Edward G. Robinson

Acting · 1.7 popularity

Age

132

Movies

133

Born: December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973
From: Bucarest, Roumanie

Biography

Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was a Romanian-born American actor and political activist. Although he played a wide range of characters, he is best remembered for his roles as a gangster, most notably in his star-making film Little Caesar (1931). Robinson's career saw a decline during the 1950s Red Scare when he was threatened with blacklisting. Experiencing underemployment, he turned towards minor roles in B movies until he eventually returned to the mainstream by playing one of Moses' adversaries Dathan in Cecil B. DeMille's religious epic The Ten Commandments (1956). He was ranked number 24 in the American Film Institute's list of the 25 greatest male stars of Classic American cinema. Never having been nominated for an Academy Award during his 60-year career, he became a posthumous recipient of an Honorary Oscar in 1973, two months after his death. Robinson was Jewish and a staunch critic of fascist and Nazi ideologies that were on the rise in the 1930s. He donating more than $250,000 to 850 political and charitable organizations between 1939 and 1949, hosted a gathering at his home to sign a declaration calling for a boycott of all German-made products, frequently appeared at Soviet and American war relief rallies, delivered radio addresses in over six languages to Nazi-occupied European countries, and traveled to Normandy to entertain the troops, becoming the first movie star to go there for the USO. Robin was also an outspoken supporter of the civil rights movement, and regularly campaigned to overcome segregation.

Works

133 films

The Ten Commandments

19567.8

Soylent Green

19736.9

Double Indemnity

19448.1

Mackenna's Gold

19696.6

Key Largo

19487.5

House of Strangers

19497.0

Scarlet Street

19457.6

The Stranger

19467.2

The Cincinnati Kid

19657.0

Robin and the 7 Hoods

19646.2

The Woman in the Window

19447.4

The Prize

19636.7

Cheyenne Autumn

19646.7

The Red House

19476.3

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

19916.5

Neither by Day Nor by Night

197210.0

Little Caesar

19316.9

The Sea Wolf

19417.2

All My Sons

19486.5

Good Neighbor Sam

19646.6

Breakdowns of 1942

19426.0

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

20135.5

Kid Galahad

19377.1

The Night Ride

19309.0

Seven Thieves

19606.6

The Violent Men

19556.5

Breakdowns of 1941

19417.0

Five Star Final

19316.6

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

19756.3

My Geisha

19626.5

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

19837.0

Manpower

19416.5

Vice Squad

19536.2

Frank Capra's American Dream

19976.3

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

19486.8

Flesh and Fantasy

19437.1

Pepe

19606.3

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

20088.5

Rat Pack

20229.0

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

19387.0

The Stolen Jools

19315.6

Two Weeks in Another Town

19625.9

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

19406.5

Smart Money

19316.9

Black Tuesday

19546.2

The Outrage

19645.9

The Last Gangster

19376.4

Breakdowns of 1936

1936

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

19977.7

I Am the Law

19387.1

Big Leaguer

19537.3

Tales of Manhattan

19426.4

Illegal

19556.5

A Hole in the Head

19596.2

Brother Orchid

19406.6

Bullets or Ballots

19366.6

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

19396.1

A Star Is Born World Premiere

19548.0

Larceny, Inc.

19427.1

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

20097.5

Barbary Coast

19356.4

Destroyer

19436.8

Moscow Strikes Back

19425.6

The Whole Town's Talking

19356.9

Two Seconds

19326.3

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

19727.3

The Biggest Bundle of Them All

19685.6

Never a Dull Moment

19686.2

Hell on Frisco Bay

19555.3

A Bullet for Joey

19555.8

Grand Slam

19677.1

Warner at War

20087.0

A Slight Case of Murder

19386.4

From the Ends of the Earth

19395.0

It's a Great Feeling

19496.0

Mr. Winkle Goes to War

19447.1

Breakdowns of 1939

19396.5

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

19457.2

The Old Man Who Cried Wolf

19706.8

Blackmail

19396.9

Tight Spot

19556.5

Sammy Going South

19636.3

Operation Heartbeat

19698.0

It's Your Move

19686.3

The Hatchet Man

19325.4

A Day at Santa Anita

19376.0

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

20086.9

The Widow from Chicago

19306.4

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

19714.8

The Glass Web

19536.3

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

19304.5

A Dispatch from Reuters

19406.3

Tiger Shark

19326.5

Okay for Sound

19466.7

Nightmare

19566.1

Actors and Sin

19526.3

The Man with Two Faces

19346.8

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

20047.0

The Bright Shawl

19237.0

Operation San Pietro

19676.3

The Little Giant

19337.0

Round About Hollywood

19316.0

Pulp Cinema

20019.0

Journey Together

19456.6

Bogart: The Untold Story

1997

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

19366.0

Planet of the Apes Test Reel

1966

Thunder in the City

19376.0

East Is West

19305.3

The Blonde from Peking

19675.7

Dark Hazard

19345.7

Unholy Partners

19417.6

I Loved a Woman

19334.8

Silver Dollar

19326.2

Song of Norway

19705.3

Away with Words

2026

A Lady to Love

19304.5

My Daughter Joy

19509.0

Tampico

19446.7

The Right Man

19606.0

Israel

1959

Blow-Ups of 1947

19476.3

Every Woman's Longing

19308.0

Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero

20057.3

The Hole in the Wall

19295.4

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'

19317.0

Movie Tough Guys

199110.0

Outside the Law

19305.2

A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'

19736.5

The First Gangster and the Last Gangster

1937

Arms and the Woman

1916

Polo with the Stars

19415.3

Born a Man

1965