Ed Asner
Current Interest
2.7
Current interest in this person
Rating Distribution
Based on 162 rated titles
Title
Year
Attention
Up
as Carl Fredricksen (voice)
2009
54.7
Elf
as Santa
2003
51.1
M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters
as Dr. Howard Arden
2020
43.7
El Dorado
as Bart Jason
1966
43.5
Too Big to Fail
as Warren Buffett
2011
43.5
The Animal
as Chief Wilson
2001
42.9
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
as Mr. Carson
2012
42.4
Hard Rain
as Uncle Charlie
1998
42.4
The Girl Most Likely To...
as Det. Ralph Varone
1973
42.1
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
as Granny Goodness (voice)
2010
39.9
Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure
as Uncle Nick
2003
39.7
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
as Grandpa Heffley (voice)
2022
39.0
Foodfight!
as Mr. Leonard (voice)
2012
37.1
Muppets Haunted Mansion
as Ghost of Claude
2021
37.0
The Bachelor
as Gluckman
1999
36.9
All Star Superman
as Perry White (voice)
2011
36.0
Fort Apache, the Bronx
as Connolly
1981
34.1
Carl's Date
as Carl (voice)
2023
33.5
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
as Woody Garfield
1970
30.1
Happily Ever After
as Scowl the Owl (voice)
1989
29.3
I Know That Voice
as Self
2014
27.9
Olive, the Other Reindeer
as Santa Claus (voice)
1999
27.7
Dug's Special Mission
as Carl Fredricksen (voice) (uncredited)
2009
27.3
Being Mary Tyler Moore
as Self (voice)
2023
26.7
Christmas Cottage
as Sidney
2008
25.1
The Satan Bug
as Henchman Veretti
1965
24.5
Kid Galahad
as Assistant District Attorney Frank Gerson (uncredited)
1962
23.7
Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken
as Hudson (voice)
1995
22.4
Our Friend, Martin
as Mr. Harris (voice)
1999
22.1
The Christmas Card
as Luke Spelman
2006
21.7
Faith, Hope & Love
as Harry Karetas
2019
21.7
Gargoyles
as Hudson (voice)
1994
21.3
Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas
as Santa (voice)
2014
20.5
The Slender Thread
as Det. Judd Ridley
1965
20.4
The Long Way Home
as George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice)
1997
20.2
Super Sex
as George
2016
19.6
Change of Habit
as Lt. Moretti
1969
19.4
A Christmas Carol
as Marley (voice)
1997
18.8
Gus
as Hank Cooper
1976
18.6
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
as Lou Grant
1970
18.3
The Games Maker
as Nicholas Drago
2014
17.3
Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
as J. Jonah Jameson
2005
16.4
Spider-Man
as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
1994
16.3
Gigantic
as Kirby Weathersby
2008
16.1
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
15.6
The Gettysburg Address
as Edward Everett (voice)
2025
15.5
Spider-Man: The Ultimate Villain Showdown
as J. Jonah Jameson
2002
15.4
O'Hara's Wife
as Bob O'Hara
1982
15.3
Daredevil vs. Spider-Man
as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
2003
15.2
All of My Heart
as Vern
2015
15.2
Skin Game
as Plunkett
1971
15.0
All of My Heart: Inn Love
as Vern
2017
14.5
Christmas Is Here Again
as Krad (voice)
2007
14.5
CarGo: The City on 4 Wheels!
as Arthur (voice)
2017
14.4
Yamasong: March of the Hollows
as Elder Pyreez (voice)
2017
14.4
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
as Dr. Morheim
1970
14.1
And the Winner Isn't
as Self
2017
13.7
Let Go
as Artie
2011
13.5
Island Prey
as Jay Roth
2001
13.5
Axel: The Biggest Little Hero
as Bonta / Narrator (voice)
2013
13.2
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
as Self
1993
12.7
Love Finds You in Valentine
as Gabriel Morgan
2016
12.6
All of My Heart: The Wedding
as Vern
2018
12.1
Daniel
as Jacob Ascher
1983
11.6
The Parting Glass
as Tommy
2018
11.6
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
as Self / Lou Grant (archive footage)
2015
11.5
Gypsy
as Charles Thompson
1993
11.1Captain Daddy
as Grampa (voice)
2021
10.9
Olympia
as Himself
2018
10.9
The Man Who Saved Christmas
as Charles Gilbert
2002
10.7
Absolute Killers
2011
10.5
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
10.3
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
as Edward P. Mitchell
1991
10.1
Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting
as Jefferson
2018
9.7
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
as Self
2004
9.7
Freakazoid!
as Sgt. Cosgrove (voice)
1995
9.7
Second Chances
as Chief Buddy
2013
9.7
Casting By
as Self
2012
9.6
Should've Been Romeo
as Charlie
2012
9.6
The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay
as Augie Sinclair
2003
9.1
Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock
as J Jonah Jameson
2004
9.0
Altered Reality
as Mike Wilson
2024
9.0
Out of the Woods
as Jack Green
2005
8.7Scarlett
2021
8.7
SEVEN
2020
8.7
Kate's Secret
as Dr. Resnick
1986
8.6
Common Ground
as Ira
2000
7.9Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
as Self
2012
7.6
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
as Dr. Robert Servatius (voice)
1997
7.5
A Merry Murdoch Christmas
as Kris Kringle
2015
7.4
I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!
as Himself
2015
7.4
The Desert of Forbidden Art
as Voice
2011
7.0
Christmas on the Bayou
as Papa Noel
2013
6.8
The Garden Left Behind
as Dr. Cleary
2020
6.3
Sir! No Sir!
as Col. Heinl
2005
6.1
The Venetian Affair
as Frank Rosenfeld
1967
6.1
Gahan Wilson's The Kid
as Dead Cat
2001
5.8
Daughter of the Mind
as Saul Wiener
1969
5.6
A Friendship in Vienna
as Opah Oskar Reikman
1988
5.5
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
as Self
2016
5.5
The Nutcracker Sweet
as Owl (voice)
2015
4.9
Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas!
as Santa
2017
4.4
The Doomsday Flight
as Feldman
1966
4.2
Gunn
as Lt. Jacoby
1967
4.1
Down on the Waterfront
1994
4.1
Waiting in the Wings: The Musical
as Jefferson
2014
3.7
The Story of Santa Claus
as Santa Claus (voice)
1996
3.7
Christmas Dreams
as Jerry
2009
3.6
Framed: The Adventures of Zion Man
as Adult Walter (voice)
2017
3.3
Channels
as Ed Packard
2008
3.2
The Sissy Duckling
as Father Duck (voice)
1999
3.1
Perfect Game
as Billy Hicks
2000
2.9
The Christmas Star
as Horace McNickle
1986
2.9
A StoryBots Christmas
as Santa
2017
2.8
Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
as Joshua (voice)
1986
2.7
Not Another B Movie
as Angry Investor
2011
2.6
Pope John XXIII
as Angelo Roncalli
2002
2.5
The Last Child
as Barstow
1971
2.4
Rain Beau's End
as Gunny
2020
2.2
The Gathering
as Adam
1977
2.1
Saving Christmas
as Rick
2017
2.0
Crab Orchard
2005
1.9
The Wrestler
as Frank Bass
1974
1.9
Joe's War
as Harry
2017
1.6
Generation Gap
as Bart Cahill
2008
1.4
Becoming Dick
as Davis Aldrich
2000
1.1
Above Suspicion
as Thomas O'Claire
2000
1.1
Halls of Anger
as Ernie McKay
1970
1.0
Honor Amongst Men
as Pop Halmo
2018
1.0
Getting Ed Laid
as Ed Randall
2016
0.9
O' Christmas Tree
as Nutcracker (voice)
1999
0.8
The Commission
as Capt. J.W. 'Will' Fritz
2003
0.8The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion
as Self
2002
0.8
Hard Four
as Golden Hands Segal
2007
0.7
Payback
as Jack Patkanis
1997
0.7
Elephant Sighs
as Leo
2012
0.6
Missing Brendan
as George Calden
2004
0.6
Audrey
as Walt
2014
0.6
Dug Days
as Carl (voice)
2021
0.5Electile Dysfunction: Inside the Business of American Campaigns
2008
0.5
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
as Narrator
2005
0.4
Good Men
as Morty
2011
0.4
Frozen in Time
as Grandpa (voice)
2014
0.4
Fanfare for a Death Scene
as Pike
1964
0.4
Bring Him Home
as Geza
2000
0.2
Hopelessly in June
as Rabbi
2011
0.2Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom
as Self
2000
0.2
Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union
as Narrator (Voice)
2008
0.2
In Vino
as Charles
2019
0.2
LA DA Story
as Self (archive footage)
2018
0.2Blood
as The Prophet
2021
0.1The New Girl
as Kurt Harden
1960
0.1Sleeping Dogs Lie
as Sheriff Delaney
2005
0.1
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror
as Himself
2005
0.1
In Search of Peace
as David Ben Gurion (voice)
2001
0.1
Identical
as Yaakov Washington
2011
0.1
Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure
as Narrator (voice)
2003
0.1Hanged on a Twisted Cross
as Narrator
1996
0.1
Liberator
as President Whitlock
2012
0.1
Love Meet Hope
as Mr. James
2016
0.1
Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII
as Jean XXIII
2002
0.1The Triumph of William Henry Harrison
2010
0.1
Tiger Within
as Samuel
2020
0.1
The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It
as Narrator
2002
0.1The Rich Have Their Own Photographers
2007
0.1From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
2007
0.1
Autism and Cake
as Fred
2012
0.1The True Story of the Amityville Murders: From Homicide to Horror
as Narrator
2011
0.1American Road
as Walt Whitman
2013
0.1Frequently Asked Questions About Ed Asner
Ed Asner has appeared in 169 titles, including 164 movies and 5 television shows.
The earliest title currently listed in Ed Asner's filmography is The New Girl (1960).
The most recent title featuring Ed Asner is The Gettysburg Address (2025).
One of the highest rated titles featuring Ed Asner is Full Blossom: The Life of Poet/Actor Roberts Blossom with an IMDb rating of 9.
Ed Asner has been active for approximately 65 years, with credits spanning from 1960 to 2025.
Titles featuring Ed Asner currently have an average IMDb rating of 6.3.
The busiest years in Ed Asner's career include 2011, 2017, 2012.
