81 and Still Working
Ed Asner one of my favorite television actors is in the buzz on the net. He's a busy actor, at age 81, co-staring in CMT's new sitcom, "Working Class," with Melissa Peterman. Ed Asner is a great TV character actor. I enjoyed watching him in the TV classics series, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Lou Grant." He told the Associated Press that it feels awful good to be working.
Of course playing cranky characters on TV he plays the role off camera too. Quote the Associated Press, when "mention that he's lucky to work when older people can struggle for employment in any field, and he's off and running, (Ed Abner) said,. 'It sucks, doesn't it? I can understand how they don't want to see an old fart in front of the camera, but when they start ruling out directors and cinematographers and producers and writers because they're too old, there's something wrong in the world."
Ed Asner has much praised for the star of the show Melissa Peterman. He said he hasn't "worked with anybody as noble, generous and sharp (as her since he worked with)Mary Tyler Moore,"