The Parting Glass → Tommy
  35. All of My Heart: The Wedding → Vern
  36. Olympia → Self
  37. Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting → Jefferson
  38. Angels on Tap → Swifty
  39. LA DA Story → Self (archive footage)
  40. Honor Amongst Men → Pop Halmo
  41. Eva: A-7063 → Narrator (voice)
  42. Ed Asner's Oral History → Self - Interviewee
  43. And the Winner Isn't → Self
  44. Yamasong: March of the Hollows → Elder Pyreez (voice)
  45. CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels! → Arthur (voice)
  46. All of My Heart: Inn Love → Vern
  47. Saving Christmas → Rick
  48. Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man → Adult Walter (voice)
  49. Joe's War → Harry
  50. Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas! → Santa
  51. A StoryBots Christmas → Santa
  52. The Gliksmans → Moshe
  53. MacGyver (TV) → Saul
  54. Love Finds You in Valentine → Gabriel Morgan
  55. Super Sex → George
  56. Getting Ed Laid → Ed Randall
  57. The Best Democracy Money Can Buy → Self
  58. Titanic: Sinking the Myths → Wilhelm Müller
  59. Mary Jane: A Musical Potumentary → Corporate Manager
  60. Love Meet Hope → Mr. James
  61. Behind the Fear → Narrator (voice)
  62. Grace and Frankie (TV) → Howard Jay
  63. Celebrity Family Feud (TV) → Self
  64. All of My Heart → Vern
  65. Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration → Self / Lou Grant (archive footage)
  66. The Nutcracker Sweet → Owl (voice)
  67. I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!! → Himself
  68. A Merry Murdoch Christmas → Kris Kringle
  69. Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts → Self
  70. Chasing Life (TV) → April's grandfather
  71. I Know That Voice → Self
  72. Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas → Santa (voice)
  73. Audrey → Walt
  74. The Games Maker → Nicholas Drago
  75. Frozen in Time → Grandpa (voice)
  76. Teen Titans Go! (TV) → Sgt. Mike Cosgrove (voice)
  77. Mom (TV) → Jack
  78. The Crazy Ones (TV) → Mr. Finger
  79. Second Chances → Chief Buddy
  80. Christmas on the Bayou → Papa Noel
  81. Axel: The Biggest Little Hero → Bonta / Narrator (voice)
  82. Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving → Mr Wilson
  83. American Road → Walt Whitman
  84. Men at Work (TV) → Bob
  85. Home Alone: The Holiday Heist → Mr. Carson
  86. Foodfight! → Mr. Leonard (voice)
  87. Casting By → Self
  88. Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl → Self
  89. Should've Been Romeo → Charlie
  90. Elephant Sighs → Leo
  91. Autism and Cake → Fred
  92. Liberator → President Whitlock
  93. Working Class (TV) → Hank Greziak
  94. Too Big to Fail → Warren Buffett
  95. All Star Superman → Perry White (voice)
  96. Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays (TV) → Dr. Wasserman
  97. Let Go → Artie
  98. Absolute Killers
  99. Hopelessly in June → Rabbi
  100. Good Men → Morty
  101. Identical → Yaakov Washington
  102. The Desert of Forbidden Art → Voice
  103. Not Another B Movie → Angry Investor
  104. Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7 → Himself
  105. The True Story of the Amityville Murders: From Homicide to Horror → Narrator
  106. Hawaii Five-0 (TV) → August March
  107. Regular Show (TV) → Santa Claus (voice)
  108. Young Justice (TV) → Kent Nelson (voice)
  109. Hot in Cleveland (TV) → Jameson
  110. Superman/Batman: Apocalypse → Granny Goodness (voice)
  111. The Triumph of William Henry Harrison
  112. Modern Family (TV) → Herschel
  113. The Good Wife (TV) → Guy Redmayne
  114. The Middle (TV) → Ben
  115. The Cleveland Show (TV)
  116. Up → Carl Fredricksen (voice)
  117. The Line (TV)
  118. Dug's Special Mission → Carl Fredricksen (voice) (uncredited)
  119. Up: Upisodes (TV) → Carl Fredricksen (voice)
  120. American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist → Self
  121. Christmas Dreams → Jerry
  122. The Spectacular Spider-Man (TV) → Ben Parker (voice)
  123. Shatner's Raw Nerve (TV) → Self
  124. Gigantic → Kirby Weathersby
  125. Christmas Cottage → Sidney
  126. Generation Gap → Bart Cahill
  127. Channels → Ed Packard
  128. Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union → Narrator (Voice)
  129. Electile Dysfunction: Inside the Business of American Campaigns → Self
  130. The Sarah Silverman Program. (TV) → Commandant Von Reichenstein
  131. Andy Barker, P.I. (TV) → Mickey Doyle
  132. Hard Four → Golden Hands Segal
  133. Christmas Is Here Again → Krad (voice)
  134. From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
  135. The Rich Have Their Own Photographers
  136. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (TV) → Wilson White
  137. The Christmas Card → Luke Spelman
  138. Bones (TV) → Rufus Tucker
  139. American Dad! (TV) → TV Guide Editor-in-Chief (voice)
  140. American Dad! (TV) → Narrator (voice)
  141. American Dad! (TV) → Mailbox #2 (voice)
  142. American Dad! (TV) → Grandpa Smith (voice)
  143. The Boondocks (TV) → Ed Wuncler (voice)
  144. Spider-Man: The Venom Saga → J. Jonah Jameson
  145. Out of the Woods → Jack Green
  146. Sir! No Sir! → Col. Heinl
  147. Sleeping Dogs Lie → Sheriff Delaney
  148. Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class → Narrator
  149. Crab Orchard
  150. The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror → Himself
  151. CSI: NY (TV) → Abraham Klein
  152. Justice League Unlimited (TV) → Hephaestus (voice)
  153. Justice League Unlimited (TV) → Granny Goodness (voice)
  154. Center of the Universe (TV) → Art Barnett
  155. Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde → Self
  156. Missing Brendan → George Calden
  157. Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock → J Jonah Jameson
  158. Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (TV) → Officer Barr (voice)
  159. Elf → Santa
  160. Daredevil vs. Spider-Man → J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
  161. Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure → Uncle Nick
  162. The Commission → Capt. J.W. 'Will' Fritz
  163. The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay → Augie Sinclair
  164. The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series → Self
  165. Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure → Narrator (voice)
  166. The Dead Zone (TV) → Marty Bracknell
  167. Pope John XXIII → Angelo Roncalli
  168. The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion → Self
  169. The Man Who Saved Christmas → Charles Gilbert
  170. Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown → J. Jonah Jameson
  171. Remembering Roots → Self
  172. Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII → Jean XXIII
  173. The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It → Narrator
  174. The Animal → Chief Wilson
  175. In Search of Peace → David Ben Gurion (voice)
  176. Island Prey → Jay Roth
  177. Gahan Wilson's The Kid → Dead Cat
  178. Curb Your Enthusiasm (TV) → Mr. Weiner
  179. Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (TV) → Fixer (voice)
  180. The Huntress (TV)
  181. Max Steel (TV) → Chuck Marshak (voice)
  182. Above Suspicion → Thomas O'Claire
  183. Perfect Game → Billy Hicks
  184. Becoming Dick → Davis Aldrich
  185. Common Ground → Ira
  186. The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
  187. Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom → Self
  188. Bring Him Home → Geza
  189. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV) → Martin Schultz
  190. Family Guy (TV) → Steve Bellows (voice)
  191. The Bachelor → Gluckman
  192. Olive, the Other Reindeer → Santa Claus (voice)
  193. Our Friend, Martin → Mr. Harris (voice)
  194. Snowden's Christmas → Big Daddy (voice)
  195. Love and Action in Chicago → Taylor
  196. O' Christmas Tree → Nutcracker (voice)
  197. The Sissy Duckling → Father Duck (voice)
  198. The Wild Thornberrys (TV) → Frank Hunter (voice)
  199. Hercules (TV) → Mentor (voice)
  200. Hard Rain → Uncle Charlie
  201. More Tales of the City (TV) → Jack Lederer
  202. Maggie Winters (TV)
  203. The Closer (TV)
  204. King of the Hill (TV) → Stinky (voice)
  205. The Practice (TV) → Judge Matlin Pratt
  206. The Practice (TV) → Judge Marcus Winnaker
  207. Johnny Bravo (TV)
  208. Dharma & Greg (TV) → Earl Tucker
  209. The Angry Beavers (TV)
  210. Dog's Best Friend → Jeep, the Sheep Dog (voice)
  211. The Trial of Adolf Eichmann → Dr. Robert Servatius (voice)
  212. A Christmas Carol → Marley (voice)
  213. The Long Way Home → George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice)
  214. Payback → Jack Patkanis
  215. Academy Boyz
  216. The Fumbleheads → Charlie Atwater
  217. Arli$$ (TV) → Lenny Crowley
  218. Superman: The Animated Series (TV) → Granny Goodness (voice)
  219. The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (TV) → Von Romme (voice)
  220. Bruno the Kid (TV) → The Engineer (voice)
  221. E! True Hollywood Story (TV)
  222. Gone in the Night → Det. John Waters
  223. The Story of Santa Claus → Santa Claus (voice)
  224. Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade → Self
  225. Hanged on a Twisted Cross → Narrator
  226. Freakazoid! (TV) → Sgt. Cosgrove (voice)
  227. Dumb and Dumber (TV) → General / St. Nick / Old Woman (voice)
  228. Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken → Hudson (voice)
  229. Goldilocks and the Three Bears → Bruno
  230. Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger
  231. ER (TV) → James McNulty
  232. Touched by an Angel (TV) → Bud
  233. Spider-Man (TV) → J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
  234. Duckman (TV) → Mort Sidelman (voice)
  235. Gargoyles (TV) → Hudson (voice)
  236. The Magic School Bus (TV) → Gen. Aranius (voice)
  237. Thunder Alley (TV) → Gil Jones
  238. Gypsy → Charles Thompson
  239. Heads → Ab Abbot
  240. Down on the Waterfront
  241. The X-Files (TV) → Maurice
  242. Animaniacs (TV) → Vern (voice)
  243. Intimate Portrait (TV) → Self
  244. Politically Incorrect (TV)
  245. Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy → Self
  246. Batman: The Animated Series (TV) → Roland Daggett (voice)
  247. Mad About You (TV) → Zigmund Klarik
  248. Hearts Afire (TV) → George Lahti
  249. Fish Police (TV) → Chief Abalone (voice)
  250. Cruel Doubt (TV) → Bill Osteen
  251. Earth and the American Dream → Reader (voice)
  252. Dinosaurs (TV) → Evil Georgie (voice)
  253. JFK → Guy Bannister
  254. Switched at Birth (TV) → Ted Marx
  255. Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus → Edward P. Mitchell
  256. Silent Motive → Sam
  257. Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show → Himself
  258. The Real Story of Happy Birthday To You → Charlie (voice)
  259. Captain Planet and the Planeteers (TV) → Hoggish Greedly (voice)
  260. The Trials of Rosie O'Neill (TV) → Walter Kovacs
  261. Night of 100 Stars III → Self
  262. The Cops Are Robbers
  263. Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less → Harvey Metcalfe
  264. The Simpsons (TV) → Editor (voice)
  265. Happily Ever After → Scowl the Owl (voice)
  266. Roseanne (TV)
  267. Moon Over Parador → Self
  268. A Friendship in Vienna → Opah Oskar Reikman
  269. The Bronx Zoo (TV)
  270. The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood (TV) → Self - Presenter
  271. Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood → Self
  272. Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night → Scalawag (voice)
  273. Cracked Up → Rev. Vincent Owens
  274. The Christmas Star → Horace McNickle
  275. Kate's Secret → Dr. Resnick
  276. Darlin' Clementine → Lucky Jake
  277. Vital Signs → Matthew St James
  278. Joshua and the Battle of Jericho → Joshua (voice)
  279. Tall Tales & Legends (TV) → Lucky Jake
  280. Tender Is the Night (TV) → Devereux Warren
  281. Night of 100 Stars II → Self
  282. Off the Rack (TV) → Sam Waltman
  283. Highway to Heaven (TV)
  284. Donald Duck's 50th Birthday → Self
  285. Anatomy of an Illness → Norman Cousins
  286. Reading Rainbow (TV) → Self - Narrator (voice)
  287. Koyaanisqatsi → Self (archive footage)
  288. Daniel → Jacob Ascher
  289. A Case of Libel → Robert Sloane
  290. Night of 100 Stars → Self
  291. O'Hara's Wife → Bob O'Hara
  292. Americas in Transition → Narrator
  293. Fort Apache, the Bronx → Connolly
  294. A Small Killing → Simon Shaber
  295. The Marva Collins Story → Narrator (voice)
  296. The Family Man → Eddie Madden
  297. The White Shadow (TV) → Edward Asner (uncredited)
  298. Mickey's 50 → Self
  299. A Different Approach
  300. NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney → Self
  301. The Good Doctor → Various Roles
  302. Lou Grant (TV) → Lou Grant
  303. Roots (TV) → Thomas Davies
  304. Roots (TV) → Capt. Thomas Davies
  305. The Gathering → Adam
  306. The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish → Huey P. Long
  307. Rich Man, Poor Man (TV) → Axel Jordache
  308. Gus → Hank Cooper
  309. Saturday Night Live (TV) → Self - Host
  310. Saturday Night Live (TV) → Self (uncredited)
  311. Death Scream → Peter Singleton
  312. Mitzi & 100 Guys → Self
  313. Twigs → Phil
  314. The Impostor → Barney West
  315. The Impersonation Murder Case → Dt. Ed Ames
  316. Hey, I'm Alive → Ralph Flores
  317. Dinah! (TV) → Self
  318. Rhoda (TV)
  319. The Wrestler → Frank Bass
  320. Match Game (TV) → Self
  321. Police Story (TV)
  322. The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts (TV) → Self
  323. The Girl Most Likely To... → Det. Ralph Varone
  324. Haunts of the Very Rich → Al Hunsicker
  325. Sam Cade
  326. Great Performances (TV)
  327. Skin Game → Plunkett
  328. They Call It Murder → Chief Otto Larkin
  329. The Todd Killings → Fred Reardon
  330. The Last Child → Barstow
  331. The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV) → Lou Grant
  332. The Flip Wilson Show (TV) → Self
  333. They Call Me Mister Tibbs! → Woody Garfield
  334. House on Greenapple Road → Sheriff Muntz
  335. The Old Man Who Cried Wolf → Dr. Morheim
  336. Halls of Anger → Ernie McKay
  337. Medical Center (TV)
  338. Daughter of the Mind → Saul Wiener
  339. Change of Habit → Lt. Moretti
  340. Hawaii Five-O (TV) → August March
  341. The Name of the Game (TV) → Cesare Marino
  342. The Name of the Game (TV) → Vince Leonard
  343. The Mod Squad (TV)
  344. The Mod Squad (TV) → Harry Loring
  345. Ironside (TV) → Marlon Davis
  346. The Invaders (TV) → Taugus
  347. The Invaders (TV) → Harry Ferguson
  348. Gunn → Lt. Jacoby
  349. Mission: Impossible (TV) → George Simpson
  350. Felony Squad (TV)
  351. The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (TV) → George Kramer
  352. The Rat Patrol (TV) → Captain Friedrich
  353. CBS Playhouse (TV) → Nat Congdon
  354. El Dorado → Bart Jason
  355. The Doomsday Flight → Feldman
  356. The Venetian Affair → Frank Rosenfeld
  357. The F.B.I. (TV) → John Carl Brock
  358. The F.B.I. (TV) → Walter Gretzler
  359. The F.B.I. (TV) → Pete Zacharias
  360. The Wild Wild West (TV) → Furman Crotty
  361. Run for Your Life (TV) → Carl Cappi
  362. Please Don't Eat the Daisies (TV)
  363. The Satan Bug → Henchman Veretti
  364. The Slender Thread → Det. Judd Ridley
  365. Profiles in Courage (TV) → Oliver E. Wells
  366. Profiles in Courage (TV) → President Ulysses S. Grant
  367. Slattery's People (TV) → Frank Radcliff
  368. Fanfare for a Death Scene → Pike
  369. The Fugitive (TV) → Roy Malinek
  370. The Fugitive (TV) → Sheriff Mayhew
  371. The Fugitive (TV) → Joe Bantam
  372. Burke's Law (TV) → Pablo Vasquez
  373. Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV)
  374. The Outer Limits (TV) → Detective Sgt. Thomas Siroleo
  375. Mr. Novak (TV) → Harmon Stern
  376. Mr. Novak (TV) → Paul Berg
  377. The Lieutenant (TV)
  378. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV) → Self
  379. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV) → Jack Stander
  380. The Merv Griffin Show (TV) → Self
  381. The Virginian (TV) → George Johnson
  382. Sam Benedict (TV) → Dr. Everett Colner
  383. Stoney Burke (TV) → Kapp
  384. The Eleventh Hour (TV)
  385. Kid Galahad → Assistant District Attorney Frank Gerson (uncredited)
  386. The Mike Douglas Show (TV) → Self
  387. The Mike Douglas Show (TV) → Self - Co-Host
  388. Dr. Kildare (TV) → Dr. Frank Williams
  389. The Defenders (TV) → Tim Sellers
  390. The Defenders (TV) → Harry Obermayer
  391. Cain's Hundred (TV) → Dave Keller
  392. Target: The Corruptors! (TV)
  393. The Murder Men → Dave Keller
  394. Route 66 (TV)
  395. Route 66 (TV) → Second Man
  396. Outlaws (TV)
  397. The New Girl → Kurt Harden
  398. J-24
  399. The Untouchables (TV) → Fedor Bartok
  400. The Untouchables (TV) → Frank
  401. The Untouchables (TV) → Jimmy Canada
  402. Naked City (TV) → Lt. Vincent Busti
  403. Decoy (TV) → Sergeant
  404. The Defender (Studio One) → Juror (uncredited)
  405. The Night America Trembled → 3rd Actor (as Edward Asner)
  406. Tony Awards (TV) → Self - Presenter
  407. Gunsmoke (TV) → Sgt. Wilks
  408. Gunsmoke (TV) → Redmond
  409. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV) → Warden Bragan
  410. The Oscars (TV) → Carl Fredricksen (voice)
  411. The Oscars (TV) → Self
  412. Omnibus (TV)
  413. The Emmy Awards (TV) → Self
  414. Studio One (TV) → Actor #3
  415. Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Nominee
  416. Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self
  417. Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Presenter
  418. Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Winner

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