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Legendary Actor Ed Asner, Who Played Lou Grant, Dies At 91

NPR
Published August 30, 2021 at 5:02 AM EDT

The seven-time Emmy award-winning actor first rose to fame in the '70s for his role as a tough-talking newsman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Asner was also featured in Elf and in the movie Up.

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