Ed Asner — Dead At 91

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Ed Asner — star of ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show’ and ‘Lou Grant’ — dead at 91

He was most famous for playing on he Mary Tyler Moore show. For you younger folks, that was where Betty White became a TV star . Asner did a few movies and Made for TYV movies: but over the past few decades he did a boat load of Voice over work for cartoons and Anime

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Ed Wuncler my personal favorite character he played
 

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Yet another one of those actors who I thought actually died years ago. But I'm old enough (unfortunately :() to have regularly watched some the shows he was in, including "Lou Grant"; not the least of which because I used to have a crush on Linda Kelsey considering it was during a time period when let's just say I started to look at girls in a whole new way.
 

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For most of us who grew-up watched reruns of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ed Asner was the gruff, but lovable news director Lou Grant of fictional WJM-TV, a perpetually low-rated Minneapolis local news show anchored by Ted Baxter (Ted Knight.) Ed Asner's on-air personality may have been influenced in no small part from being placed in untenable positions between a spunky, talented young female (Mary Tyler Moore) and a pompous, vain, intellectually vacuous anchor who was more concerned with his appearance than what was going-out on-air. Clearly a show with a one-in-a-million ensemble cast.

In this episode Lou Grant becomes frustrated when station management orders him to lighten-up the evening news with more comedic interaction. When he protests, Mary is put in-charge of producing happy news. :grinning: Naturally it becomes a serendipitous opportunity for Ted Baxter to showcase his talent as a standup comedian-- and to insult every ethnic group within the TV station's signal. :eek:
 

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For most of us who grew-up watched reruns of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ed Asner was the gruff, but lovable news director Lou Grant of fictional WJM-TV, a perpetually low-rated Minneapolis local news show anchored by Ted Baxter (Ted Knight.) Ed Asner's on-air personality may have been influenced in no small part from being placed in untenable positions between a spunky, talented young female (Mary Tyler Moore) and a pompous, vain, intellectually vacuous anchor who was more concerned with his appearance than what was going-out on-air. Clearly a show with a one-in-a-million ensemble cast.

In this episode Lou Grant becomes frustrated when station management orders him to lighten-up the evening news with more comedic interaction. When he protests, Mary is put in-charge of producing happy news. :grinning: Naturally it becomes a serendipitous opportunity for Ted Baxter to showcase his talent as a standup comedian-- and to insult every ethnic group within the TV station's signal. :eek:

Rhoda, got a spin off show,

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