Ed Asner

Edward "Ed" Asner (born November 15, 1929) is an Emmy award-winning film, television, stage, and voice actor, and a former president of the Screen Actors Guild. He is best known for playing Lou Grant, first on  and then on his own Lou Grant spin-off series, making him one of the few television actors to portray the same leading character in both a comedy and a drama. In the early 1990s, Asner began a prolific second career as a voice-over artist on animated series. His voice work includes such characters as J. Jonah Jameson in the 1990s Spider-Man animated series, Hudson on ', Sergeant Cosgrove on ', and starring as Carl Fredricksen in the film Up.