Remembering Ed Asner-- Part 5: 'Up'

The Voice of Carl Fredericksen in "Up"

Ed Asner voiced the cranky Carl Fredericksen -- a widower who tries hoisting his house into the air with exactly 20,622 helium balloons -- in Pixar's Oscar-winning 2009 tearjerker "Up."

"Instead of a Clint Eastwood-type senior citizen who is fitter than people half his age, 'Up' gives us a man who uses a walker and can't handle stairs but still manages to be heroic when it counts," wrote former Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan.  

"And 'Up's' multiminute montage of the long married life of Carl and his wife Ellie, is a small gem that will stay with you for a lifetime."

The animation studio tweeted that Asner was "our real life Carl Fredericksen: a vaneer of grouch over an incredibly loving and kind human being."

--Cooter