So Long Lou Grant

CNN reports veteran actor Ed Asner has died. He was 91.  Asner portrayed Mary Tyler Moore's gruff but lovable boss Lou Grant, on the Mary Tyler Moore Show.  Asner would later play the same character on "Lou Grant", which was a drama.  He is perhaps the only actor to play the same character in both a comedy and a drama. 

With Asner's death, Betty White is now the only surviving regular character from the Mary Tyler Moore Show.  White is 99..