Ed Asner

Nobody likes their boss, right? He or she are usually our worst nightmare who we have to put up with in order to get that steady paycheck every week. But on occasion after going through many jobs we finally get that one boss who we wouldn’t mind grabbing a drink…

His Greatest Role — In 1970 I began watching “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” with the Lou Grant character among other iconic cast members. Then he went onto his own “Lou Grant” show. I had seen him in various other roles, recall him, especially, in “Roots”, and a couple of westerns. I hadn’t been…

Monday, 30 August 2021 Dear Ian, You wouldn’t believe how much I learn from you. Yesterday it was that Ed Asner voiced Carl Frederikson in Pixar’s UP. I already knew he’d died when you sent me that text from your bedroom. NOTE TO SELF: Never dismiss son’s texts without reading…

TL;DR: Ed Asner Good The day I first met Ed Asner, I had just been abruptly fired from a guest role on the Paul Reiser sitcom “My Two Dads” and I was reeling. I nevertheless somehow managed to book the next job I auditioned for (on the same day I…

By the dawn of the 1970s, as he turned 40, Ed Asner had built a career as one of the solidest character actors in Hollywood. That’s no small deal. Then he met Lou Grant, and by the time he turned 50 Ed Asner had become one of the best-known and…

ED ASNER, the actor, was born in 1929 and raised in an Orthodox Jewish home in Kansas City, Kansas. His father, Morris Asner, a strong-willed man from a shtetl near Belarus, had “landsmen” in the Kansas City area, so he went there, bought a horse and started collecting junk. …

It was the thrill of a lifetime for a cub reporter who was also a fan of televisions favorite newsman. It may be people of a, um, certain age who remember Ed Asner’s most important role following the Mary Taylor Moore Show. It was playing a gruff-but-lovable editor of a…

A story. Ed Asner was one of the truly good ones. When I was little, by my Dad’s office, he was filming a show called “Thunder Alley”. Having been fascinated by film making and the entertainment industry, I would go to the set and watch and wander. I was just…

I regret to confirm the death of Emmy-winner Ed Asner, former president of the Screen Actors Guild. He died Sunday, August 29, 2021 in Los…