Ed Asner on how acting came into the picture for him: “I was a stellar student at Hebrew school and the rabbi had big hopes for me, but I was a grave disappointment to him. I needed to revolt against something, and I revolted against the religion”
Let’s talk about your parents and where you were born.
I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, but raised in Kansas City, Kansas. My parents, God love them, were proprietors of a junkyard.Yes and no. My parents were Orthodox Jews. If you were religious, you were given a Hebrew name. My Hebrew name was Yitzhak, which is Isaac, and it was transliterated into Eddie.. [Asner is joking — this is a Yiddish word for penis.]I was a stellar student at Hebrew school and the rabbi had big hopes for me, but I was a grave disappointment to him.
That was the Playwright’s Theater Club, which later became the Compass Players and eventually The Second City. By that time, though, you had gone to New York. I was getting wonderful reviews in two of the Chicago papers. I took those reviews, collected them and decided to move to New York at the end of ’55 and try to peddle them., which ran from 1970-77, clockwise from top left: Gavin MacLeod, Ed Asner, Ted Knight, Georgia Engel, Mary Tyler Moore and Betty White.Were you primarily hoping to do theater or TV? It was the golden age of TV there.TV, excuse me.
It was coincidental. I just didn’t feel New York had anything planned for me. So I had to try greener fields.
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