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.

Asner won the Emmy Award for " Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series " in 1978 and 1980.

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

On March 30, 2012 the Screen Actors Guild ( SAG ) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists ( AFTRA ) completed a merger of equals forming a new union SAG-AFTRA and as a result of this merger a group of actors including Schaal, her former stepmother Valerie Harper, fellow voice actor Michael Bell and actors Edward Asner, Martin Sheen and Ed Harris to name a few immediately filed a lawsuit against SAG President Ken Howard and several SAG Vice Presidents to have the merger overturned and the two unions separated because of their claims that the election held by both the SAG and AFTRA memberships was improper.

His 1960 play Face of a Hero starred Jack Lemmon, Edward Asner, Sandy Dennis, and George Grizzard, but closed after two previews and thirty-six performances.

This production is also notable for having Edward Asner ( as Mr Peachum ), Charlotte Rae as Mrs Peachum, Bea Arthur ( as Lucy ), Jerry Orbach ( as PC Smith, the Street Singer and Mack ), John Astin ( as Readymoney Matt / Matt of the Mint ) and Jerry Stiller ( as Crookfinger Jake ) as members of the cast during its run.

It was directed by Josephine R. Abady and starred Edward Asner and Madeline Kahn, who received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play.

Some of the most famous included Larry Storch, Dallas McKennon ( best known as the voice of Archie in the Archie cartoon and as Cincinnatus, in the Daniel Boone TV series ), Adam West and Burt Ward ( who recreated their roles as " Batman and Robin " from their 1960s live-action series for Filmation's 1977 animated incarnation ), Jane Webb, and good friends and colleagues Ed Asner and Linda Gary ( Gary voiced a majority of Filmation's work in the 1980s ), along with John Erwin ( voice of Reggie Mantle, and later the voice of He-Man ), Alan Oppenheimer ( character actor in TV and film ), Ted Knight, George DiCenzo ( John BlackStar, Hordak, Bow on She-ra ), Melendy Britt, Howard Morris, Pat Fraley, Charlie Adler, Ed Gilbert, Susan Blu, Erika Scheimer ( daughter of Lou Scheimer ), and even Lou Scheimer himself ( either uncredited, or under the pseudonym of " Erik ( sometimes " Eric ") Gunden ").

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.

She received a Prism Award as well as a Gracie Award for her interview show ' Revealed with Jules Asner '.

Prior to joining E !, Asner was an entertainment reporter for Reuters Television, Good Morning England, HCTV, The Entertainment Show on Sky Television, and Extra.

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.

Other TV credits were as Virginia in Emmy Award winning TV Movie " Who WIll Love My Children ," opposite Ann-Margret, " Robert Kennedy and His Times ," as young Pat Kennedy ( with River Phoenix and Chad Lowe ), the ABC After School Special " Just a Regular Kid-An AIDS story " ( with Christian Hoff and Dana Ashbrook ), Danny Thomas ' " One Big Family " ( w / Michael DeLuise ), " Spenser for Hire ," ( w / Robert Ulrich and Ron LcLarty ), " Lou Grant ," ( w / Ed Asner ) the TV Movie " Home Fires " ( w / Guy Boyd and Juliette Lewis ) and the Michael McKean TV Movie, " Town and Gown.

Edward Asner, Davy Jones, Marge Redmond, Madeline Sherwood, Vic Tayback, Daniel J. Travanti and James Sikking ( both known for Hill Street Blues ) also made guest appearances.

The show will be autobiographical, and will revolve around Maron's life as a twice-divorced sober comedian running a comedy podcast out of his garage, with Ed Asner playing his father The pilot shoot for this show was discussed in Episode 183 of WTF with guest Amy Poehler.

He was survived by his sister, Verna B. Willis, Film Editor for MGM Studios, ( hired by Dorothy Asner ) and niece, Ouida L. Burchfield, hat designer, and designer of Christmas decor sold nationally.

The episode featured guest performances by Ed Asner, Tara Charendoff, Hugh Laurie and Alan Shearman, along with several recurring guest voice actors for the series.

In 2009, he wrote an episode of CSI: NY for which acclaimed actor Ed Asner was nominated for an Emmy for Guest Star.

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.

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

* Lou Grant ( Edward Asner ) is the Producer ( later Executive Producer ) of the news.

Lou stomped out, but quickly returned and was then played by Asner.

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 ).

Many notable actors appeared on the series, including Ed Asner, Mary Astor, Roscoe Ates, Gene Barry, Ed Begley, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charles Bronson, Edgar Buchanan, Macdonald Carey, Art Carney, John Cassavetes, Jack Cassidy, Dabney Coleman, Tom Conway, Joseph Cotten, Bob Crane, Hume Cronyn, Robert Culp, Bette Davis, Francis De Sales, Bruce Dern, Brandon deWilde, Angie Dickinson, Diana Dors, Robert Duvall, Denholm Elliott, Peter Falk, John Forsythe, Anne Francis, Lorne Greene, Edmund Gwenn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Herbert, Dame Wendy Hiller, Skip Homeier, Lou Jacobi, Joyce Jameson, Carolyn Jones, Don Keefer, Brian Keith, Jack Klugman, Jessie Royce Landis, Peter Lawford, Christopher Lee, Cloris Leachman, Peter Lorre, John McIntyre, E. G. Marshall, Herbert Marshall, Walter Matthau, Darren McGavin, John McGiver, Lee Majors, Jayne Mansfield, Steve McQueen, Tyler McVey, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Meadows, Vera Miles, Elizabeth Montgomery, Joanna Moore, Roger Moore, Vic Morrow, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Newton, Fess Parker, George Peppard, James Philbrook, Sydney Pollack, Judson Pratt, Robert Redford, Michael Rennie, Burt Reynolds, William Shatner, Dan Sheridan, Henry Silva, Barbara Steele, Jan Sterling, Dean Stockwell, Stella Stevens, Beatrice Straight, Jessica Tandy, Torin Thatcher, Rip Torn, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Vaughn, Richard Waring, Dennis Weaver, Estelle Winwood, Joanne Woodward, Fay Wray, and Keenan Wynn.

* Ed Asner ( The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, JFK )

Lou Grant is an American television drama series starring Ed Asner in the titular role as a newspaper editor.

* 1977: Edward Asner – Lou Grant

** Ed Asner – Lou Grant

* 1979: Ed Asner – Lou Grant

** Edward Asner – Lou Grant as Lou Grant

First season cast: ( left top ) Harper, Asner, Leachman ; ( left bottom ) MacLeod, Moore, Knight.

Last season cast: ( right top ) Knight, MacLeod, Asner ; ( right bottom ) White, Engel, Moore.

* Summary: Norman Gunston's Christmas special includes take off of Blondies ' single " Heart of Glass "; interviews with Karen Black ; Lee Marvin ; hippies in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco ; Leif Garrett ; Elliott Gould ; Henry Winkler ; Ed Asner ; George Segal ; Zsa Zsa Gabor ; Ricky Schroder ; the Bee Gees ; Robert Stigwood.

Supporting actors included Billy Bob Thornton and Ed Asner.

* Granny Goodness appears in a few episodes of the Superman: The Animated Series voiced by Golden Globe Award-winner Edward Asner.

He made his debut in Batman: The Animated Series as a corrupt and powerful businessman, voiced by Golden Globe-winner Edward Asner.

It had three primary hosts over the years: Jules Asner ( 1997 – 1999 ), Brooke Burke ( 1999 – 2002 ), and Cindy Taylor ( 2002 – 2003 ).

In 2004, Asner unofficially reprised the role in a series of ads promoting Twin Cities station KSTP-TV, a real channel in the same market as the fictional WJM-TV.

One of the longer-running police dramas of the day, the series featured appearances by a number of actors, familiar and unfamiliar, among whom were Lynn Borden, Kim Darby, Antonio Fargas, Tiny Tim ( in the pilot TV-movie ), Randolph Mantooth, Cal Bellini, Sharon Gless, Dabbs Greer, Bernie Kopell, Frank Gorshin, Jess Walton, Pernell Roberts, Alan Oppenheimer, Dan Kemp, E. G. Marshall, Harrison Ford, John Schuck, Ingrid Pitt, Susan Saint James, Ivan Dixon, Harry Townes, Pat Hingle, Norman Alden, Anne Francis, David Carradine, Charo, Joseph Campanella, Bill Quinn, Bernard Fox, Tyler McVey, Robert Webber, Alan Hale, Jr., Marion Ross, Marcia Strassman, Susan Sullivan, Suzanne Pleshette, Bo Hopkins, James Hong, Jeanne Cooper, Paul Winfield, Harold Gould, James Farentino, Robert Reed, Bill Bixby, David Cassidy, David Hartman, Dana Elcar, Tina Louise, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Robert Karnes, Tyler MacDuff, Greg Mullavy, Rod Serling, Gene Raymond, Francine York, Peter Mark Richman, Jennifer Gan, Clu Gulager, Joel Grey, Van Williams, John Hoyt, Scott Glenn, William Windom, Joshua Bryant, Dorothy Malone, Robert Alda, Barbara Rush, Jack Kelly, Jason Wingreen, George Takei, George Wallace, John M. Pickard, Diana Muldaur, Jodie Foster, William Katt, Lee Grant, Steve Forrest, Susan Olsen, Michael Lerner, Edward Asner, Eddie Garrett, Darwin Joston, John Rubinstein, Jack Lord, Scott Marlowe, Norman Fell, Gavin MacLeod, Gary Collins, Johnny Seven, William Shatner, Bobby Darin, Martin Sheen, Cheryl Ladd, William Daniels, William Schallert, Burgess Meredith, Vic Tayback, Arch Johnson, James Drury, Ed Flanders, Bruce Lee and Ellen Corby ( Grandma Walton of TV fame ).

Numerous actors, sports figures and former real-life cops who were familiar to audiences in the 1960s and 1970s made appearances on the series, including Andrew Stevens, Danny Bonaduce, Ed Asner, Eve McVeagh, David Janssen, Claude Akins, Robert Stack, Mike Connors, Stuart Whitman, Lenore Kasdorf, David Cassidy, John Saxon, Kurt Russell, Cameron Mitchell, Martin Milner, Vince Edwards, Robert Forster, William Shatner, Dean Stockwell, Jan-Michael Vincent, Alex Cord, George Maharis, Wayne Maunder, Howard Duff, Chad Everett, Don Meredith, Steve Lawrence, Gabe Kaplan, Robert Goulet, Sylvester Stallone, Joseph Campanella, Michael Cole ( 2 episodes ), Joe Garagiola, Stephen Mcnally and Eddie Egan.

Unlike its source however, the series was a drama starring Edward Asner as Grant.

Among the series she hosted were Revealed with Jules Asner, E!

Reportedly, the series had significant enough ratings in its last season to be renewed ( it was in the ACNielsen top ten throughout its final month on the air ), but CBS declined to renew it largely because of controversies created by Asner in using both the series and his presidency of the Screen Actors Guild as political soapboxes.

The character is based on Lou Grant, the character Asner played in the series The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant.