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The quaint Studio City residence where actor Ed Asner made his home for more than a decade has sold for $1.955 million, or $107,000 more than the asking price.

Asner bought the 1956 ranch-style house in 1996 for $540,000 and lived there until 2013, when he sold the place for $1.306 million. Since then, it changed hands once more, selling two years ago for about $1.53 million, records show.

Though extensively updated since the actor’s ownership, the two-story home retains such character details as used brick, vaulted ceilings and French doors with arched transoms. Within some 2,800 square feet of interior are a formal living/dining room, an office and a center-island kitchen.

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The master suite has a room for a sitting area, a fireplace and a cedar-lined walk-in closet for a total of three bedrooms and three bathrooms.

Outside, brick patio surrounds a circular spa and swimming pool. A small fruit tree grove and an herb/vegetable garden lie in the side yard.

The property hit the market in June and sold in about a month, records show.

Dennis Chernov and Kevin Silver of Keller Williams Realty, Studio City, had the listing. Peter Lorimer of PLG Estates represented the buyer.

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Asner, 89, has stayed busy this year, appearing in the films “Faith, Hope & Love” and “The Garden Left Behind” as well as the television shows “Doom Patrol” and “Dead to Me.” The seven-time Emmy winner played Lou Grant in the 1970s sitcom “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and in a spinoff newspaper drama.

He served as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1981-85.