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Multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Ed Asner is the only actor to win Emmys for playing the same character in both a comedy ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show," on CBS) and a drama ("Lou Grant," ... on CBS). He is also a recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE is his 11th primetime series.
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Ed Asner is a legend of television, playing the hard-nosed editor with a heart of gold, Lou Grant, on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and later on a spin-off series appropriately titled "Lou Grant." He has been a well-known actor of stage and screen for decades, and has more recently become a prolific voiceover actor as well.
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Ed Asner won five Emmy awards for portraying the character of Mary Tyler Moore's boss Lou Grant in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977), and a crusading newspaperman for the spin-off series Lou Grant (1977-1982). Asner's public persona is ... that of a crusader, a celebrity activist considered left of center. Asner also was a two-term president of the Screen Actors Guild.
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Ed Asner played the heavy-boozing wisecracking sitcom news producer Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Then, in a spin-off series, Lou Grant suddenly kicked the bottle and became a serious editor at a big city newspaper, facing overwrought ethical dilemmas every week. Asner became the only actor to win Emmys for both Comedy and Drama playing the same character.
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In a rare feat, Ed Asner has played the same character ?Lou Grant as both a comic role and a dramatic role. As a supporting player on TV?s The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Asner won two Emmy?s for his comedic performance as the loveably gruff ?Lou Grant,? and he won two more Emmy?s for ?Lou Grant,? the crusading newspaper editor on the dramatic spin-off Lou Grant. Raised in Kansas, the son of Jewish immigrants, Asner faced discrimination because of his Jewish faith that included being blackballed by his high school fraternity. He spent two years at the University of Chicago before entering the Army.
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Ed Asner, the actor that played [if you're old enough to remember] Lou Grant, probably isn't the first person that comes to mind when you hear the words "actor/activist". But since his success, Asner has become an outspoken critic of the US government and its policies at home and abroad. While working on the Lou Grant spin-off of the Mary Tyler Moore show, he publicly decried US involvement in Central America, causing CBS [T]o "coincidentally" cancel his show soon thereafter. Asner had ... been president of the Screen Actors Guild during that time, of which he served for two years.
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