Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was a Romanian-born American actor. 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.
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Edward G. Robinson Biography / Wiki
| Name | Edward G. Robinson |
| Also Know | Emanuel Goldenberg, E.G. Robinson, Edward Robinson, Ðдвард Дж. РобинÑон |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Bucharest, Romania |
| Date of Birth | 1893-12-12 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 79 |
| Deathday | 1973-01-26 |
Edward G. Robinson Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| House of Strangers | Gino Monetti | 1949-07-01 | Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help thei… |
| The Stranger | Federal Agent Wilson | 1946-07-02 | A man working for the War Crimes Commission suspects that an important Nazi official has folded himself into a quaint Connecticut town…. |
| The Red House | Pete Morgan | 1947-02-04 | An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in … |
| Manpower | Hank ‘Gimpy’ McHenry | 1941-08-09 | Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tens… |
| Night Has a Thousand Eyes | John Triton / ‘The Mental Wizard’ | 1948-10-13 | When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship to John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage menta… |
| Black Tuesday | Vincent Canelli | 1954-12-31 | Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a… |
| Brother Orchid | Little John T. ‘Johnny’ Sarto | 1940-06-07 | When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himsel… |
| Two Seconds | John Allen | 1932-05-28 | A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flas… |
| A Bullet for Joey | Raoul Leduc | 1955-04-15 | Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to car… |
| The Sea Wolf | ‘Wolf’ Larsen | 1941-03-21 | Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who’s losing his mind…. |
| A Slight Case of Murder | Remy Marko | 1938-02-26 | Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses…. |
| Little Caesar | Caesar Enrico ‘Rico’ Bandello aka ‘Little Caesar’ | 1931-01-25 | A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?… |
| Bullets or Ballots | Johnny Blake | 1936-06-06 | After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger th… |
| The Little Giant | James Francis ‘Bugs’ / ‘Jim’ Ahearn | 1933-05-20 | Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as soc… |
| Nightmare | Rene Bressard | 1956-08-20 | Clarinettist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dre… |
| The Last Gangster | Joe Krozac | 1937-11-12 | A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has other plans though, and use the child to try and m… |
| Sammy Going South | Cocky Wainwright | 1963-03-18 | After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South … |
| Five Star Final | Joseph W. Randall | 1931-09-26 | An unscrupulous newspaper editor searches for headlines at any cost…. |
| The Glass Web | Henry Hayes | 1953-11-11 | The ice-cold diva Paula ruthlessly exploits the guys she dates. While blackmailing the married Don with a recent one-night-stand, she has a secret aff… |
| All My Sons | Joe Keller | 1948-05-01 | During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him whe… |
| Seven Thieves | Theo Wilkins | 1960-03-11 | A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job–the casino vault in Monte Carlo…. |
| Scarlet Street | Christopher Cross | 1945-12-25 | Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she’s really only… |
| The Woman in the Window | Professor Richard Wanley | 1944-10-25 | A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder…. |
| Illegal | Victor Scott | 1955-10-09 | A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair — only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney… |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Dr. T.S. Clitterhouse | 1938-07-20 | A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceed… |
| Smart Money | Nick ‘The Barber’ Venizelos | 1931-07-11 | Two brothers’ trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events…. |
| Larceny, Inc. | ‘Pressure’ Maxwell | 1942-04-24 | Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers…… |
| Kid Galahad | Nick ‘Nicky’ Donati | 1937-05-29 | Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the ‘kid’ falls for his sister…. |
| The Whole Town’s Talking | Arthur Ferguson ‘Jonesy’ Jones / ‘Killer’ Mannion | 1935-02-22 | Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He’s never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to h… |
| Silver Dollar | Yates Martin | 1932-12-22 | A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty…. |
| The Man with Two Faces | Damon Welles / Jules Chautard | 1934-08-04 | Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartme… |
| Tampico | Capt. Bart Manson | 1944-04-10 | A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall when her ship is sunk by a German U-bo… |
| Vice Squad | Capt. ‘Barnie’ Barnaby | 1953-07-31 | A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day…. |
| Actors and Sin | Maurice Tillayou (segment Actor’s Blood) | 1952-06-18 | Two-part story–the first is about a washed-up Broadway actor and his tough daughter, who is a bigger star than he is; the second is about a literary … |
| Unholy Partners | Bruce Corey | 1941-11-01 | A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner…. |
| Thunder in the City | Dan Armstrong | 1937-04-22 | A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen…. |
| Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet | Dr. Paul Ehrlich | 1940-02-23 | True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis…. |
| Big Leaguer | John B ‘Hans’ Lobert | 1953-08-19 | John Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for the New York Giants. Every year, he evaluates the 18-22 year old hopefuls to pick the best for a minor… |
| Mr. Winkle Goes to War | Wilbert Winkle | 1944-07-19 | Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific…. |
| Confessions of a Nazi Spy | Edward ‘Ed’ Renard | 1939-05-06 | FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund…. |
| Our Vines Have Tender Grapes | Martinius Jacobson | 1945-09-06 | Welcome to Fuller Junction, Wisconsin, a friendly small town settled by Norwegian farmers. Here we see the exploits of two young cousins, Selma and A… |
| Tiger Shark | Mike Mascarenhas | 1932-09-24 | A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate…. |
| I Loved a Woman | John Mansfield Hayden | 1933-09-23 | The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in l… |
| Dark Hazard | Jim ‘Buck’ Turner | 1934-01-31 | Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valeri… |
| I Am the Law | John Lindsay | 1938-08-25 | With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime…. |
| Blackmail | John R. Ingram | 1939-09-08 | A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him…. |
| A Dispatch from Reuters | Paul Julius Reuter | 1940-10-19 | German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency…. |
| The Hatchet Man | Wong Low Get | 1932-02-06 | When he’s forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man’s daughter…. |
| My Daughter Joy | George Constantin | 1950-08-21 | A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik…. |
| The Old Man Who Cried Wolf | Emile Pulska | 1970-10-13 | Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told th… |
| It’s Your Move | Sir George McDowell | 1968-08-10 | A criminal plots a bank robbery hinging on doubles of the employees…. |
| The First Gangster and the Last Gangster | Himself | 1937-01-24 | Edward G. Robinson talks to the audience about the history of gangster films and introduces his latest vehicle…. |
| Destroyer | Steven ‘Boley’ Boleslavski | 1943-08-19 | Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the c… |
| The Cincinnati Kid | Lancey Howard | 1965-10-15 | An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game…. |
| The Prize | Max Stratman/Walter Stratman | 1963-12-25 | A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now … |
| Key Largo | Johnny Rocco | 1948-07-16 | A hurricane swells outside, but it’s nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up – and … |
| Never a Dull Moment | Leo Joseph Smooth | 1968-06-26 | When practicing for a role, actor Jack is mistaken for the killer Ace. He doesn’t realize this until it’s too late and is carried off to gangster boss… |
| Hell on Frisco Bay | Victor Amato | 1955-12-01 | A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible…. |
| Tight Spot | Lloyd Hallett | 1955-03-19 | A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the Distri… |
| Barbary Coast | Luis Chamalis | 1935-10-13 | Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis’ Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling ho… |
| The Hole in the Wall | The Fox | 1929-04-27 | Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her in… |
| Outside the Law | Cobra Collins | 1930-09-18 | Fingers is planning a half-million-dollar bank robbery in gang boss Cobra Collins’ territory. Fingers’ moll Connie tries to bluff Cobra into thinking … |
| The Widow from Chicago | Dominic | 1930-11-23 | A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother’s death…. |
| A Lady to Love | Tony | 1930-02-28 | Middle-aged Napa Valley grape-grower Tony posts a marriage proposal to San Francisco waitress Lena enclosing a photo of his handsome younger brother B… |
| Blow-Ups of 1947 | Himself | 1947-01-01 | Warner Brothers bloopers of 1947… |
| Pulp Cinema | Himself (archive footage) | 2001-07-17 | Four dozen original coming attractions previews of classic film noir. From A-list biggies to lesser-known gems, this set is a distillation of Americaâ… |
| Die Sehnsucht jeder Frau | Tony | 1931-03-21 | Tony, a prosperous Italian vineyardist in California, advertises for a young wife, passing off a photograph of his handsome hired man, Buck, as himsel… |
| Born a Man | Narrator | 1965-01-06 | An account of the rehabilitation of an electrician who is totally and permanently blinded by an accident. Shows how his courage and efforts help him t… |
| Double Indemnity | Barton Keyes | 1944-06-14 | A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of d… |
| A Hole in the Head | Mario Manetta | 1959-09-15 | An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son…. |
| My Geisha | Sam Lewis | 1962-03-09 | Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version… |
| The Violent Men | Lee Wilkison | 1955-01-26 | A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor’s crippled owner an… |
| East Is West | Charlie Yong | 1930-10-23 | Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee. To save her from deportation she is sold t… |
| The Right Man | Theodore Roosevelt | 1960-01-01 | Film on presidential campaigns and the right to vote. Used as educational material in American classrooms…. |
| Night Ride | Tony Garotta | 1930-01-12 | Just after newsman Rooker and Ruth Kearns are married he covers a double murder during a bank robbery. Cigarettes at the scene implicate gangster Tony… |
| The Ten Commandments | Dathan | 1956-10-05 | Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal qu… |
| The Outrage | Con Man | 1964-10-07 | At a disused railway station, three men — a con artist, a preacher, and a prospector — discuss the recent trial and sentencing of the outlaw Juan C… |
| Neither by Day Nor by Night | Father | 1972-06-01 | An American soldier is wounded in Israel and slowly begins to lose his sight while hospitalized…. |
| Polo with the Stars | Himself – Watching Polo Match | 1941-09-20 | A short in the WB Hollywood Novelty series (production number 7301) about the training of polo ponies. Buddy Rogers buys one of the ponies in training… |
| A Star Is Born World Premiere | Self | 1954-09-28 | Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Acade… |
| Two Weeks in Another Town | Maurice Kruger | 1962-08-17 | After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and profess… |
| Operation San Pietro | Joe Ventura | 1967-12-29 | Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Nap… |
| Flesh and Fantasy | Marshall Tyler (segment 2) | 1943-10-29 | Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts… |
| Journey Together | Dean McWilliams | 1945-10-01 | Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin…. |
| The Blonde from Peking | Douglas – chef C.I.A. | 1967-08-25 | A CIA man poses an actor as the husband of an amnesiac, all for Chinese missile data and a jewel…. |
| Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored | Himself (archive footage) | 2013-01-29 | Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood’s brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history . You’ll… |
| A Look at the World of Soylent Green | 1973-01-01 | This promotional short film for Soylent Green (1973) begins by showing clips of films that depicted what the future might be like beyond Earth (click … | |
| Tales of Manhattan | Avery L. ‘Larry’ Browne | 1942-08-05 | Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video relea… |
| Round About Hollywood | Self | 1931-05-22 | This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen from the streets. Considerable time is taken showin… |
| Soylent Green | Sol Roth | 1973-04-18 | This is the year 2022. Overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The a… |
| Grand Slam | Prof. James Anders | 1967-09-28 | Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to p… |
| The Biggest Bundle of Them All | Professor Samuels | 1968-01-17 | A kidnapped mobster (Vittorio De Sica) persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train…. |
| Song of Norway | Krogstad | 1970-11-04 | Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian… |
| The Bright Shawl | Domingo Escobar | 1923-04-22 | Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves…. |
| Arms and the Woman | Factory Worker | 1916-11-25 | Rozika is a Hungarian girl who can sing quite nice. She goes to the place known as the United States with her brother whose name happens to be Young C… |
| A Day at Santa Anita | Edward G. Robinson (uncredited) | 1937-05-22 | Orphaned horse-trainer’s little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races…. |
| How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: ‘Trouble Shots’ | 1931-09-18 | Golf legend Bobby Jones gives his take on trouble shots…. | |
| Okay for Sound | 1946-09-07 | This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers’ first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 Augus… | |
| Breakdowns of 1939 | Himself | 1940-01-02 | Flubs and bloopers that occurred ont the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939…. |
| Shadows of Suspense | Himself (Archive Footage) | 2006-08-22 | A documentary featuring film historians, directors and authors discussing the making of Billy Wilder’s “Double Indemnity.”… |
| Mackenna’s Gold | Old Adams | 1969-03-18 | A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to ke… |
| Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) | Self | 1936-09-11 | Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard’s private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the… |
| Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire | Self (archive footage) | 1991-07-15 | Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend…. |
| You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story | Himself (archive footage) | 2008-05-15 | Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century…. |
| Good Neighbor Sam | Simon Nurdlinger | 1964-07-22 | To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising,… |
| Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film | (archive footage) | 2008-10-21 | Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film…. |
| Cheyenne Autumn | the Secretary of the Interior | 1964-10-03 | A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyennes…. |
| Breakdowns of 1941 | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1941-11-14 | Blooper out-takes from Torrid Zone, Four Mothers, The Wagons Roll at Night, The Sea Wolf, No Time for Comedy, The Bride Came C.O.D., and Affectionatel… |
| From the Ends of the Earth | Self | 1939-05-28 | An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat ‘From the Ends of the Earth’ to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at t… |
| Mooch Goes to Hollywood | Edward G. Robinson – Party guest (uncredited) | 1971-12-31 | A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor…. |
| Bogart: The Untold Story | Self (archive footage) | 1997-01-05 | Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends a… |
| Checking Out: Grand Hotel | Self (archive footage) | 2004-02-03 | Until 1932’s Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM’s production genius Irving Thalberg, the film bo… |
| An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee | Himself | 1930-08-01 | Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, atten… |
| Breakdowns of 1936 | Himself | 1936-12-30 | Time marches on…. |
| Robin and the 7 Hoods | Big Jim Stevens (uncredited) | 1964-06-24 | In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Gu… |
| Pepe | Edward G. Robinson | 1960-12-21 | Mario “Cantinflas” Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe’s boss. … |
| It’s a Great Feeling | Edward G. Robinson (uncredited) | 1949-08-01 | A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and … |
| Breakdowns of 1942 | Self | 1942-01-01 | This is a collection of bloopers and film manipulation by The Warner Studio Club for an annual dinner for the staff at Warner Brothers…. |
| Frank Capra’s American Dream | 1997-01-01 | A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard…. | |
| 1939: Hollywood’s Greatest Year | 2009-07-02 | This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood’s greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special…. | |
| The Stolen Jools | Gangster | 1931-04-04 | Famous actress Norma Shearer’s jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuber… |
| Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 | Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression…. |
| Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Himself (archive footage) | 1983-02-25 | Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo… |
| And the Oscar Goes To… | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 | The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry’s most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO… traces the history of the Academy … |
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