Ed Asner

In April 2004, he wrote an open letter to "peace and justice leaders" encouraging them to demand "full 9-11 truth" through an organization called the "9-11 Visibility Project.". His daughter, Shari Belafonte, is a photographer, model and actress. Asner served as the spokesman for 2004 Racism Watch. He has won a Grammy Award in 1985 for lifetime achievement and has been made a UNICEF goodwill ambassador. He has also been active in a variety of other causes, such as the movement to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, and is a prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. At the end of the 1940s he took classes in acting and subsequently received a Tony Award for his participation in John Murray Anderson's Almanac. A vocal leftist, Asner served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild, where he controversially opposed U.S. policy in Central America until he was ousted and succeeded by Charlton Heston. When he returned to New York he attended George Washington High school after which he joined the navy and served during the second world war.

Jonah Jameson on the 1990's Spider-Man series, Hudson on Gargoyles, Master Vrook from the Star Wars video game Knights of the Old Republic, Roland Daggett on Batman: The Animated Series, and Cosgrove on Freakazoid. From 1935 to 1939 he lived with his mother in her homeland Jamaica. He provided the voices for J. Belafonte has gained notoriety for his left wing political views and has called both United States Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice "house slaves". Asner has also had an extensive career in voice over work for animated projects. He appeared on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and performed a controversial "Mardi Gras" number with footage intercut from the 1968 Democratic National Convention riots. Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929 in Kansas City, Kansas) is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and later continued in a spinoff series, Lou Grant. He was the first African-American to win an Emmy, with his first solo TV special “tonight with Belafonte”.

His breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first album to sell over 1 million copies. He is perhaps best known for singing the "Banana Boat Song" with its signature lyric "Day-O". Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Belafonte on March 1, 1927) is a Harlem-born calypso musician and actor who used his fame as an entertainer in the cause of human rights.