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Played the gruff newsroom boss Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and then carried the same character into his own spin-off drama, becoming one of the few actors to play one role in both a hit comedy and a hit drama — a run that helped earn him seven Primetime Emmys, more than any male performer. Later generations knew him instead as the voice of the widower Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's Up, still gruff, this time finding warmth.