Ed Asner, 7-time Emmy winner and 'Up' voice actor, dead at 91

File photo of actor Ed Asner and character Carl Fredricksen at the premiere of Disney Pixar's 'Up' in 2009. Asner, the prolific US character actor who became a star in middle age as the gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, first in the hit TV comedy 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' and later in the drama 'Lou Grant', died on August 29, 2021. He was 91. – Photo: AFP

US television actor Ed Asner, winner of a record seven Emmy awards, has died at age 91, his family said Sunday.

"We are sorry to say that our beloved patriarch passed away this morning, peacefully. Words cannot express the sadness we feel," his family wrote on the actor's Twitter account.