57 Facts About Edward Asner

Eddie Asner was an American actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild.

Edward Asner is best remembered for portraying Lou Grant during the 1970s and early 1980s, on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series Lou Grant, making him one of the few television actors to portray the same character in both a comedy and a drama.

Edward Asner played John Wayne's adversary Bart Jason in the 1966 Western El Dorado.

Edward Asner portrayed Santa Claus in several films, including in 2003's Elf.

In early 2011, Edward Asner returned to television as butcher Hank Greziak in Working Class, the first original sitcom on cable channel CMT.

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Edward Asner starred in Michael, Tuesdays and Thursdays, on CBC Television and appeared in The Glades.

Edward Asner had a guest role in Cobra Kai, appearing as Sid Weinberg in seasons one and three.

Eddie Edward Asner was born on November 15,1929, in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Kansas City, Kansas.

Edward Asner was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family and given the Hebrew name Yitzhak.

Edward Asner attended Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kansas, and the University of Chicago.

Edward Asner studied journalism in Chicago until a professor advised him there was little money to be made in the profession.

Edward Asner had been working in a steel mill, but he quickly switched to drama, debuting as the martyred Thomas Becket in a campus production of T S Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral.

Edward Asner eventually dropped out of school, going to work as a taxi driver, worked on the assembly line for General Motors, and other odd jobs before being drafted in the military in 1951.

Edward Asner served with the US Army Signal Corps from 1951 to 1953 and appeared in plays that toured Army bases in Europe.

Edward Asner later made frequent guest appearances with the successor to Compass, The Second City.

In New York City, Edward Asner played Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum in the Off-Broadway revival of Threepenny Opera, scored his first Broadway role in Face of a Hero alongside Jack Lemmon in 1960, and began to make inroads as a television actor, having made his TV debut in 1957 on Studio One.

Edward Asner made his film debut in 1962, in the Elvis Presley vehicle Kid Galahad.

Edward Asner was cast on Jack Lord's ABC drama series Stoney Burke and in the series finale of CBS's The Reporter, starring Harry Guardino.

Edward Asner appeared on Mr Novak, Ben Casey, Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, The Outer Limits, The Fugitive, and The Invaders.

In 1963, Edward Asner appeared as George Johnson on The Virginian in the episode "Echo of Another Day".

Edward Asner was best known for his character Lou Grant, who was first introduced on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970.

Edward Asner appeared as a veteran streetwise officer in an episode of the 1973 version of Police Story.

Edward Asner was acclaimed for his role in the ABC miniseries Roots, as Captain Davies, the morally conflicted captain of the Lord Ligonier, the slave ship that brought Kunta Kinte to America.

Edward Asner was even nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program but lost to Eartha Kitt for Nick Jr.

Edward Asner provided the voice of the main protagonist Carl Fredricksen in the Academy Award-winning Pixar film Up.

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In 2001, Edward Asner was the recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.

Edward Asner won more Emmy Awards for performing than any other male actor.

In July 2010, Edward Asner completed recording sessions for Shattered Hopes: The True Story of the Amityville Murders; a documentary on the 1974 DeFeo murders in Amityville, New York.

Edward Asner served as the narrator for the film, which covers a forensic analysis of the murders, the trial in which 23-year-old DeFeo son Ronald DeFeo Jr.

Also in 2010, Edward Asner played the title role in FDR, a stage production about the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; he subsequently continued to tour the play throughout the country.

In January 2011, Edward Asner took a supporting role on CMT's first original sitcom Working Class.

Edward Asner made an appearance in the independent comedy feature Not Another B Movie, and had a role as billionaire Warren Buffett in HBO's economic drama Too Big to Fail.

Edward Asner provided voice-over narration for many documentaries and films about social activism, including Tiger by the Tail, a documentary film detailing the efforts of Eric Mann and the Campaign to keep General Motors' Van Nuys assembly plant running.

Edward Asner recorded for a public radio show and podcast, Playing On Air, appearing in Warren Leight's The Final Interrogation of Ceaucescu's Dog with Jesse Eisenberg, and Mike Reiss's New York Story.

Edward Asner was the voice-over narrator for the 2016 documentary Behind the Fear: The Hidden Story of HIV, directed by Nicole Zwiren, a controversial study on the AIDS debate.

In 2018, Edward Asner was cast in the Netflix dark comedy, Dead to Me, which premiered on May 3,2019.

Edward Asner had a recurring guest role in the 2018–present series Cobra Kai, portraying Johnny Lawrence's step-father, Sid Weinberg, in seasons one and three.

Edward Asner subsequently toured for the next three years in "concert readings" of the play in more than a dozen cities across the United States.

In 2021, Edward Asner played the role of Claude in the Halloween special Muppets Haunted Mansion.

Edward Asner served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild, in which capacity during the 1980s he opposed United States policy in Central America, working closely with the Alliance for Survival.

Edward Asner was active in a variety of other causes, such as the movement to free Mumia Abu-Jamal and the movement to establish California One Care, single-payer health care in California, for which he created a television advertisement.

Edward Asner endorsed Dennis Kucinich in the 2004 United States presidential election, and Barack Obama during the 2008 United States presidential election.

Edward Asner was formerly a member of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and was a member of DSOC's successor, the Democratic Socialists of America.

Edward Asner believed that his left-wing political views, as well as the publicity surrounding them, were the actual root causes for the show's cancellation.

In 2011, Edward Asner endorsed Democratic candidate Marcy Winograd who finished 4th in the 16-candidate primary behind eventual winner Janice Hahn, in California's 36th congressional district special election.

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Edward Asner was on the Entertainment Board of Directors for The Survivor Mitzvah Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing direct emergency aid to elderly and impoverished Holocaust survivors in Eastern Europe.

Edward Asner was a member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a free speech organization that is dedicated to protecting comic book creators and retailers from prosecutions based on content.

Edward Asner served as an advisor to the Rosenberg Fund for Children, an organization founded by the children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, which provides benefits for the children of political activists, and was a board member for the wildlife conservation organization Defenders of Wildlife.

Edward Asner sat on the advisory board for Exceptional Minds, a non-profit school and a computer animation studio for young adults on the autism spectrum.

Edward Asner was a supporter of Humane Borders, an organization based in Tucson, Arizona, which maintains water stations in the Sonoran desert for use by undocumented migrants, with the goal of preventing deaths by dehydration and exposure.

Edward Asner was the master of ceremonies at that organization's volunteer dinner in fall 2017.

Edward Asner narrated the documentary film The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror.

Edward Asner was adamantly opposed to such a merger, arguing that the planned merger would destroy the SAG's health plan and disempower actors.

In 2021, Edward Asner traveled to Monte Rio, California to support the reopening, revitalization, and shifted focus of the local Monte Rio Theater.

Edward Asner was a parent and a grandparent to autistic children and was involved with the 501 nonprofit organization Autism Speaks.

Edward Asner served as a board member and adviser for Aspiritech, a nonprofit organization that trains high-functioning autistic persons to test software and perform quality-assurance services for companies.

Edward Asner died of natural causes at his home in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on the morning of August 29,2021, at the age of 91.