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Acting

Ed Asner

Career: Active from 1957 to 2024, busiest in 2011 and 2017 with 9 main titles each.

Leading roles: 113
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: Freakazoid!
90/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 199 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Ed Asner Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Psychological
4.4, average 5.5
Tension
4.9, average 6.0
Uncanny
1.5, average 2.5
Violence
3.1, average 4.1

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Social Commentary 12
Family-Friendly 9
Character-Driven 8
Character Study 7
Situational Humor 5
Heartwarming 5
Comfort Watch 5
Psychological Thriller 5
Feel-Good Movie 5
Underdog Story 5
Small-Town Charm 4
Coming-of-Age 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

328

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

Unplugged

as Dr. Eaton (voice)

2020s

20 titles · average score 63

Altered Reality

34

as Mike Wilson

Carl's Date

67

as Carl (voice)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

54

as Grandpa (voice)

Dug Days

89

TV show · as Carl (voice)

Senior Entourage

as Ed

Muppets Haunted Mansion

67

as Ghost of Claude

M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters

60

as Dr. Howard Arden

The Garden Left Behind

61

as Dr. Cleary

Rain Beau's End

as Gunny

Tiger Within

as Samuel

Bury Me in Armor

as Dimitry George

Central Park

77

TV show · as Ambrose (voice)

2010s

69 titles · average score 58

Dead to Me

78

TV show · as Abe Rifkin

All of My Heart: Inn Love

60

as Vern

CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels!

26

as Arthur (voice)

Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas!

45

as Santa

Love Finds You in Valentine

63

as Gabriel Morgan

Super Sex

as George

All of My Heart

63

as Vern

The Games Maker

46

as Nicholas Drago

Second Chances

53

as Chief Buddy

All Star Superman

73

as Perry White (voice)

Young Justice

78

TV show · as Kent Nelson (voice)

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse

43

as Granny Goodness (voice)

2000s

62 titles · average score 67

88

as Carl Fredricksen (voice)

Modern Family

85

TV show · as Herschel

Dug's Special Mission

68

as Carl Fredricksen (voice) (uncredited)

Christmas Is Here Again

47

as Krad (voice)

The Christmas Card

66

as Luke Spelman

Out of the Woods

48

as Jack Green

Elf

67

as Santa

Daredevil vs. Spider-Man

74

as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)

The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay

61

as Augie Sinclair

Spider-Man: The Return of the Green Goblin

77

as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)

The Animal

39

as Chief Wilson

Max Steel

72

TV show · as Chuck Marshak (voice)

1990s

66 titles · average score 68

Olive, the Other Reindeer

63

as Santa Claus (voice)

Our Friend, Martin

69

as Mr. Harris (voice)

Family Guy

64

TV show · as Steve Bellows (voice)

TV show

Hard Rain

44

as Uncle Charlie

The Long Way Home

87

as George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice)

Freakazoid!

90

TV show · as Sgt. Cosgrove (voice)

Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken

78

as Hudson (voice)

Gargoyles

83

TV show · as Hudson (voice)

Spider-Man

87

TV show · as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)

Thunder Alley

TV show · as Gil Jones

Fish Police

45

TV show · as Chief Abalone (voice)

1980s

25 titles · average score 63

The Simpsons

83

TV show · as Editor (voice)

A Friendship in Vienna

as Opah Oskar Reikman

The Bronx Zoo

TV show

Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night

51

as Scalawag (voice)

The Christmas Star

58

as Horace McNickle

Joshua and the Battle of Jericho

as Joshua (voice)

Darlin' Clementine

as Lucky Jake

Off the Rack

TV show · as Sam Waltman

Anatomy of an Illness

as Norman Cousins

A Case of Libel

as Robert Sloane

O'Hara's Wife

44

as Bob O'Hara

Fort Apache, the Bronx

57

as Connolly

1970s

29 titles · average score 64

Lou Grant

73

TV show · as Lou Grant

The Gathering

68

as Adam

Gus

54

as Hank Cooper

Rich Man, Poor Man

80

TV show · as Axel Jordache

Hey, I'm Alive

as Ralph Flores

Twigs

as Phil

The Wrestler

43

as Frank Bass

The Girl Most Likely To...

66

as Det. Ralph Varone

Haunts of the Very Rich

56

as Al Hunsicker

Skin Game

61

as Plunkett

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

85

TV show · as Lou Grant

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

51

as Woody Garfield

1960s

46 titles · average score 62

Change of Habit

34

as Lt. Moretti

Hawaii Five-O

48

TV show · as August March

Gunn

58

as Lt. Jacoby

Ironside

45

TV show · as Marlon Davis

Mission: Impossible

79

TV show · as George Simpson

The Venetian Affair

46

as Frank Rosenfeld

The Slender Thread

71

as Det. Judd Ridley

The Wild Wild West

64

TV show · as Furman Crotty

Slattery's People

TV show · as Frank Radcliff

The Fugitive

84

TV show · as Roy Malinek / Sheriff Mayhew

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

54

TV show · as Jack Stander

as Kurt Harden

1950s

9 titles · average score 71

The Untouchables

53

TV show · as Frank / Fedor Bartok

Naked City

69

TV show · as Lt. Vincent Busti

The Night America Trembled

as 3rd Actor (as Edward Asner)

Decoy

70

TV show · as Sergeant

The Defender (Studio One)

as Juror (uncredited)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

86

TV show · as Warden Bragan

Gunsmoke

76

TV show · as Redmond / Sgt. Wilks

The Oscars

TV show · as Self / Carl Fredricksen (voice)

Omnibus

75

TV show

1940s

1 title · average score 65

Studio One

65

TV show · as Actor #3