At the Trib, the formerly comic Lou (still played by Ed Asner) got serious about news. What resulted was “Lou Grant,” a superlative drama series that premiered 30 years ago this fall.

If anyone ever writes a book about the history of religion news in the mainstream press, it will need to include a photo of the glowering, and often smirking, mug of Lou Grant.

Then Mary's crusty boss, station news director Lou Grant, made a smooth transition. Within weeks, he had blown Minneapolis and snagged a good job in Los Angeles as city editor of The Tribune. ...

Lou Grant, award-winning political cartoonist for the Oakland Tribune and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate whose caricatures grace the National Archives and the libraries of presidents he skewered ...

NEW YORK — When everyone but idiotic anchorman Ted Baxter was fired from WJM News in 1977, Mary Richards and her fellow casualties were left reeling. It was a classically bittersweet finale for ...

Ed Asner, the burly and prolific character actor who became a star in middle age as the gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, first in the hit comedy "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and later in the ...

news Obituaries. Actor Ed Asner, TV’s blustery Lou Grant, dies at 91 Built like the football lineman he once was, the balding Asner was a journeyman actor in films and TV when he was hired in ...

Gene Reynolds, known for his writing, directing and producing for the 1970s TV shows “MASH” and “Lou Grant,” has died. He was 96.

If anyone ever writes a book about the history of religion news in the mainstream press, it will need to include a photo of the glowering, and often smirking, mug of Lou Grant. Lou Grant was a TV ...

LOS ANGELES — Ed Asner, the burly and prolific character actor who became a star in middle age as the gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, first in the hit comedy “The Mary Tyler Moore Show ...

If anyone ever writes a book about the history of religion news in the mainstream press, it will need to include a photo of the glowering, and often smirking, mug of Lou Grant. Lou Grant was a TV ...