Ed Asner

Edward Asner is commonly known as “Ed Asner” is an American actor born on November 15, 1929, in Kansas City, Missouri located at the United States. He is known for his great works as a film actor, an actor on stage and television and also as a voice actor. He also worked as a political activist playing a vital role in the SAG strike in 1980 and participated actively in other movements like that of the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal and the single-payer health in California. Ed Asner also decorated the seat of the President of the Screen Actors Guild and held office for four consecutive years (1981-1985) and was after that succeeded by Patty Duke Patty Duke was born on December 14, 1946, in Elmhu >> Read More... (an American actress of film, television and stage). He belonged to the U.S Army Signal Corps too and worked in several plays for which he is very well known. He also owned the membership of the Compass Players. Asner was born to a Jewish couple Lizzie and David Morris Asner. He went to Wyandotte High School and the University of Chicago for his schooling and further studies respectively. I

n the year 1959, he tied knots of marriage with Nancy Sykes and had three children from his first wife, twins- Matthew and Liza and another one Kate. This marriage of Asner somehow did not work out, and he underwent a divorce in the year 1988. Once again he was engaged to a producer named Cindy Gilmore in 1991 and got married the successive year on August 2, but soon again Gilmore called for a divorce in 2007, which brought his married life to an end. Asner also fathered an autistic child Charles, conceived by Carol Jean Vogelman in 1987. He also had associations with a non-profit organization which deals in Autism. For several years, Asner reserved his position in the Threepenny Opera, an off-Broadway production and he attempted petty subjects as a film actor and made a few TV appearances, in 1950.

Asner has been in the world of Hollywood for over half a century and has marked his arena with works that speak of his talent. He has bagged a lot of appreciation for his films, TV series and even Voice acting which includes animation and video games. It seems he has been the most favourite character for the role of Santa Claus, the role of Santa Claus was played by him almost five times (Elf (2003), The Ellen Show (2001), Olive, the other Reindeer (1999), The Story of Santa Claus (1996) and also in an episode of Highway to Heaven. He enacted the most prominent role of his, as Lou Grant in 1970s. The Murder Men (1961), Gus (1976), Daniel (1983) are a few of his works in a film. In addition to his films he also played a role in several TV Series such as The Eleventh Hour (1963), The Fugitive (1965), Rhoda (1974) the most recent ones being The Good Wife (2015) and Criminal Minds Criminal Minds is an American police crime fiction >> Read More... (2015). Besides he also worked as a voice artist and lent his voice for the famous works like the Academy Award winning Pixar animated movie Up, followed by Star Wars Star Wars is a show of Mastiii, India’s most popul >> Read More... : Knights of the Old Republic, Disney Recess, Johnny Bravo Johnny Bravo is an animated American sitcom in the >> Read More... and also in great films like Spiderman, much more has occupied the list. Asner has been felicitated with the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Award in 2001, which is a matter of honor for an actor in the film industry.

He has also won seven Emmy Awards more primarily for the role of Lou Grant, which he played outstandingly. Asner shared his Emmy award with Valerie Harper Born on August 22, 1939, Valerie Harper is an Amer >> Read More... in 1972 for The Mary Tyler Moore Show. He had been nominated for the Emmy Awards for around twenty times which serves as an achievement in itself. Till 2015, he has been the only person to bag the Emmy awards for both comedy and drama. Asner has been a legendary actor and has set his benchmarks in both the fields- comedy and drama. He has loved his occupation and still enjoys acting. He has been a legend in his era.