American actor (1893?1973)
Edward G. Robinson
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Robinson in 1948
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Born
| Emanuel Goldenberg
(
1893-12-12
)
December 12, 1893
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Died
| January 26, 1973
(1973-01-26)
(aged 79)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Resting place
| Beth El Cemetery,
Ridgewood, Queens
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Nationality
| American
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Occupation
| Actor
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Years active
| 1913?1973
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Spouses
|
Gladys Lloyd
(
m.
1927;
div.
1956)
Jane Robinson
(
m.
1958)
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Children
| Edward G. Robinson Jr.
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Awards
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Edward G. Robinson
(born
Emanuel Goldenberg
; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was an American actor of stage and screen, who was popular during
Hollywood's Golden Age
. He appeared in 30 Broadway plays,
[1]
and more than 100 films, during a 50-year career,
[2]
and is best remembered for his tough-guy roles as gangsters in such films as
Little Caesar
and
Key Largo
. During his career, Robinson received the
Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor
for his performance in
House of Strangers
.
During the 1930s and 1940s, he was an outspoken public critic of
fascism
and
Nazism
, which were growing in strength in Europe in the years which led up to
World War II
. His activism included contributing over $250,000 to more than 850 organizations that were involved in war relief, along with contributions to cultural, educational, and religious groups. During the 1950s, he was called to testify in front of the
House Un-American Activities Committee
during the
Red Scare
, but he was cleared of any deliberate
Communist
involvement when he claimed that he was "duped" by several people whom he named (including screenwriter
Dalton Trumbo
), according to the official Congressional record, "Communist infiltration of the Hollywood motion-picture industry".
[3]
[4]
As a result of being investigated, he found himself on Hollywood's graylist, people who were on the Hollywood blacklist maintained by the major studios, but could find work at minor film studios on what was called
Poverty Row
.
Robinson's roles included an
insurance investigator
in the
film noir
Double Indemnity
,
Dathan
(the adversary of
Moses
) in
The Ten Commandments
, and his final performance in the
science-fiction
story
Soylent Green
.
[5]
Robinson received an
Academy Honorary Award
for his work in the film industry, which was awarded two months after he died in 1973. He is ranked number 24 in the
American Film Institute
's list of the 25
greatest male stars of Classic American cinema
. Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited him as one of the best actors never to have received an
Academy Award
nomination.
[6]
[7]
Early years and education
[
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]
Robinson was born Emmanuel Goldenberg (
Yiddish
:
?????? ???????????
) on December 12, 1893, in a
Yiddish
-speaking
Romanian Jewish
family in
Bucharest
, the fifth son of Sarah (nee Guttman) and Yeshaya Moyshe Goldenberg (later called Morris in the U.S.), a builder.
[8]
According to the
New York Times
, one of his brothers was attacked by an
anti-semitic
gang during a "schoolboy pogrom".
[9]
In the wake of that violence, the family decided to
emigrate
to the United States.
[2]
Robinson arrived in
New York City
on February 21, 1904.
[10]
"At
Ellis Island
I was born again," he wrote. "Life for me began when I was 10 years old."
[2]
In America, he assumed the name of Emanuel. He grew up on the
Lower East Side
,
[11]
: 91
and had his
Bar Mitzvah
at
First Roumanian-American Congregation
.
[12]
He attended
Townsend Harris High School
and then the
City College of New York
, planning to become a criminal attorney.
[13]
An interest in acting and performing in front of people led to him winning an
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
scholarship
,
[13]
after which he changed his name to
Edward G. Robinson
(the G. standing for his original
surname
).
[13]
He served in the
United States Navy
during
World War I
, but was never sent overseas.
[14]
Career
[
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]
Theatre
[
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]
In 1915, Robinson made his
Broadway
debut in Roi Cooper Megrue's "Under Fire".
[15]
He made his film debut in
Arms and the Woman
(1916).
In 1923, he made his named debut as
E. G. Robinson
in the silent film,
The Bright Shawl
.
[2]
The Racket
[
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]
He played a snarling gangster in the 1927
Broadway
police/crime drama
The Racket
, which led to his being cast in similar film roles, beginning with
The Hole in the Wall
(1929) with
Claudette Colbert
for
Paramount
.
One of many actors who saw their careers flourish rather than falter in the new
sound film
era, he made only three films prior to 1930, but left his stage career that year and made 14 films between 1930 and 1932.
Robinson went to
Universal
for
Night Ride
(1930) and MGM for
A Lady to Love
(1930) directed by
Victor Sjostrom
. At Universal he was in
Outside the Law
and
East Is West
(both 1930), then he did
The Widow from Chicago
(1931) at
First National
.
Little Caesar
[
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]
At this point, Robinson was becoming an established film actor. What began his rise to stardom was an acclaimed performance as the gangster Caesar Enrico "Rico" Bandello in
Little Caesar
(1931) at
Warner Bros
.
Robinson signed a long-term contract with Warner Bros., casting him in another gangster film,
Smart Money
(1931), his only movie with
James Cagney
. He was reunited with
Mervyn LeRoy
, director of
Little Caesar
, in
Five Star Final
(1931), playing a journalist, and played a Tong gangster in
The Hatchet Man
(1932).
Robinson made a third film with LeRoy,
Two Seconds
(1932) then did a melodrama directed by
Howard Hawks
,
Tiger Shark
(1932).
Warner Bros. tried him in a biopic,
Silver Dollar
(1932), where Robinson played
Horace Tabor
; a comedy,
The Little Giant
(1933); and a romance,
I Loved a Woman
(1933).
Robinson was then in
Dark Hazard
(1934) and
The Man with Two Faces
(1934).
He went to Columbia for
The Whole Town's Talking
(1935), a comedy directed by John Ford.
Sam Goldwyn
borrowed him for
Barbary Coast
(1935), again directed by Hawks.
Back at Warner Bros. he did
Bullets or Ballots
(1936) then he went to Britain for
Thunder in the City
(1937). He made
Kid Galahad
(1937) with
Bette Davis
and
Humphrey Bogart
. MGM borrowed him for
The Last Gangster
(1937), then he did a comedy
A Slight Case of Murder
(1938). Again with Bogart in a supporting role, he was in
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
(1938) and then he was borrowed by Columbia for
I Am the Law
(1938).
World War II
[
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]
At the time
World War II
broke out in Europe, he played an
FBI
agent in
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
(1939), the first American film that portrayed
Nazism
as a threat to the United States.
He volunteered for military service in June 1942 but was disqualified due to his age which was 48,
[16]
although he became an active and vocal critic of
fascism
and Nazism during that period.
[17]
MGM borrowed him for
Blackmail
, (1939). Then, to avoid being typecast, he played the biomedical scientist and Nobel laureate
Paul Ehrlich
in
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
(1940), and played
Paul Julius Reuter
in
A Dispatch from Reuters
(1940).
[18]
Both films were biographies of prominent Jewish public figures. In between, he and Bogart starred in
Brother Orchid
(1940).
[18]
Robinson was teamed up with
John Garfield
in
The Sea Wolf
(1941), and
George Raft
in
Manpower
(1941). He went to MGM for
Unholy Partners
(1942), and made a comedy
Larceny, Inc.
(1942).
Post-Warner Bros.
[
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]
Robinson was one of several stars in
Tales of Manhattan
(1942) and
Flesh and Fantasy
(1943).
He did war films:
Destroyer
(1943) at
Columbia
, and
Tampico
(1944) at
Fox
. At Paramount, he was in
Billy Wilder
's
Double Indemnity
(1944), with
Fred MacMurray
and
Barbara Stanwyck
, where his riveting soliloquy on insurance actuarial tables (written by
Raymond Chandler
) is considered a career showstopper;
[
clarification needed
]
and at Columbia, he was in
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
(1944). He then performed with
Joan Bennett
and
Dan Duryea
in
Fritz Lang
's
The Woman in the Window
(1944), and
Scarlet Street
(1945), where he played a criminal painter.
At MGM, he was in
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
(1945), and then
Orson Welles
'
The Stranger
(1946), with Welles and
Loretta Young
. Robinson followed it with another thriller,
The Red House
(1947), and starred in an adaptation of
All My Sons
(1948).
Robinson appeared for director
John Huston
as the gangster Johnny Rocco in
Key Largo
(1948), the last of five films that he made with
Humphrey Bogart
, and the only one in which Robinson played a supporting role to Bogart's character in the film. It is also the only film with Bogart where Bogart's character killed Robinson's character in a gunfight, instead of the opposite. Around the same time, he was cast in starring roles for
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
(1948) and
House of Strangers
(1949).
Greylisting
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]
Robinson found it hard to get work after his greylisting.
[
citation needed
]
He starred in modest-budget films:
Actors and Sin
(1952),
Vice Squad
(1953), with brief appearances by second-billed
Paulette Goddard
,
Big Leaguer
(1953) with
Vera-Ellen
,
The Glass Web
(1953) with
John Forsythe
,
Black Tuesday
(1954) with
Peter Graves
,
The Violent Men
(1955) with
Glenn Ford
and
Barbara Stanwyck
, in the well-received
Tight Spot
(1955) with
Ginger Rogers
and
Brian Keith
,
A Bullet for Joey
(1955) with
George Raft
,
Illegal
(1955) with
Nina Foch
, and in
Hell on Frisco Bay
(1956) with
Alan Ladd
.
His career's rehabilitation received a boost in 1954, when the
anti-communist
film director
Cecil B. DeMille
cast him as the traitorous
Dathan
in
The Ten Commandments
. The film was released in 1956, as was his psychological thriller
Nightmare
. After a subsequent short absence from the screen, Robinson's film career ? augmented by an increasing number of television roles ? re-started in 1958/1959, when he was second-billed, after Frank Sinatra, in the 1959 release
A Hole in the Head
.
Supporting actor
[
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]
Robinson went to Europe for
Seven Thieves
(1960). He had support roles in
My Geisha
(1962),
Two Weeks in Another Town
(1962),
Sammy Going South
(1963),
The Prize
(1963),
Robin and the 7 Hoods
(1964),
Good Neighbor Sam
(1964),
Cheyenne Autumn
(1964), and
The Outrage
(1964).
He was second-billed, under
Steve McQueen
, with his name above the title, in
The Cincinnati Kid
(1965). McQueen had idolized Robinson while growing up, and opted for him when
Spencer Tracy
insisted on top billing for the same role. Robinson was top-billed in
The Blonde from Peking
. He also appeared in
Grand Slam
(1967), starring
Janet Leigh
and
Klaus Kinski
.
Robinson was originally cast in the role of Dr. Zaius in
Planet Of The Apes
(1968) and he even went so far as to film a screen test with
Charlton Heston
. However, Robinson dropped out of the project before its production began due to heart problems and concerns over the long hours that he would have needed to spend under the heavy ape makeup. He was replaced by
Maurice Evans
.
His later appearances included
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
(1968) starring
Robert Wagner
and
Raquel Welch
,
Never a Dull Moment
(1968) with
Dick Van Dyke
,
It's Your Move
(1968),
Mackenna's Gold
(1969) starring
Gregory Peck
and
Omar Sharif
, and the
Night Gallery
episode “The Messiah on Mott Street" (1971).
The last scene that Robinson filmed was a
euthanasia
sequence, with his friend and co-star
Charlton Heston
, in the
science fiction
film
Soylent Green
(1973); he died 84 days later.
Heston, as president of the
Screen Actors Guild
, presented Robinson with its annual award in 1969, "in recognition of his pioneering work in organizing the union, his service during World War II, and his 'outstanding achievement in fostering the finest ideals of the acting profession.'"
[11]
: 124
Robinson was never nominated for an
Academy Award
, but in 1973 he was awarded an
honorary Oscar
in recognition that he had "achieved greatness as a player, a patron of the arts and a dedicated citizen ... in sum, a Renaissance man".
[2]
He had been notified of the honor, but he died two months before the award ceremony took place, so the award was accepted by his widow, Jane Robinson.
[2]
Radio
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]
From 1937 to 1942, Robinson starred as Steve Wilson, editor of the
Illustrated Press
, in the newspaper drama
Big Town
.
[19]
He also portrayed hardboiled detective
Sam Spade
for a
Lux Radio Theatre
adaptation of
The Maltese Falcon
. During the 1940s he performed on CBS Radio's "Cadena de las Americas" network broadcasts to South America in collaboration with
Nelson Rockefeller
's
cultural diplomacy
program at the U.S. State Department's
Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
.
[20]
Political activism
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]
During the 1930s, Robinson was an outspoken public critic of
fascism
and
Nazism
, donating more than $250,000 to 850 political and charitable organizations between 1939 and 1949. He was host to the
Committee of 56,
which gathered at his home on December 9, 1938, signing a "Declaration of Democratic Independence," which called for a boycott of all German-made products.
[17]
After the
Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union
, while he was not a supporter of
Communism
, he appeared at Soviet war relief rallies in order to give moral aid to America's new ally, which he said could join "together in their hatred of Hitlerism".
[11]
: 107
Although he attempted to enlist in the military when the United States formally entered World War II, he was unable to do so because of his age;
[16]
instead, the
Office of War Information
appointed him as a Special Representative based in London.
[11]
: 106
From there, taking advantage of his multilingual skills, he delivered radio addresses in over six languages to European countries that had fallen under
Nazi domination
.
[11]
: 106
His talent as a radio speaker in the U.S. had previously been recognized by the
American Legion
, which had given him an award for his "outstanding contribution to
Americanism
through his stirring patriotic appeals".
[11]
: 106
Robinson was also an active member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, serving on its executive board in 1944, during which time he became an "enthusiastic" campaigner for Roosevelt's
reelection
that same year.
[11]
: 107
During the 1940s, Robinson also contributed to the
cultural diplomacy
initiatives of Roosevelt's
Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
in support of
Pan-Americanism
through his broadcasts to South America on the
CBS
"Cadena da las Americas" radio network.
[20]
In early July 1944, less than a month after the
Invasion of Normandy
by Allied forces, Robinson traveled to Normandy to entertain the troops, becoming the first movie star to go there for the
USO
.
[11]
: 106
[21]
He personally donated $100,000 (equal to $1,730,813 today) to the USO.
[11]
: 107
After returning to the U.S., he continued his active involvement in the war effort by going to shipyards and defense plants in order to inspire workers, in addition to appearing at rallies in order to help sell
war bonds
.
[11]
: 107
After the war ended, Robinson publicly spoke out in support of
democratic rights
for all Americans, especially in demanding equality for
Black
workers in the workplace. He endorsed the
Fair Employment Practices Commission
's call to end workplace discrimination.
[11]
: 109
Black leaders praised him as "one of the great friends of the Negro and a great advocator of Democracy".
[11]
: 109
Robinson also campaigned for the civil rights of African Americans, helping many to overcome
segregation
and
discrimination
.
[22]
During the years when Robinson spoke out against fascism and Nazism, he was not a supporter of Communism, but he did not criticize the
Soviet Union
, which he saw as an ally against
Hitler
. However, the film historian Steven J. Ross observes "activists who attacked Hitler without simultaneously attacking
Stalin
were vilified by
conservative
critics as either Communists, Communist dupes, or, at best, as
naive
liberal
dupes."
[11]
: 128
In addition, Robinson learned that 11 out of the more than 850 charities and groups that he had helped over the previous decade were listed as Communist front organizations by the FBI.
[23]
As a result, he was called to testify in front of the
House Un-American Activities Committee
(HUAC) in 1950 and 1952, and he was also threatened with
blacklisting
.
[24]
As shown in the full
House Un-American Activities Committee transcript
for April 30, 1952, Robinson repudiated some of the organizations that he had belonged to in the 1930s and 1940s.
[24]
[25]
and stated that he felt he had been duped or made use of unawares "by the sinister forces who were members, and probably in important positions in these [front] organizations."
[11]
: 121
When asked whom he personally knew who might have "duped" him, he replied, "Well, you had
Albert Maltz
, and you have
Dalton Trumbo
, and you have ...
John Howard Lawson
. I knew
Frank Tuttle
. I didn't know [Edward]
Dmytryk
at all. There are the Buchmans, that I know, Sidney Buchman and all that sort of thing. It never entered my mind that any of these people were Communists."
[26]
Despite accusing these persons of being duplicitous towards him about their political aims, Robinson never directly accused anyone of being a Communist. His own name was cleared, but in the aftermath, his career noticeably suffered; he was offered smaller roles infrequently. In October 1952, he wrote an article titled "How the Reds made a Sucker Out of Me", and it was published in the
American Legion Magazine.
[27]
The chair of the committee,
Francis E. Walter
, told Robinson at the end of his testimonies that the Committee "never had any evidence presented to indicate that you were anything more than a very choice sucker."
[11]
: 122
Personal life
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]
Robinson married stage actress Gladys Lloyd Cassell in 1927. The couple had a son,
Edward G. Robinson, Jr.
, known as Manny, (1933?1974), and a daughter from Robinson's wife's first marriage.
[28]
The couple divorced in 1956. In 1958, Robinson married Jane Bodenheimer, a dress designer professionally known as Jane Arden. He lived in
Palm Springs, California
.
[29]
In contrast to the gangsters he portrayed in film, Robinson was a soft-spoken and cultured man.
[2]
He was a passionate art collector, eventually building up a significant private
collection
. In 1956, however, he was forced to sell his collection to pay for his divorce settlement with Gladys Robinson; his finances had also suffered due to underemployment in the early 1950s.
[11]
: 120
Death
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]
Robinson died of
bladder cancer
at
Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles
[30]
on January 26, 1973, just weeks after finishing Soylent Green, and months before he was to be given an honorary
Academy Award
later that year. He was 79. Services were conducted at Temple Israel in Los Angeles where
Charlton Heston
delivered the eulogy.
[2]
More than 1,500 friends of Robinson attended, with another 500 people outside.
[11]
His body was flown to New York where it was entombed in a crypt in his family's mausoleum at Beth-El Cemetery in Brooklyn.
[31]
His pallbearers were
Jack L. Warner
,
Hal B. Wallis
,
Mervyn Leroy
,
George Burns
,
Sam Jaffe
,
Frank Sinatra
, Jack Karp and Alan Simpson.
[2]
In popular culture
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]
In October 2000, Robinson's image was imprinted on a U.S. postage stamp, the sixth in its Legends of Hollywood series.
[11]
: 125
[32]
Robinson has been the inspiration for a number of animated television characters, usually caricatures of his most distinctive 'snarling gangster' guise. An early version of the gangster character
Rocky
, featured in the
Bugs Bunny
cartoon
Racketeer Rabbit
, shared his likeness. This version of the character also appears briefly in
Justice League
, in the episode "Comfort and Joy", as an alien with Robinson's face and non-human body, who hovers past the screen as a background character.
Similar caricatures also appeared in
The Coo-Coo Nut Grove
,
Thugs with Dirty Mugs
and
Hush My Mouse
. Another character based on Robinson's tough-guy image was The Frog (Chauncey "Flat Face" Frog) from the cartoon series
Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse
. The voice of B.B. Eyes in
The Dick Tracy Show
was based on Robinson, with
Mel Blanc
and
Jerry Hausner
sharing voicing duties. The
Wacky Races
animated series character 'Clyde' from the Ant Hill Mob was based on Robinson's Little Caesar persona.
Voice actor
Hank Azaria
has noted that the voice of
Simpsons
character police chief
Clancy Wiggum
is an impression of Robinson.
[33]
Robinson was portrayed by actor
Michael Stuhlbarg
in the 2015 biographical drama film
Trumbo
.
[34]
Selected filmography
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]
Year
|
Title
|
Role
|
Co-stars
|
Notes
|
1916
|
Arms and the Woman
|
Factory Worker
|
|
Uncredited, some sources only
[35]
|
1923
|
The Bright Shawl
|
Domingo Escobar
|
Richard Barthelmess
,
William Powell
and
Mary Astor
|
Credited as E.G. Robinson
|
1929
|
The Hole in the Wall
|
The Fox
|
Claudette Colbert
|
|
1930
|
Outside the Law
|
Cobra Collins
|
|
|
A Lady to Love
|
Tony
|
|
|
East Is West
|
Charlie Yong
|
Lupe Velez
and
Lew Ayres
|
|
Night Ride
|
Tony Garotta
|
Joseph Schildkraut
|
|
Die Sehnsucht jeder Frau
|
Tony
|
|
German language version of
A Lady to Love
[36]
|
The Kibitzer
|
|
|
co-written original play only
|
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Brothers Silver Jubilee
|
Himself
|
|
Short subject
|
The Widow from Chicago
|
Dominic
|
Neil Hamilton
|
|
1931
|
How I Play Golf by Bobby Jones No. 10: Trouble Shots
|
Himself
|
|
Short subject
Uncredited
|
Little Caesar
|
Little Caesar ? Alias 'Rico'
|
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
|
|
The Stolen Jools
|
Gangster
|
Wallace Beery
and
Buster Keaton
|
Segment "At the Police Station"
Short subject
|
Smart Money
|
Nick Venizelos
|
James Cagney
and
Boris Karloff
|
|
Five Star Final
|
Randall
|
Boris Karloff
|
|
1932
|
The Hatchet Man
|
Wong Low Get
|
Loretta Young
|
|
Two Seconds
|
John Allen
|
|
|
Tiger Shark
|
Mike Mascarenhas
|
Richard Arlen
|
|
Silver Dollar
|
Yates Martin
|
Bebe Daniels
|
|
1933
|
The Little Giant
|
Bugs Ahearn
|
Mary Astor
|
|
I Loved a Woman
|
John Mansfield Hayden
|
Kay Francis
|
|
1934
|
Dark Hazard
|
Jim 'Buck' Turner
|
|
|
The Man with Two Faces
|
Damon Welles / Jules Chautard
|
Mary Astor
|
|
1935
|
The Whole Town's Talking
|
Arthur Ferguson Jones/"Killer" Mannion
|
Jean Arthur
|
|
Barbary Coast
|
Luis Chamalis
|
Miriam Hopkins
,
Joel McCrea
,
Walter Brennan
,
Brian Donlevy
and
Harry Carey
|
|
1936
|
Bullets or Ballots
|
Detective Johnny Blake
|
Joan Blondell
and
Humphrey Bogart
|
|
1937
|
Thunder in the City
|
Dan Armstrong
|
Ralph Richardson
|
|
A Day at Santa Anita
|
Himself
|
|
Short subject
Uncredited
|
Kid Galahad
|
Nick Donati
|
Bette Davis
,
Humphrey Bogart
and
Harry Carey
|
|
The Last Gangster
|
Joe Krozac
|
James Stewart
|
|
1938
|
A Slight Case of Murder
|
Remy Marco
|
|
|
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
|
Dr. Clitterhouse
|
Claire Trevor
,
Humphrey Bogart
,
Donald Crisp
,
Maxie Rosenbloom
and
Ward Bond
|
|
I Am the Law
|
Prof. John Lindsay
|
|
|
1939
|
Verdensberømtheder i København
|
Himself
|
|
Documentary
|
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
|
Edward Renard
|
George Sanders
,
Paul Lukas
and
Ward Bond
|
|
Blackmail
|
John R. Ingram
|
Gene Lockhart
|
|
1940
|
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
|
Dr. Paul Ehrlich
|
Ruth Gordon
and
Donald Crisp
|
|
Brother Orchid
|
'Little' John T. Sarto
|
Ann Sothern
,
Humphrey Bogart
,
Donald Crisp
and
Ralph Bellamy
|
|
A Dispatch from Reuter's
|
Julius Reuter
|
Eddie Albert
and
Gene Lockhart
|
|
1941
|
The Sea Wolf
|
'Wolf' Larsen
|
Ida Lupino
,
John Garfield
,
Gene Lockhart
and
Barry Fitzgerald
|
|
Manpower
|
Hank McHenry
|
Marlene Dietrich
,
George Raft
and
Ward Bond
|
|
Polo with the Stars
|
Himself ? Watching Polo Match
|
|
Short subject
Uncredited
|
Unholy Partners
|
Bruce Corey
|
Edward Arnold
|
|
1942
|
Larceny, Inc.
|
Pressure' Maxwell
|
Jane Wyman
,
Broderick Crawford
,
Jack Carson
,
Anthony Quinn
and
Jackie Gleason
|
|
Tales of Manhattan
|
Avery L. 'Larry' Browne
|
Charles Boyer
,
Rita Hayworth
,
Ginger Rogers
,
Henry Fonda
and
Charles Laughton
|
|
Moscow Strikes Back
|
Narrator
|
|
Documentary
|
1943
|
Magic Bullets
|
Narrator
|
|
Short subject
Documentary
|
Destroyer
|
Steve Boleslavski
|
Glenn Ford
|
|
Flesh and Fantasy
|
Marshall Tyler
|
Charles Boyer
and
Barbara Stanwyck
|
Episode 2
|
1943
|
Tampico
|
Capt. Bart Manson
|
Victor McLaglen
|
|
Double Indemnity
|
Barton Keyes
|
Fred MacMurray
and
Barbara Stanwyck
|
|
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
|
Wilbert Winkle
|
|
|
The Woman in the Window
|
Professor Richard Wanley
|
Joan Bennett
and
Raymond Massey
|
|
1945
|
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
|
Martinius Jacobson
|
Agnes Moorehead
|
|
Journey Together
|
Dean McWilliams
|
Richard Attenborough
|
|
Scarlet Street
|
Christopher Cross
|
Joan Bennett
|
|
1946
|
American Creed
|
Himself
|
|
Short subject
|
The Stranger
|
Mr. Wilson
|
Loretta Young
and
Orson Welles
|
|
1947
|
The Red House
|
Pete Morgan
|
|
|
1948
|
All My Sons
|
Joe Keller
|
Burt Lancaster
|
|
Key Largo
|
Johnny Rocco
|
Humphrey Bogart
,
Lauren Bacall
,
Lionel Barrymore
and
Claire Trevor
|
|
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
|
John Triton
|
|
|
1949
|
House of Strangers
|
Gino Monetti
|
Susan Hayward
,
Richard Conte
and
Efram Zimbalist, Jr.
|
|
It's a Great Feeling
|
Himself
|
Doris Day
and
Jack Carson
|
Uncredited
|
1950
|
Operation X
|
George Constantin
|
|
|
1952
|
Actors and Sin
|
Maurice Tillayou
|
|
Segment "Actor's Blood"
|
1953
|
Vice Squad
|
Capt. 'Barnie' Barnaby
|
Paulette Goddard
|
|
Big Leaguer
|
John B. 'Hans' Lobert
|
Carl Hubbell
|
|
The Glass Web
|
Henry Hayes
|
John Forsythe
|
|
1954
|
Black Tuesday
|
Vincent Canelli
|
Peter Graves
|
|
For the Defense
|
Matthew Considine
|
|
TV movie
|
1955
|
The Violent Men
|
Lew Wilkison
|
Glenn Ford
and
Barbara Stanwyck
|
|
Tight Spot
|
Lloyd Hallett
|
Ginger Rogers
|
|
A Bullet for Joey
|
Inspector Raoul Leduc
|
George Raft
|
|
Illegal
|
Victor Scott
|
Jayne Mansfield
|
|
1956
|
Hell on Frisco Bay
|
Victor Amato
|
Alan Ladd
|
|
Nightmare
|
Rene Bressard
|
|
|
The Ten Commandments
|
Dathan
|
Charlton Heston
,
Yul Brynner
,
Anne Baxter
,
John Derek
and
Vincent Price
|
|
1957
|
The Heart of Show Business
|
Narrator
|
|
Short subject
|
1959
|
A Hole in the Head
|
Mario Manetta
|
Frank Sinatra
,
Eleanor Parker
and
Thelma Ritter
|
|
1960
|
Seven Thieves
|
Theo Wilkins
|
Rod Steiger
and
Joan Collins
|
|
"
The Devil and Daniel Webster
"
|
Daniel Webster
|
|
NBC-TV movie
|
The Right Man
|
Theodore Roosevelt
|
|
TV movie
|
Pepe
|
Himself
|
|
|
1962
|
My Geisha
|
Sam Lewis
|
Shirley MacLaine
|
|
Two Weeks in Another Town
|
Maurice Kruger
|
Kirk Douglas
and
Claire Trevor
)
|
|
1963
|
Sammy Going South
|
Cocky Wainwright
|
|
Alternative title:
A Boy Ten Feet Tall
|
The Prize
|
Dr. Max Stratman
|
Paul Newman
|
|
1964
|
Robin and the 7 Hoods
|
Big Jim Stevens
|
Rat Pack
and
Bing Crosby
|
Uncredited
|
Good Neighbor Sam
|
Simon Nurdlinger
|
Jack Lemmon
and
Neil Hamilton
|
|
Cheyenne Autumn
|
Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz
|
Richard Widmark
,
Karl Malden
,
Ricardo Montalban
and
James Stewart
|
|
The Outrage
|
Con Man
|
Paul Newman
,
Claire Bloom
and
William Shatner
|
|
1965
|
Who Has Seen the Wind?
|
Captain
|
|
TV movie
|
The Cincinnati Kid
|
Lancey Howard
|
Steve McQueen
,
Ann-Margret
,
Karl Malden
,
Joan Blondell
and
Cab Calloway
|
|
1966
|
Batman
|
Cameo
|
|
|
1967
|
All About People
|
Narrator
|
|
Short subject
|
The Blonde from Peking
|
Douglas ? chef C.I.A.
|
|
|
Grand Slam
|
Prof. James Anders
|
Janet Leigh
|
|
Operation St. Peter's
|
Joe Ventura
|
|
|
1968
|
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
|
Professor Samuels
|
Robert Wagner
and
Raquel Welch
|
|
Never a Dull Moment
|
Leo Joseph Smooth
|
Dick Van Dyke
|
|
It's Your Move
|
Sir George McDowell
|
|
|
1969
|
Mackenna's Gold
|
Old Adams
|
Gregory Peck
|
|
U.M.C.
|
Dr. Lee Forestman
|
|
Alternative title:
Operation Heartbeat
TV movie
|
1970
|
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
|
Emile Pulska
|
Martin Balsam
and
Ed Asner
|
TV Movie
|
Song of Norway
|
Krogstad
|
Florence Henderson
|
|
1971
|
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
|
Himself ? Party guest
|
Uncredited
|
Night Gallery
|
Abe Goldman
|
Season 2, episode 13a "The Messiah on Mott Street"
|
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
|
|
|
Cameo
|
1972
|
Neither by Day Nor by Night
|
Father
|
1973
|
Soylent Green
|
Sol Roth
|
Charlton Heston
and
Joseph Cotten
|
|
Radio appearances
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See also
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References
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"Edward G. Robinson ? Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB"
.
IBDB
. Retrieved
April 10,
2020
.
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h
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"Edward G. Robinson, 79, Dies; His 'Little Caesar' Set a Style; Man of Great Kindness Edward G. Robinson Is Dead at 79 Made Speeches to Friends Appeared in 100 Films"
.
The New York Times
. January 27, 1973
. Retrieved
July 21,
2007
.
- ^
"Communist infiltration of Hollywood motion-picture industry : Hearing before the Committee on Un-American activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, first session"
. 1951.
- ^
"Actor Edward G. Robinson Confesses to HUAC ? "I Was a Sucker"
"
.
Today in Civil Liberties History
. March 12, 2016
. Retrieved
April 30,
2021
.
- ^
Obituary
Variety
, January 31, 1973, p. 71.
- ^
Robey, Tim (February 1, 2016).
"20 great actors who've never been nominated for an Oscar"
.
The Daily Telegraph
.
Archived
from the original on January 11, 2022
. Retrieved
October 17,
2022
.
- ^
Singer, Leigh (February 19, 2009).
"Oscars: the best actors never to have been nominated"
.
The Guardian
. UK
. Retrieved
September 17,
2022
.
- ^
Parish, James Robert
; Marill, Alvin (1972).
The Cinema of Edward G. Robinson
.
South Brunswick, New Jersey
: A. S. Barnes. p.
16
.
ISBN
0-498-07875-2
.
- ^
"
Edward G. Robinson, 79, Dies; His "Little Caesar" Set a Style
",
New York Times
January 27, 1973, by Alden Whitman
- ^
1904 passenger list for Manole Goldenberg.
"Ancestry.com"
.
Ancestry.com
.
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Ross, Steven (2011).
Hollywood Left and Right. How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
. Oxford University Press. p. 125.
ISBN
978-0-19-518172-2
. Retrieved
March 20,
2012
.
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Epstein (2007)
, p. 249
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Pendergast, Tom. Ed.
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
, Vol. 4, pp. 229?230
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Beck, Robert (September 2, 2008).
Edward G. Robinson Encyclopedia
. McFarland.
ISBN
9780786438648
. Retrieved
January 14,
2016
.
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"Edward G. Robinson ? Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB"
.
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a
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Wise, James:
Stars in Khaki: Movie Actors in the Army and Air Services
. Naval Institute Press, 2000.
ISBN
1-55750-958-1
. p. 228.
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Ross, pp.
99?102
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b
Schatz, Thomas.
Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s
. University of California Press, November 23, 1999, p. 99.
- ^
Dunning, John
(1998). "Big Town".
On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio
(Revised ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 88?89.
ISBN
978-0-19-507678-3
. Retrieved
October 1,
2019
.
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Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda
Deborah R. Vargas. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2012 p. 152-153
ISBN
978-0-8166-7316-2
Edward G. Robbinson, OCIAA, CBS radio, Pan-americanism and Cadena de las Americas on google.books.com
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[1]
video of Robinson with the troops in France, timestamp 25:50
- ^
Lotchin, Roger W. (2000).
The Way We Really Were: The Golden State in the Second Great War
. University of Illinois Press.
ISBN
9780252068195
.
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Miller, Frank.
Leading Men
, Chronicle Books and TCM (2006) p. 185
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Sabin, Arthur J.
In Calmer Times: The Supreme Court and Red Monday
, p. 35. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1999
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Bud and Ruth Schultz,
It Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression in America
, p. 113. Berkeley:
University of California Press
, 1989.
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https://archive.org/stream/communistinfiltr07unit/communistinfiltr07unit_djvu.txt
House Un-American Activities Committee transcript
- ^
Ross, Stephen J. "Little Caesar and the McCarthyist Mob",
USC Trojan Magazine
. Los Angeles: University of Southern California, August 2011 issue. Accessed on January 10, 2013.
"Little Caesar and the McCarthyist Mob | Autumn 2011 | Trojan Family Magazine | USC"
. Archived from
the original
on May 27, 2013
. Retrieved
January 10,
2013
.
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"Edward G. Robinson, Jr. Is Dead; Late Screen Star's Son Was 40"
.
The New York Times
. February 27, 1974
. Retrieved
July 21,
2007
.
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Meeks, Eric G. (2012).
The Best Guide Ever to Palm Springs Celebrity Homes
. Horatio Limburger Oglethorpe. p. 91.
ISBN
978-1479328598
.
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Gansberg,
p. 246
,
252?253
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Beck, Robert (2002).
The Edward G. Robinson Encyclopedia
. McFarland. p. 131.
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, 2000
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Joe Rhodes (October 21, 2000). "Flash! 24 Simpsons Stars Reveal Themselves".
TV Guide
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Vancheri, Barbara (November 25, 2015).
"Michael Stuhlbarg plays Edward G. Robinson in 'Trumbo'
"
.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
. Retrieved
September 16,
2023
.
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Arms and the Woman
at the
AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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Die Sehnsucht Jeder Frau
at the
AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- ^
"Sunday Caller"
.
Harrisburg Telegraph
. February 24, 1940. p. 17
. Retrieved
July 20,
2015
– via
Newspapers.com
.
- ^
"The Man Who Wanted to Be Edward G. Robinson"
.
Harrisburg Telegraph
. October 12, 1946. p. 17
. Retrieved
October 1,
2015
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Awards for Edward G. Robinson
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1928?1950
|
- Warner Bros.
/
Charlie Chaplin
(1928)
- Walt Disney
(1932)
- Shirley Temple
(1934)
- D. W. Griffith
(1935)
- The March of Time
/
W. Howard Greene
and
Harold Rosson
(1936)
- Edgar Bergen
/
W. Howard Greene
/
Museum of Modern Art Film Library
/
Mack Sennett
(1937)
- J. Arthur Ball
/
Walt Disney
/
Deanna Durbin
and
Mickey Rooney
/
Gordon Jennings
,
Jan Domela
, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith,
Farciot Edouart
,
Loyal Griggs
,
Loren L. Ryder
, Harry D. Mills,
Louis Mesenkop
, Walter Oberst /
Oliver T. Marsh
and Allen Davey /
Harry Warner
(1938)
- Douglas Fairbanks
/
Judy Garland
/
William Cameron Menzies
/
Motion Picture Relief Fund
(
Jean Hersholt
,
Ralph Morgan
,
Ralph Block
,
Conrad Nagel
)/
Technicolor SA
(1939)
- Bob Hope
/
Nathan Levinson
(1940)
- Walt Disney
,
William Garity
, John N. A. Hawkins, and the
RCA Manufacturing Company
/
Leopold Stokowski
and his associates / Rey Scott /
British Ministry of Information
(1941)
- Charles Boyer
/
Noel Coward
/
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
(1942)
- George Pal
(1943)
- Bob Hope
/
Margaret O'Brien
(1944)
- Republic Studio,
Daniel J. Bloomberg
, and the Republic Studio Sound Department /
Walter Wanger
/
The House I Live In
/
Peggy Ann Garner
(1945)
- Harold Russell
/
Laurence Olivier
/
Ernst Lubitsch
/
Claude Jarman Jr.
(1946)
- James Baskett
/
Thomas Armat
,
William Nicholas Selig
,
Albert E. Smith
, and
George Kirke Spoor
/
Bill and Coo
/
Shoeshine
(1947)
- Walter Wanger
/
Monsieur Vincent
/
Sid Grauman
/
Adolph Zukor
(1948)
- Jean Hersholt
/
Fred Astaire
/
Cecil B. DeMille
/
The Bicycle Thief
(1949)
- Louis B. Mayer
/
George Murphy
/
The Walls of Malapaga
(1950)
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1976?2000
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2001?present
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