Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 400 second episode of Awards Chatter, the

Hollywood Reporter's Awards podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg and today's episode is a tribute to the legendary actor Ed

Asner, who died on Sunday at the age of 91.

Asner's death of old age came less than two weeks after I interviewed him for a feature

in our magazine, which we also recorded for this podcast, always intending to run it today.

Sadly, it turned out to be his last interview.

Asner's screen acting career spans 64 years and hundreds of projects,

but he is best known for playing Lou Grant once described by the New York Times as quote,

one of the most endearing characters on television close quote, on both the Mary Tyler Moore show,

the landmark half hour multi-camera comedy series about TV journalism that ran from

1970 through 1977, and on Lou Grant, it's spinoff hour-long single-camera drama series about

newspaper journalism from 1977 through 1982. He won five Emmys between the two shows,

making him one of only two performers ever to have one drama and comedy statuettes for the

same part. Uzoa Duba is the other. Asner's two other Emmys were from massively acclaimed

mini-series, 1976's Rich Man Poor Man and 1977's Roots, making him one of only three performers

ever to have one statuettes for dramatic, comedic, and limited series, the others being a Duba

and Chloris Leachman. And he made fans in younger generations through his work in films like 2003's

Elf and 2009's Up, and on the ongoing Emmy-nominated Netflix comedy series, Cobra Kai.

A 1996 inductee into the television academy's Hall of Fame, he was also active in screen actors

guild politics, serving as the union's president from 1981 through 1985,

in causes for people with intellectual disabilities, as someone with an autistic son and grandson,

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