Suspects & Witnesses: Complainants & Hostile Witnesses 1956 US Army Training Film; Ed Asner
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Ed Asner plays a hostile witness in “Suspects and Witnesses: Complainants and Hostile Witnesses.” “This U.S. Army training film is a case study for conducting investigations.” Placed in the National Archives from the Central Intelligence Agency.
The lip synch on the original was off to varying degrees in different parts of the original of this film. I did what I could to realign it in several places, but it is not perfect in all places.
US Army Training Film TF19-2443
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
Edward “Ed” Asner (born November 15, 1929) is an American film, television & stage actor, and voice actor and a former president of the Screen Actors Guild. He is primarily known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant during the 1970s and early 1980s, on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series Lou Grant, making him one of the few television actors to portray the same leading character in both a comedy and a drama.
In 2009, he starred as the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar’s award-winning animated film Up. In early 2011, Asner returned to television as butcher Hank Greziak in Working Class, the first original sitcom on cable channel CMT. He starred in the Canadian television series Michael, Tuesdays and Thursdays, on CBC Television and has appeared in the 2013 television series The Glades, in the episode “Killer Barbecue”…
Early life and education
Asner was born in Kansas City, Missouri, His Jewish Russian-born parents, Lizzie (née Seliger, 1885–January 16, 1967), a housewife; and David Morris Asner (1877–May 19, 1957) ran a second-hand shop. He was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family.
Asner attended Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kansas, and the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.
He worked on the assembly line for General Motors. Asner served with the U.S. Army Signal Corps and appeared in plays that toured Army camps in Europe.
Career
Following his military service, Asner joined the Playwrights Theatre Company in Chicago, but left for New York City before members of that company regrouped as the Compass Players in the mid-1950s. He later made guest appearances with the successor to Compass, The Second City, and is considered part of The Second City extended family. In New York City, Asner played Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum in the Broadway revival of Threepenny Opera, and began to make inroads as a television actor. There were two standout performances on television. The first was as Detective Sgt. Thomas Siroleo in the 1963 episode The Outer Limits titled “It Crawled Out of the Woodwork” and as the reprehensible Ex-Premiere Brynov in the 1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode “The Exile”.
Before he landed his role with Mary Tyler Moore, Asner guest-starred in such television series as the syndicated crime drama Decoy, starring Beverly Garland, and the NBC western series The Outlaws. He was also cast on Jack Lord’s ABC drama series Stoney Burke and in the series finale of CBS’s The Reporter, starring Harry Guardino. He also appeared on Mr. Novak, Mission: Impossible,The Invaders. Asner also played a minor character in children’s television show W.I.T.C.H. (Napoleon- Cornelia’s younger sister’s cat).
Asner is best known for his character Lou Grant, who was first introduced on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. In 1977, after the series, Asner’s character was given his own show, Lou Grant (1977–82). In contrast to the Mary Tyler Moore show, a thirty-minute comedy, the Lou Grant show was an hour-long award-winning drama about journalism. (For his role as Grant, Asner is the only actor to win an Emmy Award for a sitcom and a drama for the same role.) Other television series starring Asner in regular roles include Thunder Alley, The Bronx Zoo, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. He also portrayed art smuggler August March in an episode of the original Hawaii Five-O (1975) and reprised the role in the Hawaii Five-0 (2012) remake.
Asner was acclaimed for his role in the ABC miniseries Roots, as Captain Davies, the morally conflicted captain of the Lord Ligonier, the slave ship that brought Kunta Kinte to America. That role earned Asner an Emmy Award, as did the similarly dark role of Axel Jordache in the mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man (1976). In contrast, he played a former Pontiff in the lead role of Papa Giovanni: Ioannes XXIII (Pope John XXIII 2002), an Italian miniseries for RAI.
Asner has also had an extensive voice acting career….
