Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series 1978

30th Primetime Emmy Awards · held September 17, 1978 · 7 nominees

• Winner Ed Asner · Lou Grant
• Winner Ed Asner · Lou Grant
• Nominee Peter Falk · Columbo
• Nominee James Broderick · Family
• Nominee Jack Klugman · Quincy, M.E.
• Nominee James Garner · The Rockford Files
• Nominee Ralph Waite · The Waltons

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