Ed Asner
1929-2021 · Chicago, IL
Seven-time Emmy winner and Mary Tyler Moore Show star whose training began at Chicago's Playwrights Theatre Club — a Sahlins/Sills precursor to Second City.
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- Member of the Playwrights Theatre Club in Chicago (1953-1954), the direct precursor to the Compass Players.
- Starred as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the spin-off Lou Grant.
- Former president of the Screen Actors Guild.
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