Sundance: Catching “Up” With Ed Asner
Edward “Ed” Asner is a film, television and stage actor, voice actor and a former president of the Screen Actors Guild.
He is primarily known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant during the 1970’s and early 1980’s, 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 leading character in both a comedy and a drama.
In 2009, he starred as the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar’s award-winning animated film “Up”. He also played Santa in 2003’s “Elf.”
In early 2011, Asner returned to television as butcher Hank Greziak in “Working Class”, the first original sitcom on cable channel CMT. He starred in the Canadian television series “Michael, Tuesdays and Thursdays”, on CBC Television and has appeared in the 2013 television series “The Glades”, in the episode “Killer Barbecue”.
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He told us he decides what he wants to act in next according to what he thinks of the character. “It’s the character,” he said. “It’s the role, that’s all that counts.”
