As of now, Ed Asner is at the top of the ranking of male performers with the most Emmy Award wins ever with seven wins in total.
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Ed Asner is the most honoured male performer in the history of the Primetime Emmy Awards, having won seven – five for portraying Lou Grant (three as Supporting Actor in a Comedy Television Series on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and two as Lead Actor in a Dramatic Television Series on spin-off Lou Grant).
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Ed Asner was an American actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild best known for portraying the character Lou Grant during the 1970s and early 1980s.
In New York City, Ed Asner scored his first Broadway role in Face of a Hero alongside Jack Lemmon in 1960. As a television actor, Ed Asner made his TV debut in 1957 on Studio One.
For his performance in Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), Ed Asner won the Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Performance in a television series award.
In 2001, Ed Asner was the recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 1996, Ed Asner was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame.


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