Edward G. Robinson
Golden Age Hollywood's ultimate O.G., Edward G. Robinson made a living as a "tough guy" in a raft of iterations, from hardboiled newspaperman to intrepid G-man. In real life soft-spoken, intellectual and selfless, Robinson would nevertheless imprint himself as cold-eyed Machiavellian thugs in such film classics as "Little Caesar" (1931), "The Sea Wolf" (1941) and "Key Largo" (1948) - though he could also single-handedly lift films with his rapid-fire comic timing, as with such screwball outings as "The Whole Town's Talking" (1935), and with colorful, cerebral supporting roles, as in "Double Indemnity" (1944). Able to command the screen by both verve and subtlety, he played his roles with such archetypal distinction and verbal flare that he would wind up inspiring a number of cartoon characters, from the shorts of Warner Bros. studio-mate Bugs Bunny while he was alive to lovably inept constable Chief Wiggum in American television's longest-running show, "The Simpsons" (Fox, 1989- ).
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Edward G. Robinson
Filmography
Movies
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Stagger | Screenwriter | - | 2009 |
70% |
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Soylent Green | Sol Roth (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Neither by Day Nor by Night | Father (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Old Man Who Cried Wolf | Emile Pulska (Character) | - | 1970 |
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Song of Norway | Krogstad (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | U.M.C. | Dr. Lee Forestman (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Peking Blonde | Douglas (Character) | - | 1968 |
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The Biggest Bundle of Them All | Professor Samuels (Character) | - | 1968 |
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Never a Dull Moment | Leo Joseph Smooth (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | It's Your Move | Sir George McDowell (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Operation St. Peter's | Joe Ventura (Character) | - | 1968 |
33% |
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Grand Slam | Prof. James Anders (Character) | - | 1967 |
86% |
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The Cincinnati Kid | Lancey Howard (Character) | - | 1965 |
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Cops and Robbers | Unknown (Character) | - | 1965 |
80% |
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Good Neighbor Sam | Simon Nurdlinger (Character) | - | 1964 |
20% |
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The Outrage | Con Man (Character) | - | 1964 |
60% |
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Cheyenne Autumn | Secretary of the Interior (Character) | - | 1964 |
40% |
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Robin and the Seven Hoods | Big Jim Stevens (Character) | - | 1964 |
50% |
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The Prize |
Dr. Max Stratman/ |
- | 1963 |
70% |
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A Boy Ten Feet Tall | Cocky Wainwright (Character) | - | 1963 |
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My Geisha | Sam Lewis (Character) | - | 1962 |
89% |
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Two Weeks in Another Town | Maurice Kruger (Character) | - | 1962 |
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Seven Thieves | Theo Wilkins (Character) | - | 1960 |
75% |
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A Hole in the Head | Mario Manetta (Character) | - | 1959 |
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Nightmare | Rene Bressard (Character) | - | 1956 |
84% |
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The Ten Commandments | Dathan (Character) | - | 1956 |
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Illegal | Victor Scott (Character) | - | 1955 |
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The Violent Men | Lee Wilkison (Character) | - | 1955 |
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A Bullet for Joey | Insp. Raoul Leduc (Character) | - | 1955 |
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Black Tuesday | Vincent Canelli (Character) | - | 1955 |
67% |
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Tight Spot | Lloyd Hallett (Character) | - | 1955 |
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Hell on Frisco Bay | Victor Amato (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Leaguer | John B. "Hans" Lobert (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Girl in Room 17 | Capt. "Barnie" Barnaby (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vice Squad | Capt. `'Barnie'` Barnaby (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Glass Web | Henry Hayes (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Actors and Sin | Maurice Tillayou (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Daughter Joy | George Constantin (Character) | - | 1950 |
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It's a Great Feeling | Self | - | 1949 |
71% |
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House of Strangers | Gino Monetti (Character) | - | 1949 |
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All My Sons | Joe Keller (Character) | - | 1948 |
97% |
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Key Largo | Johnny Rocco (Character) | - | 1948 |
80% |
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Night Has a Thousand Eyes | John Triton (Character) | - | 1948 |
83% |
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The Red House | Pete Morgan (Character) | - | 1947 |
97% |
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The Stranger | Mr. Wilson (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Journey Together | Dean McWilliams (Character) | - | 1945 |
100% |
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Scarlet Street | Christopher Cross (Character) | - | 1945 |
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Our Vines Have Tender Grapes | Martinius Jacobson (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tampico | Capt. Bart Manson (Character) | - | 1944 |
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Mr. Winkle Goes to War | Wilbert Winkle (Character) | - | 1944 |
97% |
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Double Indemnity | Barton Keyes (Character) | - | 1944 |
83% |
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The Woman in the Window | Professor Richard Wanley (Character) | - | 1944 |
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Flesh and Fantasy | Marshall Tyler (Character) | - | 1943 |
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Destroyer | Steve Boleslavski (Character) | - | 1943 |
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Tales of Manhattan | Avery L. "Larry" Browne (Character) | - | 1942 |
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Larceny, Inc. | 'Pressure' Maxwell (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Moscow Strikes Back | Narrator | - | 1942 |
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Manpower | Hank "Gimpy" McHenry (Character) | - | 1941 |
100% |
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The Sea Wolf | "Wolf" Larsen (Character) | - | 1941 |
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Unholy Partners | Bruce Corey (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Dispatch From Reuters | Paul Julius Reuter (Character) | - | 1940 |
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet | Dr. Paul Ehrlich (Character) | - | 1940 |
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Brother Orchid | Little John T. "Johnny" Sarto (Character) | - | 1940 |
100% |
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy | Edward "Ed" Renard (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blackmail | John R. Ingram (Character) | - | 1939 |
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I Am the Law | John Lindsay (Character) | - | 1938 |
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Dr. Clitterhouse (Character) | - | 1938 |
67% |
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A Slight Case of Murder | Remy Marco (Character) | - | 1938 |
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Thunder in the City | Dan Armstrong (Character) | - | 1937 |
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The Last Gangster | Joe Krozac (Character) | - | 1937 |
100% |
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Kid Galahad | Nick "Nicky" Donati (Character) | - | 1937 |
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Bullets or Ballots | Johnny Blake (Character) | - | 1936 |
92% |
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Barbary Coast | Luis Chamalis (Character) | - | 1935 |
100% |
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The Whole Town's Talking | Arthur Ferguson Jones (Character) | - | 1935 |
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The Man With Two Faces |
Damon Welles/ |
- | 1934 |
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Dark Hazard | Jim "Buck" Turner (Character) | - | 1934 |
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The Little Giant | Bugs Ahearn (Character) | - | 1933 |
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I Loved a Woman | John Mansfield Hayden (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Silver Dollar | Yates Martin (Character) | - | 1933 |
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Tiger Shark | Mike Mascarenhas (Character) | - | 1932 |
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Two Seconds | John Allen (Character) | - | 1932 |
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The Hatchet Man | Wong Low Get (Character) | - | 1932 |
91% |
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Five Star Final | Randall (Character) | - | 1931 |
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Smart Money | Nick "The Barber" Venizelos (Character) | - | 1931 |
96% |
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Little Caesar |
Little Caesar/ |
- | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | East Is West | Charlie Yong (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Outside the Law | Cobra Collins (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Lady to Love | Tony (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Widow From Chicago | Dominic (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hole in the Wall | The Fox (Character) | - | 1929 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bright Shawl | Unknown (Character) | - | 1923 |
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No Score Yet | 100% | Night Gallery | Unknown (Character) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Guest | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1953 1956 1960 1962 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1954 |