Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy.
So Fuzzy Wuzzy changed his name to Ed Asner".
Eddie "Ed" Asner (Hebrew name Yitzhak, also credited as Edward Asner; November 15, 1929 – August 29, 2021) was an Emmy Award-winning American actor whose career lasted more than six decades. He's perhaps best known for his character Lou Grant, who debuted in The Mary Tyler Moore Show. After the show's run, Asner's character would be given his own show, Lou Grant. This made him one of the few actors to play the same character on both a comedy series and a drama series (and he won Emmys in both categories, a feat that's only happened one other time since with Uzo Aduba). He also served two terms as President of the Screen Actors Guild.
Asner started his voice acting career in 1981, but his roles in voice acting really took off in 1992 when he voiced Hoggish Greedly in Captain Planet and the Planeteers. He would go on from that to role to voice many beloved, if somewhat gruff characters, as well as a plethora of one-shot characters for television, movies, and video games, his most famous recent role probably being Carl Frederickson from Up. (He reprised the role in the Disney+ series Dug Days, which premiered just three days after his passing.)
Productions he has played in:
- 3×3 Eyes: Grandpa Ayanokoji (New Generation Version 2000)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Warden Bragan (in "What Frightened You, Fred?")
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Jack Stander (in "To Catch a Butterfly")
- Arli$$: Lenny Crowley (in "Last Call")
- The Bronx Zoo: Principal Joe Danzig (series star)
- Cade's County: Nick Grainger (in "The Fake")
- The Closer (1998): Carl "Dobbs" Dobson
- Cobra Kai: Sid Weinberg
- CSI: NY: Abraham Klein/Klaus Braun (received an Emmy nomination for their one-time guest star appearance in "Yahrzeit")
- Curb Your Enthusiasm: Mr. Weiner
- Dead to Me: Abe Rifkin (in season 1)
- The Dead Zone: Marty Bracknell (in "Coming Home")
- Dharma & Greg: Earl Tucker
- Dinosaurs: Evil Georgie (regular) (in "Georgie Must Die!")
- Ellen: Santa Claus
- The F.B.I.: John Carl Brock (in "The Tormentors"), Walter Gretzler (in "The Dynasty") and Peter Zacharias (in "The Attorney")
- The Fugitive: Sheriff Mayhew (in "Masquerade"), Roy Malinek (in "Three Cheers for Little Boy Blue") and Joe Bantam (in "Run the Man Down")
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.: George Kramer (in "The Double-O-Nothing Affair")
- Gunsmoke: Seargeant Wilks (in "Hung High") and Jack Redmond (in "The Whispering Tree")
- Hawaii Five-O and Hawaii Five-0 as August March
- The Invaders (1967): Taugus (in "Wall of Crystal") and Harry Ferguson (in "The Miracle")
- Ironside (1967): Marlon Davis (in "The Fourteenth Runner") and Warrant Officer Frank Simpson (in "Not With a Whimper, But a Bang")
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Coach Martin Schultz (in "Monster's Legacy")
- Lou Grant: Lou Grant
- Mad About You: Zigmund Klarik
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Lou Grant
- Mission: Impossible: George Simpson (in "The Mind of Stefan Miklos")
- The Mod Squad: Harry Loring (in "Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot!"), Joe Walton (in "Color of Laughter, Color of Tears") and Sgt. Ed Lassiter (in "The Connection")
- Murdoch Mysteries: Kris Kringle (in "A Merry Murdoch Christmas")
- The Outer Limits (1963): Detective Sgt. Thomas Siroleo (in "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork")
- The Practice: Judge Marcus Winnaker
- The Rat Patrol: Captain Friedrich (in "The Life Against Death Raid")
- Rhoda: Lou Grant
- Route 66: Five different rolesList
- Roots (1977): Captain Thomas Davies
- Royal Pains
- Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: Wilson White
- Thunder Alley: Gil Jones
- The Untouchables: Fedor Bartok (in "The Death Tree"), Jimmy Canada (in "The Night They Shot Santa Claus") and Frank (in "Elegy" and "Search for a Dead Man")
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Brynov (in "The Exile")
- The Wild Wild West: Furman Crotty (in "The Night of the Amnesiac")
- Working Class: Hank Greziak
- The X-Files: Maurice
Film
- All-Star Superman: Perry White
- The Animal: Chief Wilson
- The Bachelor: Sid Gluckman
- Change of Habit: Lt. Moretti
- CarGo: Art
- A Christmas Carol (1997): Jacob Marley
- El Dorado: Bart Jason
- Elf: Santa Claus
- Fort Apache, The Bronx: Capt. Connolly
- Gus: Hank Cooper
- Hard Rain: Uncle Charlie
- I Know That Voice: Himself"Hi. I'm Ed Asner." *switchblade snikt*
- JFK: Guy Banister
- Moon over Parador: Himself
- Muppets Haunted Mansion: Claude
- Our Friend Martin: Mr. Harris
- Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night: Scalawag
- Soul: 22's "Old Man Voice" (uncredited)
- Superman/Batman: Apocalypse: Granny Goodness
- The Satan Bug: Veretti
- They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970): Woody Garfield
- Up: Carl Fredrickson
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules: Grandpa Heffley (his final role)
- Star Wars: Jabba the Hutt
- Knights of the Old Republic: Master Vrook Lamar (in I and II)
- X-Men Legends: Healer
- Adventures from the Book of Virtues: Daniel (in "Faith").
- Animaniacs: Vern (in "Garage Sale of the Century"/"West Side Pigeons").
- Ask the StoryBots: Santa Claus
- Batman: The Animated Series: Roland Daggett.
- Bonkers: Grumps (in "Seems Like Old Toons").
- The Boondocks: Ed Wuncler I
- Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: Fixer (in "The Return of XL")
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Hoggish Greedly
- Central Park: Ambrose Brandenham
- Dug Days: Carl Fredrickson
- Family Guy: Steve Bellows.
- Fish Police: Chief Abalone.
- Freakazoid!: Sgt. Mike Cosgrove.
- Gargoyles: Hudson.
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Mr. Voorhees.
- Johnny Bravo: Dr. Miller / Uncle Lou.
- Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures: Von Romme (in "Nuclear Netherworld")
- Jumanji: The Animated Series: The Judge (in "The Ultimate Weapon" and "The Trial")
- Justice League: Granny Goodness.
- King of the Hill: Stinky.
- The Magic School Bus: General Araneus.
- Max Steel: Chuck Marshak.
- Men in Black: The Series: Additional Voices (in "The Neuralizer Syndrome")
- Olive, the Other Reindeer: Santa Claus.
- Recess: Thaddeus T. Third V (in "The Biggest Trouble Ever").
- Regular Show: Santa Claus.
- Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): Cat.
- The Simpsons: Lifeways editor of the Springfield Shopper (in "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?")
- The Sissy Duckling: Father Duck
- The Spectacular Spider-Man: Uncle Ben Parker.
- Spider-Man: The Animated Series: J. Jonah Jameson.
- Spiderman The New Animated Series: Officer Barr.
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Angry Old Timer (in "Whirly Brains/Mermaid Pants")
- Superman: The Animated Series: Granny Goodness.
- The Wild Thornberrys: Frank Hunter (in "The Anniversary").
- W.I.T.C.H.: Napoleon.
- WordGirl: Kid Potato.
- Young Justice (2010): Kent Nelson / Dr. Fate (in "Denial")
- "People love mean, crabby people who show the soft side, and I guess I've created a career now of developing that aspect."