Edward Asner

Total Box Office:
 $591.1M
Highest Rated:
100% El Dorado (1967)
Lowest Rated:
9% The Bachelor (1999)
Birthday:
Nov 15
Birthplace:
Kansas City, Kansas, USA
Bio:
Raised in the only Jewish family in his neighborhood, American actor Ed Asner grew up having to defend himself both vocally and physically. A born competitor, he played championship football in high school and organized a top-notch basketball team which toured most of liberated Europe. Asner's…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography


MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
The Trial Of Adolph Eichmann
  • Actor
-- 2013
Hopelessly In June
  • Actor
-- 2012
Elephant Sighs
  • Leo Applegate
-- 2012
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
  • Actor
-- 2012
Let Go
  • Artie
-- 2011
Good Men
  • Actor
-- 2011
The Heart Specialist
  • Mr. Olson
$1.1M 2011
All-Star Superman
  • Perry White
-- 2011
Too Big to Fail
  • Warren Buffet
-- 2011
The Barrel of a Gun
  • Actor
-- 2010
Hard Four
  • Actor
-- 2010
88% The Desert Of Forbidden Art
  • Artists' Voices
-- 2010
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
  • Actor
-- 2010
98% Up
  • Carl Fredricksen
$293.0M 2009
93% Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
  • Actor
$0.7M 2009
Missing, Presumed Dead: The Search for America's POWs
  • Actor
-- 2008
Generation Gap
  • Actor
-- 2008
37% Gigantic
  • Mr. Weathersby
-- 2008
Channels
  • Actor
-- 2008
Electile Dysfunction
  • Actor
-- 2008
Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage
  • Actor
-- 2007
Christmas Is Here Again
  • Actor
-- 2007
The Christmas Card
  • Actor
-- 2006
Out of the Woods
  • Actor
-- 2005
89% Sir! No Sir!
  • Actor
-- 2005
Out Of The Woods
  • Jack Green
-- 2005
Island Prey
  • Actor
-- 2005
Hard Four
  • Actor
-- 2005
55% Sleeping Dogs Lie
  • Sheriff Delaney
-- 2004
Whispers of Angels: A Story of the Underground Railroad
  • Actor
-- 2004
Missing, Presumed Dead: The Search for America's POWs
  • Narrator
-- 2004
50% The Oil Factor
  • Narrator
-- 2004
Missing Brendan
  • George Calden
-- 2003
Plan Colombia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure
  • Narrator
-- 2003
Christmas Vacation 2 - Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure
  • Actor
-- 2003
84% Elf
  • Santa
$173.4M 2003
The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay
  • Auggie Sinclair
-- 2002
Here's Looking at You, Kid!
  • Actor
-- 2002
The Man Who Saved Christmas
  • Gilbert Sr.
-- 2002
Great Detective Movies
  • Actor
-- 2002
John XXIII
  • Actor
-- 2002
Island Prey
  • Actor
-- 2001
In Search of Peace - Part One: 1948-1967
  • Actor
-- 2001
30% The Animal
  • Chief Wilson
$54.4M 2001
Above Suspicion
  • Actor
-- 2000
Common Ground
  • Ira
-- 2000
49% The Kid
  • Actor
$68.5M 2000
Bring Him Home
  • Actor
-- 2000
Perfect Game
  • Actor
-- 2000
Celebrating AFI
  • Actor
-- 2000
Olive, the Other Reindeer
  • Santa Claus
-- 2000
Mars and Beyond
  • Actor
-- 2000
Love and Action in Chicago
  • Taylor
-- 1999
Our Friend, Martin
  • Actor
-- 1999
9% The Bachelor
  • Gluckman
-- 1999
Fumbleheads
  • Charlie Atwater
-- 1999
O' Christmas Tree
  • Actor
-- 1999
Story of Santa Claus
  • Actor
-- 1998
O'Christmas Tree
  • Nutcracker
-- 1998
25% Hard Rain
  • Charlie
-- 1998
Payback
  • Jack Patkanis
-- 1997
The Long Way Home
  • Actor
-- 1997
A Christmas Carol
  • Jacob Marley
-- 1997
Spider-Man: Sins of the Fathers
  • Actor
-- 1996
Gone in the Night
  • Det. John Waters
-- 1996
Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press
  • Actor
-- 1996
Celebrating AFI
  • Actor
-- 1995
Golem of L.A.
  • Actor
-- 1995
Heads
  • Ab Abbot
-- 1994
Jewish Holidays Video Guide
  • Actor
-- 1994
Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken
  • Actor
-- 1994
For the Living: The Story of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Actor
-- 1994
40% Gypsy
  • Pop
-- 1993
36% Happily Ever After
  • Scowl
-- 1993
84% JFK
  • Guy Bannister
-- 1992
Cruel Doubt
  • Actor
-- 1992
Switched at Birth
  • Ted Marx
-- 1991
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
  • Edward P. Mitchell
-- 1991
Freedom Is: A Benji and Waldo Adventure
  • Actor
-- 1991
Silent Motive
  • Van Drake
-- 1991
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
  • Harvey Metcalfe
-- 1990
Cops Are Robbers
  • James Quinn
-- 1990
A Friendship in Vienna
  • Oscar Reikman
-- 1988
42% Moon Over Parador
  • Himself
-- 1988
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
  • Scalawag
-- 1987
The Christmas Star
  • Horace McNickle
-- 1986
Katie's Secret
  • Doctor Resnick
-- 1986
Greatest Adventure Stories From the Bible - Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
  • Actor
-- 1986
Hanged on a Twisted Cross: The Life, Convictions and Martyrdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Actor
-- 1986
Less Stress in 5 Easy Steps
  • Actor
-- 1986
AIDS Update - Profile of An Epidemic-Update
  • Actor
-- 1985
43% Daniel
  • Jacob Ascher
-- 1983
Case of Libel
  • Actor
-- 1983
O'Hara's Wife
  • Bob O'Hara
-- 1982
Small Killing
  • Actor
-- 1981
82% Fort Apache, the Bronx
  • Connolly
-- 1981
The Marva Collins Story
  • Narrator
-- 1981
The Good Doctor
  • Actor
-- 1978
Gathering
  • Adam Thornton
-- 1977
Rich Man, Poor Man
  • Axel Jordache
-- 1976
Life and Assassination of the Kingfish
  • Actor
-- 1976
Gus
  • Hank Cooper
-- 1976
Hey, I'm Alive!
  • Ralph Flores
-- 1975
Death Sceam
  • Peter Singleton
-- 1975
The Wrestler
  • Frank Bass
-- 1973
The Girl Most Likely To ...
  • Actor
-- 1973
Haunts of the Very Rich
  • Albert Hunsicker
-- 1972
Todd Killings
  • Fred Reardon
-- 1971
Skin Game
  • Plunkett
-- 1971
They Call It Murder
  • Chief Otto Larkin
-- 1971
60% They Call Me Mister Tibbs
  • Woody Garfield
-- 1970
Halls of Anger
  • McKay
-- 1970
10% Change of Habit
  • Lt. Moretti
-- 1969
Invaders 7
  • Actor
-- 1967
100% El Dorado
  • Bart Jason
-- 1967
Gunn
  • Jacoby
-- 1967
The Venetian Affair
  • Frank Rosenfeld
-- 1967
Doomsday Flight
  • Actor
-- 1966
The Satan Bug
  • Veretti
-- 1965
The Slender Thread
  • Det. Judd Ridley
-- 1965
Outer Limits - "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork"
  • Actor
-- 1964
Kid Galahad
  • Frank Gerson
-- 1962
Dr. Drama
  • Actor
-- 1939
17% The Skin Game
  • Plunkett
-- 1931
Mary Tyler Moore Show, The: The Collector's Edition V. 1
  • Actor
--
Mary Tyler Moore Show - Special Christmas Edition
  • Actor
--
Christmas Classics
  • Actor
--


TV SERIES   

Rating Title Credit Year
CSI: NY
  • Abraham Klein
2004-2013
The Glades
  • Actor
2010-2013
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000-2011
Hawaii Five-0
  • August March
2010-2013
Royal Pains
  • Ted
  • Ted Roth
2009-2013
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999-2013
The Middle
  • Ben
2009-2013

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Quotes from Edward Asner's Characters

    1. Russell: Uh, I thought you were dead.
    From Up. Submitted by June C (28 days ago)
    1. Santa: Sorry Buddy but... your dad is on the naughty list.
    2. Buddy: NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
    From Elf. Submitted by Vic P (8 months ago)
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