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

The Cincinnati Kid

19657.0

House of Strangers

19497.0

The Stranger

19467.2

Robin and the 7 Hoods

19646.2

The Red House

19476.3

The Night Ride

19309.0

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

20135.5

Cheyenne Autumn

19646.7

Scarlet Street

19457.6

The Prize

19636.7

All My Sons

19486.5

The Woman in the Window

19447.4

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

19916.5

Good Neighbor Sam

19646.6

My Geisha

19626.5

The Sea Wolf

19417.2

The Violent Men

19556.5

Seven Thieves

19606.6

Frank Capra's American Dream

19976.3

Flesh and Fantasy

19437.1

Little Caesar

19316.9

Kid Galahad

19377.1

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

19387.0

Vice Squad

19536.2

Neither by Day Nor by Night

197210.0

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

19756.3

Two Weeks in Another Town

19625.9

Breakdowns of 1936

1936

Pepe

19606.3

A Hole in the Head

19596.2

Five Star Final

19316.6

The Biggest Bundle of Them All

19685.6

Manpower

19416.5

The Last Gangster

19376.4

Breakdowns of 1942

19426.0

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

19837.0

Breakdowns of 1941

19417.0

I Am the Law

19387.1

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

19406.5

Rat Pack

20229.0

Bullets or Ballots

19366.6

Barbary Coast

19356.4

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

19396.1

The Outrage

19645.9

Big Leaguer

19537.3

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

19977.7

Smart Money

19316.9

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

19727.3

Larceny, Inc.

19427.1

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

19486.8

The Whole Town's Talking

19356.9

The Stolen Jools

19315.6

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

20097.5

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

20088.5

Destroyer

19436.8

Illegal

19556.5

Black Tuesday

19546.2

Actors and Sin

19526.3

A Bullet for Joey

19555.8

Two Seconds

19326.3

A Star Is Born World Premiere

19548.0

Moscow Strikes Back

19425.6

Brother Orchid

19406.6

It's a Great Feeling

19496.0

Operation Heartbeat

19698.0

Tight Spot

19556.5

A Slight Case of Murder

19386.4

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

19714.8

The Old Man Who Cried Wolf

19706.8

Sammy Going South

19636.3

Tales of Manhattan

19426.4

Warner at War

20087.0

Mr. Winkle Goes to War

19447.1

It's Your Move

19686.3

Bogart: The Untold Story

1997

Breakdowns of 1939

19396.5

Nightmare

19566.1

Hell on Frisco Bay

19555.3

Grand Slam

19677.1

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

19366.0

Never a Dull Moment

19686.2

A Dispatch from Reuters

19406.3

From the Ends of the Earth

19395.0

Operation San Pietro

19676.3

The Hatchet Man

19325.4

Journey Together

19456.6

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

20086.9

A Lady to Love

19304.5

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

20047.0

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

19457.2

A Day at Santa Anita

19376.0

Planet of the Apes Test Reel

1966

The Right Man

19606.0

The Bright Shawl

19237.0

The Little Giant

19337.0

The Blonde from Peking

19675.7

Pulp Cinema

20019.0

Blackmail

19396.9

The Glass Web

19536.3

Tiger Shark

19326.5

My Daughter Joy

19509.0

Away with Words

2026

The Man with Two Faces

19346.8

Blow-Ups of 1947

19476.3

Israel

1959

Round About Hollywood

19316.0

Song of Norway

19705.3

Thunder in the City

19376.0

Silver Dollar

19326.2

The Widow from Chicago

19306.4

Every Woman's Longing

19308.0

The Hole in the Wall

19295.4

Dark Hazard

19345.7

Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero

20057.3

I Loved a Woman

19334.8

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

19304.5

Unholy Partners

19417.6

Tampico

19446.7

Okay for Sound

19466.7

East Is West

19305.3

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

19317.0

Arms and the Woman

1916

Movie Tough Guys

199110.0

Polo with the Stars

19415.3

A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'

19736.5

Outside the Law

19305.2

The First Gangster and the Last Gangster

1937

Born a Man

1965