Actor Ed Asner has passed at 91. This veteran of TV and film had an extensive, award winning career that also involved leading the Screen Actors Guild. He hit it big with seven glorious years on The Mary Tyler Moore Show followed by five years on Lou Grant winning a slew of Emmy Awards. He guested in shows like The Outer Limits, Police Story, and Hawaii Five 0 (both versions) and collected more Emmy hardware for his roles in Roots and Rich Man Poor Man. He had key roles in films like El Dorado, JFK, and as Santa Claus in Elf and experienced a career resurgence when he voiced the lead character in Up. I met him at the 2013 MidAtlantic Nostalgia Convention and had so many questions in mind and blurted out that I appreciated his work. He smiled and rolled his hand in a fist and bumped my leg. What else could I say?
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