Posted on 08/29/2021 2:08:51 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Ed Asner, who played a gruff newsman for laughs and for drama in the classic TV series “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and its spinoff “Lou Grant” in the 1970s and 1980s and was honored with seven Emmy Awards, died on Sunday at age 91, his family said.
Asner, whose diverse credits also included a key voice role in the acclaimed 2009 animated film “Up,” died at his home surrounded by his family, his publicist told media outlets.
His family confirmed the death on the actor’s Twitter feed, writing, “We are sorry to say that our beloved patriarch passed away this morning peacefully.”
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He's been dead from the neck up since the 1970s.
” but enjoyed his acting.”
LOL!
Will he be buried with his ‘Order of the Red Banner’, for advancing the cause of the USSR against enemies, such as the US?
During his third sex change surgery.
He did some parts at Hallmark so I hope he met some Christians there and turned his life around before he died.
I thought it said ‘Finally” too.
I was silently nodding in agreement. lol!
One less communist in the world
F him
Another commie rat.
Sorry that he died, though, because it’s very unlikely the old commie had a relationship with God.
He wasn’t acting.
Not sure, bu I hear The People’s Cube is printing an Asner Memorial Issue.
He was ok in MTM. Never watched him on the follow up Lou Grant. Only other times I saw him was in bit parts here and there and usually playing someone evil. I was well aware of his politics. Haven’t heard from him in years now. Someone posted on the other thread of him getting the vax in March. Noting else to say. RIP
“He was ok in MTM.”
I saw him live. It was obvious he detested having to perform.
We sat at the next table at dinner and observed his obnoxious behavior.
I won’t he was a crazy ass liberal who ranted against anything conservative.
Meathead!
I like “Spinal Tap,” though.
“You can’t dust for vomit.”
I like his as an actor. hated him as a human being. Another time hate won out in my life.
I thought he died ages ago.
He won’t be missed.
I watched “Lou Grant” but don’t remember it that well. I think Lou was a Ben Bradlee-type editor at a Washington Post-type paper who was riding herd on his young, ambitious Woodward/Bernstein-type reporters and sparring with the Katherine Graham-type owner/publisher who was his boss.
No, he just had an air about him that made one think so.
He was good as Marty DiBergi humoring the idiotic members of Spinal Tap and their angry manager.
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