Edward G. Robinson
Acting
Born 1893-12-12
Died 1973-01-26
Bucarest, Roumanie
153 credits
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award 1
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Academy Honorary Award 1
Awards
Nominated for 1 Tony Award
Tony Awards 1 nominated
- 1956 Best Actor in a Play Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award 1 won
- — Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award Won
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
Academy Honorary Award 1 won
- 1973 Academy Honorary Award Won
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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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Filmography
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Acting
58 credits
Golden Globe Awards
Batman
The Lucy Show
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Climax!
What's My Line?
Night Gallery
The Steve Allen Show
The Oscars
The Ed Sullivan Show
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Ford Television Theatre
The Detectives
This Is Your Life
The Ten Commandments
The Hollywood Palace
Soylent Green
Lux Video Theatre
Double Indemnity
Mackenna's Gold
Key Largo
Cheyenne Autumn
The Stranger
The Cincinnati Kid
Scarlet Street
Robin and the 7 Hoods
House of Strangers
NBC Sunday Showcase
Little Caesar
The Woman in the Window
The Prize
The Sea Wolf
The Red House
Rat Pack
Kid Galahad
My Geisha
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Seven Thieves
General Electric Theater
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
The Violent Men
All My Sons
Vice Squad
Bullets or Ballots
Neither by Day Nor by Night
The Stolen Jools
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Good Neighbor Sam
Flesh and Fantasy
Brother Orchid
Pepe
The Whole Town's Talking
Barbary Coast
Manpower
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
The Last Gangster
Two Weeks in Another Town
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