Veteran actor Ed Asner, best known for playing acerbic Lou Grant on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”, has died at 91. According to a report in Deadline, Asner was surrounded by family when he passed away peacefully on Sunday morning.
Asner played the gruff-but-lovable newsman in seven seasons of the beloved sitcom, and then reprised the role in the Emmy-winning dramatic series “Lou Grant”, in which the character took a new job as a newspaper editor.
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