Ed Asner, actor. Born: 15 November 1929 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Died: 29 August 2021 in Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, United States, aged 91Ed Asner, the burly and prolific character actor who became a star in middle age as the gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, first in the hit comedy The Mary Tyler Moore Show and later in the drama Lou Grant, has died aged 91.
Built like the American football lineman he once was, the balding Asner was a journeyman actor in films and TV when he was hired in 1970 to play Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
For seven seasons he was the rumpled boss to Moore's ebullient Mary Richards (He called her "Mary," she called him "Mr Grant") at the fictional Minneapolis TV newsroom where.
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