Ed Asner — Actor (73)
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I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!! (2015) WikiData IMDb TMDB
I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!
director: Charlie Tyrell actor: Jonathan Demme / Matt Groening …
This documentary short tells the story of cartoonist David Boswell and his greatest creation: Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman. In the late '70s, David Boswell birthed Reid Fleming, a counterculture icon in the form of a comic book anti-hero. Fast forward to the '80s, Warner Brothers aimed for a Hollywood film. Today, three decades later, Reid Fleming remains stuck in a contractual quagmire. Jonathan Demme, Academy Award-Winner (The Silence of the Lambs, Stop Making Sense), narrates "I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!" This documentary blends stop-motion animation with interviews from Boswell, Hollywood cohorts, and fans, exploring the enduring allure of the indomitable Reid Fleming, the World's Toughest Milkman.
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Elephant Sighs (2012) IMDb TMDB
Elephant Sighs
director: Ed Simpson actor: Ed Asner / John Cariani …
other title: 코끼리의 한숨 / Sem Sentido
After moving to a small rural town, uptight Joel Bixby, is invited by an agreeable new acquaintance to join a group of townsmen who meet in a ramshackle room at the edge of town. Normally a loner, Joel finds himself enamored by boisterous fast-food connoisseur Leo Applegate and reluctantly agrees to go. Unknowingly the replacement for a beloved member who recently passed away, Joel meets the group's other surviving members and is swept into their strange lives, but struggles with their secretive purpose for gathering until he realizes each of them is as lost as himself.
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Donald Duck's 50th Birthday (1984) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
director: Phil Savenick / Andrew Solt actor: Dick Van Dyke / Ed Asner …
other title: Donald Duck – Eine Ente wie du und ich
Donald is shown in both animated and costumed form, interacting with emcee Dick Van Dyke and other cast members. The film not only shows Donald's life, but also depicts an extensive international tour that Donald went on in 1984 as well as showing various celebrities of the day wishing Donald happy birthday. The tour culminates in a parade in Donald's honor at Disneyland.
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Missing Brendan (2004) IMDb TMDB
Missing Brendan
director: Eugene Brady actor: Robin Thomas / Illeana Douglas …
George takes a trip to Vietnam to find his missing son. George's son Bob and Bob's son Patrick accompany George on the trip. George's son, Brendan, has been Missing in Action since the Vietnam War. Julie, an archeologist, joined the search.
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Should've Been Romeo (2012) IMDb TMDB
Should've Been Romeo
director: Marc Bennett actor: Paul Ben-Victor / Ed Asner …
A self-centered, middle-aged pitchman for a potato chip company loses his job and his livelihood just as his octogenarian grandfather is dropped on his doorstep unexpectedly by his mother on her way to a singles cruise.
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Americas in Transition (1982) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Americas in Transition
director: Obie Benz actor: Ed Asner
other title: 美國的轉型
Americas in Transition provides a concise and fast-paced history of the volatile forces that rocked Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing on interviews with the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, former CIA director Lyman Kirkpatrick, former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Murat Williams, and Maryknoll missioner Peggy Healy, the film examines the roots of dictatorship, attempts at democracy, communist influences, and the U.S. role in Latin American politics. Americas in Transition remains the best introduction to U.S. relations with Latin America, and the underlying causes of unrest there. 1981 Academy Award Nominee, Best Short Documentary.
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The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror (2005) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror
director: Audrey Brohy / Gerard Ungerman actor: Ed Asner / Michael Ruppert
other title: The Oil Factor / 石油因素
Examines the link between oil interests and current U.S. military interventions. It includes original footage shot over a four-month period in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan as well as many interviews with a large array of personalities including Bush administration officials.
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Night of 100 Stars II (1985) IMDb TMDB
Night of 100 Stars II
director: Clark Jones actor: Debbie Allen / Peter Allen …
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
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The Gathering (1977) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Gathering
director: Randal Kleiser actor: Ed Asner / Maureen Stapleton …
When Adam Thornton learns that he only has a little time left, he decides that he wants to make peace with his family. Only problem is that most of his family are not exactly fond of him because he walked out on his wife and of his stubborn nature and he hasn't spoken to his youngest son after having an argument with him which he was in the wrong but only realize after his son left and has not been heard from since. But he goes to her to help him find him. But when his doctor says that it won't be good for him to travel, she suggests that they invite them all for Christmas. While most of them come, Adam's attempt at reconciliation won't be easy.
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Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (1990) IMDb TMDB
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
director: Clive Donner actor: Ed Begley Jr. / Brian Protheroe …
other title: Es ist nicht alles Gold, was glänzt
Four victims of a stock swindle meet and plot to get their money back from the crooked financier responsible. Each man, an Oxford professor, a Harley Street physician, an art dealer and a British aristocrat deploy their individual talents in elaborate stings to get back "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less"
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The Man Who Saved Christmas (2002) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Man Who Saved Christmas
director: Sturla Gunnarsson actor: Jason Alexander / Kelly Rowan …
other title: 더 맨 후 세이브드 크리스마스 / Der Mann der Weihnachten rettete …
Alfred Carlton Gilbert invented the Erector Set and is trying to get it onto the toy shelves of the country. A.C. is startled to be summoned to the White House, where top officials ask him to convert the toy factory into a weapons manufacturing company for the duration of the war. "No" is really not an option, for fear of being labeled unpatriotic so the switch is made. Later, government officials ask A.C. to be their spokesman for a campaign to avoid "toy giving" for the coming holidays and buy war bonds instead. With a young son himself, who looks forward to Christmas like any other child, what will A.C. do this time?