FrameThrower · Actors · Ed Asner
Ed Asner
5 films · 479 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1982–2009
Born 15 November 1929 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA · died 29 August 2021
Edward Asner, commonly known as Ed Asner, was an American film, television, stage, and voice actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant. In 2009, he starred as the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's award-winning animated film, Up. In early 2011, Asner returned to television as butcher Hank Greziak in Working Class, the first original sitcom on cable channel CMT.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 479 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1982–2009
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama1980
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama1978
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film1977
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film1976
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film1972
- Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series1980
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series1978
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series1976
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series1975
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series1972
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series1971
How their films are shot
Measured across 479 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ed takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 60% of their frames are day, 72% natural — the look of the work Ed takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 479 frames from Ed Asner's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.