His half-brother was Charles Einstein ( 1926 – 2007 ), a writer for such television programs as Playhouse 90 and Lou Grant.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a half-hour newsroom sitcom featuring Ed Asner as her gruff boss Lou Grant, a character that would later be spun off into an hour-long dramatic series.

Lou Grant was teaching Ted Baxter how to bet on football games, and used Ted's money, as well as some of his own to bet on the hometown Vikings winning the Super Bowl.

Heckart was familiar to television audiences with starring roles in The Five Mrs. Buchanans, Annie McGuire, Out of the Blue, Trauma Center, Partners in Crime, Backstairs at the White House ( Emmy nomination as Eleanor Roosevelt ), and guest spots on The Fugitive, The Mary Tyler Moore Show ( two Emmy nominations as journalist Flo Meredith, a role she carried over to a guest appearance on MTM's spinoff Lou Grant ), Rhoda, Alice, Murder One, Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke, Cybill, The Cosby Show, and many other shows.

She befriends her tough but lovable boss Lou Grant ( Edward Asner ), newswriter Murray Slaughter ( Gavin MacLeod ), and buffoonish anchorman Ted Baxter ( Ted Knight ).

He is referred to as " Lou " by everyone, including Mary's friends, with the exception of Mary herself, who can rarely bring herself to call him by his first name rather than " Mr. Grant.

The show spun off three television series: the sitcoms Rhoda ( 1974 – 1978 ) and Phyllis ( 1975 – 1977 ), and the one hour drama Lou Grant ( 1977 – 1982 ).

Horace Silver, Jimmy Smith, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Lou Donaldson, Donald Byrd and Grant Green were among the label's leading artists.

George Butler was now responsible for the label, but despite some good albums, the commercial viability of jazz was in question, and more borderline and outright commercial records were made ( often by artists who had previously recorded " straight " jazz for the label-Bobby Hutcherson, Lou Donaldson, Donald Byrd, Grant Green, Horace Silver ).

However, in 1999, in response to intensifying charges of " back room politics " in the selection process, the Chamber disclosed the members ' names: Johnny Grant, the longtime chair and representative of the television category ; Earl Lestz, president of Paramount Studio Group ( motion pictures ); Stan Spero, retired manager with broadcast stations KMPC and KABC ( radio ); Kate Nelson, owner of the Palace Theatre ( live performance ); and Mary Lou Dudas, vice president of A & M Records ( recording industry ).

* Linda Kelsey, actress in Lou Grant

, members of the North Hanover Township Committee ( with committee assignments listed in parentheses ) are Mayor Jim Durr ( Liaison to County Land Use Office and Small Cities Grant Matters ), Deputy Mayor Mike Moscatiello ( Sub-Standard Housing Commissioner, Military Liaison and Liaison to Administration ), Deb Butler ( Recreation Commissioner and Liaison to Municipal Drug Alliance ), Lou Delorenzo ( Public Works Commissioner, Landfill Commissioner / Recycling Commissioner and Mobile Home Commissioner ) and Bill Tilton ( Police Commissioner, Liaison to Jacobstown Fire Company and COAH Liaison ).

** Lou Grant – CBS

* 1979: Lou Grant – CBS

** Lou Grant – CBS

** Lou Grant – CBS

* " Blue ( And Broken Hearted )" w. Grant Clarke & Edgar Leslie m. Lou Handman

Lou Grant is a fictional character played by Edward Asner in two television series produced by MTM Enterprises for CBS.

A spinoff series, entitled Lou Grant ( 1977 – 1982 ), was an hour-long serious dramatic series which frequently engaged in social commentary, featuring the character as city editor of the fictional Los Angeles Tribune.

Although the setting of The Mary Tyler Moore Show might have implied that he was a native Minnesotan, Lou Grant in fact established that he was born in the fictional town of Goshen, Michigan.

The real Lou Grant was somewhat more complicated.

Asner won five Primetime Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Lou, with three of these awards for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and two for Lou Grant.

Future Lou Grant star Edward Asner guest starred in the episode " The Fourteenth Runner ," for which the story was supplied by that series ' developer Leon Tokatyan.

Members of the Township Council are Council President Luciano " Lou " Signorino ( R, 2013 ), Ada Erik ( R, 2014 ), CarlLa Horton ( R, 2014 ), Michael Ramaglia ( R, 2012 ), Edward Rosone ( R, 2013 ), and Joseph Smolinski ( R, 2012 ).

* " Hula Lou " w. Edward Grossmith m. Ted D. Ward

Courage Under Fire is a 1996 film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips and Matt Damon.

The wedding episode featured guest appearances by many of the main characters from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, including Mary Richards ( Mary Tyler Moore ), Lou Grant ( Edward Asner ), Murray Slaughter ( Gavin MacLeod ), Georgette Franklin ( Georgia Engel ), and Phyllis Lindstrom ( Cloris Leachman ).

During the abdication crisis of the British Monarchy in 1936, Wallis Simpson, the intended bride of King Edward VIII, was staying at the Villa Lou Vieie in Cannes, talking with the King by telephone each day.

St. John was born Jill Arlyn Oppenheim in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Betty Lou ( née Goldberg ) and Edward Oppenheim, who owned a restaurant .< ref >

Edward Asner ( born November 15, 1929 ), commonly known as Ed Asner, is an American film, television, stage, and voice actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant.

* TCM Remembers 1999: Iron Eyes Cody, Betty Lou Gerson, Huntz Hall, Susan Strasberg, film critic Gene Siskel, Richard Kiley, director Stanley Kubrick, Garson Kanin, composer Ernest Gold, Ellen Corby, Charles " Buddy " Rogers, Rory Calhoun, Dirk Bogarde, Oliver Reed, DeForest Kelley, Bobs Watson, director Allan Carr, Sylvia Sidney, screenwriter Mario Puzo, screenwriter Norman Wexler, Ruth Roman, director Edward Dmytryk, director Charles Crichton, Victor Mature, editor Harold F. Kress, George C. Scott, Ian Bannen, Mabel King, Madeline Kahn and Desmond Llewelyn.

* TCM Remembers 2009: Edmund Purdom, Natasha Richardson, Jody McCrea, Ricardo Montalbán, Al Martino, director Robert Mulligan, director Howard Zieff, Pamela Blake, Farrah Fawcett, producer Larry Gelbart, producer Charles H. Schneer, Edward Woodward, Jennifer Jones, Sam Bottoms, Patrick Swayze, Olga San Juan, Paul Burke, screenwriter Horton Foote, Sydney Chaplin, Susanna Foster, director Ken Annakin, cinematographer Jack Cardiff, Beverly Roberts, Kathleen Byron, Dorothy Coonan, producer Daniel Melnick, Jane Bryan, Ron Silver, David Carradine, Richard Todd, Gale Storm, Pat Hingle, Eartha Kitt, Lou Jacobi, Bea Arthur, composer Maurice Jarre, Dom DeLuise, Henry Gibson, screenwriter Budd Schulberg, Claude Berri, writer Dominick Dunne, Betsy Blair, James Whitmore, Joseph Wiseman, Patrick McGoohan, director John Hughes and Karl Malden.

He married Margaret M. Rogers in November 1848 and they had two sons, Edward and Lou.

* 1977: Edward Asner – Lou Grant

** Edward Asner – Lou Grant as Lou Grant

** Edward Asner – Lou Grant as Lou Grant

1971: Edward Asner – The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Lou Grant

* Edward Asner – The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Lou Grant

* Edward Asner – The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Lou Grant

1975: Edward Asner – The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Lou Grant and

Executive producer Edward Boyd's chihuahua Lou is used regularly in segment openings and elsewhere in the show.