Edward Asner - Personal Life

Personal Life

Asner was married to Nancy Sykes from 1959 until 1988. Together they have three children: twins Matthew and Liza, and Kate. In 1987, he had a son named Charles with Carol Jean Vogelman. Asner is a parent and a grandparent of a child with autism and is deeply involved with the autism nonprofit Autism Speaks. He also serves on the advisory board of a suburban Chicago firm that employs persons with autistic spectrum disorders to test and program software.

Engaged to producer Cindy Gilmore in 1991, he married her on August 2, 1998. Gilmore filed for divorce on November 7, 2007. Model and television personality Jules Asner is his former daughter-in-law. Gavin Newsom, his ex-nephew-in-law, was a former mayor of San Francisco and is the current Lieutenant Governor of California.


  • The Murder Men (1961);
  • The Slender Thread - Det. Judd Ridley (1965);
  • El Dorado - Bart Jason (1967);
  • Change of Habit - Police Officer (1969);
  • The Girl Most Likely to... - Det. Ralph Varone (1973):
  • Hey, I'm Alive – Ralph Flores (1975):
  • Gus - Hank Cooper (1976);
  • Fort Apache, The Bronx - Captain Dennis Connolly (1981);
  • Americas in Transition (1981) (narrator);
  • O'Hara's Wife - Bob O'Hara (1982);
  • Moon over Parador (1988) (Himself);
  • The Cops Are Robbers - (1990):
  • JFK - Guy Banister, CIA/FBI operative (1991);
  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1995) (Bruno);
  • Hard Rain - Uncle Charlie (1998);
  • The Bachelor - Sid Gluckman (1999);
  • The Animal - Chief Wilson (2001);
  • The Man Who Saved Christmas (2002);
  • Elf - Santa Claus (2003);
  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure - Uncle Nick (2003);
  • Happily Even After - Judge Dreyfus (uncredited) (2004);
  • Out of the Woods - Jack (2005);
  • The Christmas Card - Luke Spelman (2006);
  • The Heart Specialist - Mr. Olson (2006);
  • Gigantic - (2008);
  • Christmas Is Here Again - Krad (2008);
  • Generation Gap - Colonel Bart Cahill (2008);
  • Channels (2008 film) - Ed Packard;
  • Up - Carl Fredricksen (2009);
  • Stride - Charlie Arnesson (2009);
  • The Raft - Seymour Popper (2009);
  • Sheeba - Grandfather (2011);
  • Too Big to Fail - Warren Buffett (2011);
  • Not Another B Movie - Angry Investor (2011).

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