Ed Asner (Creator)

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There'd better not be any spunk in this entry...

"Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy.
So Fuzzy Wuzzy changed his name to Ed Asner".

—"Dot's Poetry Corner", Animaniacs

Eddie "Ed" Asner (Hebrew name Yitzhak, also credited as Edward Asner; November 15, 1929 – August 29, 2021) was an Emmy Award-winning American actor whose career lasted more than six decades. He's perhaps best known for his character Lou Grant, who debuted in The Mary Tyler Moore Show. After the show's run, Asner's character would be given his own show, Lou Grant. This made him one of the few actors to play the same character on both a comedy series and a drama series (and he won Emmys in both categories, a feat that's only happened one other time since with Uzo Aduba). He also served two terms as President of the Screen Actors Guild.

Asner started his voice acting career in 1981, but his roles in voice acting really took off in 1992 when he voiced Hoggish Greedly in Captain Planet and the Planeteers. He would go on from that to role to voice many beloved, if somewhat gruff characters, as well as a plethora of one-shot characters for television, movies, and video games, his most famous recent role probably being Carl Frederickson from Up. (He reprised the role in the Disney+ series Dug Days, which premiered just three days after his passing.)

Productions he has played in:

Anime

3×3 Eyes: Grandpa Ayanokoji (New Generation Version 2000)

Live-Action TV

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Warden Bragan (in "What Frightened You, Fred?")
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Jack Stander (in "To Catch a Butterfly")
Arli$$: Lenny Crowley (in "Last Call")
The Bronx Zoo: Principal Joe Danzig (series star)
Cade's County: Nick Grainger (in "The Fake")
The Closer (1998): Carl "Dobbs" Dobson
Cobra Kai: Sid Weinberg
CSI: NY: Abraham Klein/Klaus Braun (received an Emmy nomination for their one-time guest star appearance in "Yahrzeit")
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Mr. Weiner
Dead to Me: Abe Rifkin (in season 1)
The Dead Zone: Marty Bracknell (in "Coming Home")
Dharma & Greg: Earl Tucker
Dinosaurs: Evil Georgie (regular) (in "Georgie Must Die!")
Ellen: Santa Claus
The F.B.I.: John Carl Brock (in "The Tormentors"), Walter Gretzler (in "The Dynasty") and Peter Zacharias (in "The Attorney")
The Fugitive: Sheriff Mayhew (in "Masquerade"), Roy Malinek (in "Three Cheers for Little Boy Blue") and Joe Bantam (in "Run the Man Down")
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.: George Kramer (in "The Double-O-Nothing Affair")
Gunsmoke: Seargeant Wilks (in "Hung High") and Jack Redmond (in "The Whispering Tree")
Hawaii Five-O and Hawaii Five-0 as August March
The Invaders (1967): Taugus (in "Wall of Crystal") and Harry Ferguson (in "The Miracle")
Ironside (1967): Marlon Davis (in "The Fourteenth Runner") and Warrant Officer Frank Simpson (in "Not With a Whimper, But a Bang")
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Coach Martin Schultz (in "Monster's Legacy")
Lou Grant: Lou Grant
Mad About You: Zigmund Klarik
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Lou Grant
Mission: Impossible: George Simpson (in "The Mind of Stefan Miklos")
The Mod Squad: Harry Loring (in "Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot!"), Joe Walton (in "Color of Laughter, Color of Tears") and Sgt. Ed Lassiter (in "The Connection")
Murdoch Mysteries: Kris Kringle (in "A Merry Murdoch Christmas")
The Outer Limits (1963): Detective Sgt. Thomas Siroleo (in "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork")
The Practice: Judge Marcus Winnaker
The Rat Patrol: Captain Friedrich (in "The Life Against Death Raid")
Rhoda: Lou Grant
Route 66: Five different roles^List
Roots (1977): Captain Thomas Davies
Royal Pains
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: Wilson White
Thunder Alley: Gil Jones
The Untouchables: Fedor Bartok (in "The Death Tree"), Jimmy Canada (in "The Night They Shot Santa Claus") and Frank (in "Elegy" and "Search for a Dead Man")
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Brynov (in "The Exile")
The Wild Wild West: Furman Crotty (in "The Night of the Amnesiac")
Working Class: Hank Greziak
The X-Files: Maurice