Edward G. Robinson
Birthday: 1893-12-12
Deathday: 1973-01-26
Birthplace: Bucharest, Romania
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned
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.
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1973-04-18 | Soylent Green | Sol Roth |
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1972-06-01 | Neither by Day Nor by Night | Father |
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1971-12-31 | Mooch Goes to Hollywood | |
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1970-11-04 | Song of Norway | Krogstad |
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1970-10-13 | The Old Man Who Cried Wolf | Emile Pulska |
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1969-04-17 | Operation Heartbeat | Dr. Lee Forestman |
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1969-03-18 | Mackenna's Gold | Old Adams |
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1968-08-10 | It's Your Move | Sir George McDowell |
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1968-06-26 | Never a Dull Moment | Leo Joseph Smooth |
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1968-01-17 | The Biggest Bundle of Them All | Professor Samuels |
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1967-12-29 | Operation San Pietro | Joe Ventura |
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1967-09-28 | Grand Slam | Prof. James Anders |
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1967-08-25 | The Blonde from Peking | CIA Chief Douglas |
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1966-03-01 | Planet of the Apes Test Reel | Dr. Zaius |
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1965-10-15 | The Cincinnati Kid | Lancey Howard |
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1964-10-15 | Cheyenne Autumn | Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz |
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1964-10-07 | The Outrage | Con Man |
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1964-07-22 | Good Neighbor Sam | Simon Nurdlinger |
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1964-06-24 | Robin and the 7 Hoods | Big Jim Stevens (uncredited) |
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1963-12-25 | The Prize | Max Stratman/Walter Stratman |
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1963-03-18 | Sammy Going South | Cocky Wainwright |
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1962-08-17 | Two Weeks in Another Town | Maurice Kruger |
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1962-03-09 | My Geisha | Sam Lewis |
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1960-12-21 | Pepe | Edward G. Robinson |
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1960-03-11 | Seven Thieves | Theo Wilkins |
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1960-01-01 | The Right Man | Theodore Roosevelt |
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1959-09-15 | A Hole in the Head | Mario Manetta |
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1956-10-05 | The Ten Commandments | Dathan |
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1956-08-20 | Nightmare | Rene Bressard |
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1955-12-31 | Hell on Frisco Bay | Victor Amato |
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1955-10-09 | Illegal | Victor Scott |
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1955-04-15 | A Bullet for Joey | Raoul Leduc |
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1955-03-19 | Tight Spot | Lloyd Hallett |
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1955-01-26 | The Violent Men | Lee Wilkison |
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1954-12-31 | Black Tuesday | Vincent Canelli |
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1953-11-11 | The Glass Web | Henry Hayes |
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1953-08-19 | Big Leaguer | John B 'Hans' Lobert |
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1953-07-31 | Vice Squad | Capt. 'Barnie' Barnaby |
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1952-06-18 | Actors and Sin | Maurice Tillayou (segment Actor's Blood) |
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1950-08-21 | My Daughter Joy | George Constantin |
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1949-08-20 | It's a Great Feeling | Edward G. Robinson (uncredited) |
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1949-07-01 | House of Strangers | Gino Monetti |
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1948-08-20 | Night Has a Thousand Eyes | John Triton |
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1948-07-16 | Key Largo | Johnny Rocco |
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1948-05-01 | All My Sons | Joe Keller |
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1947-02-04 | The Red House | Pete Morgan |
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1946-09-07 | Okay for Sound | |
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1946-06-02 | The Stranger | Federal Agent Wilson |
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1945-12-25 | Scarlet Street | Christopher Cross |
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1945-10-01 | Journey Together | Dean McWilliams |
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1945-09-06 | Our Vines Have Tender Grapes | Martinius Jacobson |
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1944-10-25 | The Woman in the Window | Professor Richard Wanley |
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1944-07-19 | Mr. Winkle Goes to War | Wilbert Winkle |
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1944-07-06 | Double Indemnity | Barton Keyes |
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1944-04-10 | Tampico | Capt. Bart Manson |
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1943-10-29 | Flesh and Fantasy | Marshall Tyler (segment 2) |
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1943-08-19 | Destroyer | Steven 'Boley' Boleslavski |
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1942-08-05 | Tales of Manhattan | Larry Browne |
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1942-04-24 | Larceny, Inc. | 'Pressure' Maxwell |
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1941-11-01 | Unholy Partners | Bruce Corey |
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1941-08-09 | Manpower | Hank McHenry |
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1941-03-21 | The Sea Wolf | 'Wolf' Larsen |
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1940-10-19 | A Dispatch from Reuters | Paul Julius Reuter |
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1940-06-07 | Brother Orchid | Little John T. 'Johnny' Sarto |
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1940-02-23 | Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet | Dr. Paul Ehrlich |
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1939-09-08 | Blackmail | John R. Ingram |
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1939-05-06 | Confessions of a Nazi Spy | Edward 'Ed' Renard |
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1938-08-25 | I Am the Law | John Lindsay |
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1938-07-20 | The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Dr. T.S. Clitterhouse |
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1938-02-26 | A Slight Case of Murder | Remy Marko |
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1937-11-12 | The Last Gangster | Joe Krozac |
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1937-05-29 | Kid Galahad | Nick 'Nicky' Donati |
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1937-05-22 | A Day at Santa Anita | Edward G. Robinson (uncredited) |
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1937-04-22 | Thunder in the City | Dan Armstrong |
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1936-06-06 | Bullets or Ballots | Johnny Blake |
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1935-10-13 | Barbary Coast | Luis Chamalis |
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1935-02-22 | The Whole Town's Talking | Arthur Ferguson 'Jonesy' Jones / 'Killer' Mannion |
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1934-08-04 | The Man with Two Faces | Damon Welles / Jules Chautard |
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1934-01-31 | Dark Hazard | Jim 'Buck' Turner |
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1933-09-23 | I Loved a Woman | John Mansfield Hayden |
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1933-05-20 | The Little Giant | James Francis 'Bugs' / 'Jim' Ahearn |
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1932-12-22 | Silver Dollar | Yates Martin |
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1932-09-24 | Tiger Shark | Mike Mascarenhas |
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1932-05-28 | Two Seconds | John Allen |
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1932-02-06 | The Hatchet Man | Wong Low Get |
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1931-09-26 | Five Star Final | Joseph W. Randall |
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1931-06-11 | Smart Money | Nick 'The Barber' Venizelos |
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1931-04-04 | The Stolen Jools | Gangster |
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1931-01-25 | Little Caesar | Caesar Enrico 'Rico' Bandello aka 'Little Caesar' |
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1930-11-23 | The Widow from Chicago | Dominic |
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1930-10-23 | East Is West | Charlie Yong |
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1930-09-18 | Outside the Law | Cobra Collins |
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1930-05-17 | Every Woman's Longing | Tony |
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1930-02-28 | A Lady to Love | Tony |
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1930-01-12 | The Night Ride | Tony Garotta |
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1929-04-27 | The Hole in the Wall | The Fox |
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1923-04-22 | The Bright Shawl | Domingo Escobar |
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1916-11-25 | Arms and the Woman | Factory Worker |