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Edward Asner (b. 1929) is an Emmy award-winning actor best known for playing Lou Grant, first on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and then on his own Lou Grant spin-off series. In the early '90s, Asner began a prolific second career as a voice-over artist on animated series, including Superman, The Simpsons, Spider-Man, and Batman: The Animated Series.

Asner performed the "Evil Georgie" voice in the Dinosaurs episode "Georgie Must Die."

Other credits include voicing Jabba the Hutt in a radio version of Star Wars, playing Santa Claus in Elf, the father to Bette Midler's Rose in the made-for-TV version of Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim's Gypsy, and the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Disney-Pixar's Up.

Asner has also hosted Saturday Night Live, and made appearances on the television series Dharma and Greg, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Night of 100 Stars, and Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales & Legends.

TriviaEdit

• Asner was among a short list of actors that Jim Henson considered for the role of Mike Tarkanian in The Great Muppet Caper.^[1]

SourcesEdit

1. ↑ Jim’s list of possible actors to cast in the Editor role.

External linksEdit

• IMDb
• Internet Broadway Database