Death of Ed Asner, figure of American comedy and voice of the grandpa of Up there

For Americans, Lou Grant, the droll and gruff journalist of the popular series

, will remain forever

.

Comedian Ed Asner died at his home, surrounded by loved ones, on August 29 at the age of 91.

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His family immediately expressed their emotion on the social network Twitter:

Comedy at heart

Born in 1929, Edward Asner had to wait until the end of the 1970s to achieve great notoriety in the United States.

And it was his comedic job in the

, where he would show tremendous earthiness in the recurring role of Lou Grant, that would make Ed Asner one of America's most beloved comedians.

Asner, who had an astonishing perspective on himself and on his career, did not hesitate to describe his state of mind to a Canadian radio station before playing this series which will make him famous.

he confided at the time.

The rest of Ed Asner's career looks like a fairy tale.

As an individual, he will receive three Emmy Awards and the screenplay by

will be crowned, three consecutive times, best comedy series by the Emmy Academy.

Ed Asner was also a committed actor during the 1980s. It was as president of the Screen Actors Guild, the union of Hollywood actors, that he criticized the policies of the Reagan administration in Central America.

Ed Asner's career spanned the twentieth century but continued, happily, into the twenty-first.

Cinephiles will recall that he appeared in

a movie starring Elvis Presley in 1962, and that in 2009, he lent his voice to the grumpy grandpa from Pixar's animated film,

.

He was already eighty years old and still had a smile on his face.

A tribute to the career of Ed Asner