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{{Short description|American actor (1893–1973)}}
{{Other people|Edward Robinson|Edward Robinson (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Edward G. Robinson
| image              = Edward G. Robinson 1948.jpg
| caption            = Robinson in 1948
| birth_name         = Emanuel Goldenberg
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1893|12|12}}
| birth_place        = [[Bucharest]], Kingdom of Romania
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1973|01|26|1893|12|12}}
| death_place        = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| resting_place      = Beth El Cemetery, [[Ridgewood, Queens]]
| nationality        = American
| occupation         = Actor
| years_active       = 1913–1973
| awards             = {{plainlist|
*[[Academy Honorary Award|Honorary Academy Award]] (1973)
*[[Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award]] (1969)}}
| children           = [[Edward G. Robinson Jr.]]
| spouse             = {{plainlist|
*{{Marriage|Gladys Lloyd|1927|1956|end=div}}
*{{Marriage|Jane Robinson|1958}}}}
}}
'''Edward G. Robinson''' (born '''Emanuel Goldenberg'''; December 12, 1893{{spaced ndash}}January 26, 1973) was an American<!--Do NOT add "Romanian", see [[MOS:NATIONALITY]].--> actor of stage and screen, who was popular during [[Classical Hollywood cinema|Hollywood's Golden Age]]. He appeared in 30 Broadway plays,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/edward-g-robinson-5280|title=Edward G. Robinson – Broadway Cast & Staff {{!}} IBDB|website=IBDB|access-date=April 10, 2020}}</ref> and more than 100 films, during a 50-year career,<ref name=NYT/> and is best remembered for his tough-guy roles as gangsters in such films as ''[[Little Caesar (film)|Little Caesar]]'' and ''[[Key Largo (film)|Key Largo]]''. During his career, Robinson received the [[Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor]] for his performance in ''[[House of Strangers]]''. In 1999, he is ranked number 24 in the [[American Film Institute]]'s list of the 25 [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars|greatest male stars of Classic American cinema]].

During the 1930s and 1940s, Robinson 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#Second Red Scare .281947.E2.80.9357.29|Red Scare]], but he was cleared of any deliberate [[Communism|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".<ref name=huac52>{{Cite report|url=https://archive.org/stream/communistinfiltr07unit#page/2421/mode/1up|title = Communist infiltration of Hollywood motion-picture industry: Hearing before the Committee on Un-American activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, first session|date=30 April 1952|page=2421}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=March 12, 2016|title=Actor Edward G. Robinson Confesses to HUAC — "I Was a Sucker"|url=http://todayinclh.com/?event=actor-edward-g-robinson-confesses-to-huac-i-was-a-sucker|access-date=April 30, 2021|website=Today in Civil Liberties History|language=en-US}}</ref> 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 (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]'', and his final performance in the [[Science fiction|science-fiction]] story ''[[Soylent Green]]''.<ref name="obit">Obituary ''[[Variety Obituaries|Variety]]'', January 31, 1973, p. 71.</ref> Robinson received an [[Academy Honorary Award]] for his work in the film industry, which was awarded two months after he died in 1973. Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited him as one of the best actors never to have received an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nomination.<ref>{{cite news|last=Robey|first=Tim|date=1 February 2016|title=20 great actors who've never been nominated for an Oscar|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/what-to-watch/oscars-best-actors-never-nominated/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/what-to-watch/oscars-best-actors-never-nominated/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=17 October 2022}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Singer|first=Leigh|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2009/feb/19/best-actors-never-nominated-for-oscars|title=Oscars: the best actors never to have been nominated|work=The Guardian |location=UK |date=February 19, 2009|access-date=September 17, 2022}}</ref>

==Early years and education==
Robinson was born Emanuel Goldenberg ({{Langx|yi|עמנואל גאָלדענבערג}}) on December 12, 1893, in a [[Yiddish]]-speaking [[History of the Jews in Romania|Romanian Jewish]] family in [[Bucharest]], the fifth son of Sarah (née Guttman) and Yeshaya Moyshe Goldenberg (later called Morris in the U.S.), a builder.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Cinema of Edward G. Robinson |author-link=James Robert Parish |first1=James Robert |last1=Parish |first2=Alvin |last2=Marill |location=[[South Brunswick, New Jersey]] |publisher=A. S. Barnes |year=1972 |isbn=0-498-07875-2 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=NoAdAQAAIAAJ&q=Emanuel+Goldenberg+bucharest 16]}}</ref>

According to the ''New York Times'', one of his brothers was attacked by an [[Antisemitism|anti-semitic]] gang during a "schoolboy pogrom".<ref name=NYT/> In the wake of that violence, the family decided to [[Emigration|emigrate]] to the United States.<ref name=NYT/> Robinson arrived in [[New York City]] on February 21, 1904.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/img_passlists/?name=Manole_Goldenberg&birth=1895&birth_x=0-0-0&name_x=1_1|publisher=[[Ancestry.com]]|title=1904 passenger list entry for Manole Goldenberg}}</ref> "At [[Ellis Island]] I was born again," he wrote. "Life for me began when I was 10 years old."<ref name=NYT/> In America, he assumed the name of Edward. He grew up on the [[Lower East Side]],<ref name="SRoss91">{{cite book |last=Ross |first=Steven J.|author-link=Steven J. Ross (historian)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N4TMYCIt5ywC&pg=PA91 |title=Hollywood Left and Right. How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-19-518172-2 |pages=125 |access-date=March 20, 2012}}</ref>{{rp|91}} and had his [[Bar and bat mitzvah|bar mitzvah]] at the [[First Roumanian-American Congregation]].<ref name=Epstein2007p249>[[#refEpstein2007|Epstein (2007)]], p. 249</ref> He attended [[Townsend Harris High School]] and then the [[City College of New York]], planning to become a criminal attorney.<ref name=encyc>Pendergast, Tom. Ed. ''St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture'', Vol. 4, pp. 229–230</ref> An interest in acting and performing in front of people led to him winning an [[American Academy of Dramatic Arts]] [[scholarship]],<ref name=encyc/> after which he changed his name to ''Edward G. Robinson'' (the G. standing for his original [[surname]]).<ref name=encyc/>

He served in the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War I]], but was not sent overseas.<ref name="RBeck">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OcKSCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA334| title= Edward G. Robinson Encyclopedia | last= Beck | first=Robert | date= September 2, 2008 | publisher= McFarland| isbn= 9780786438648 | access-date= January 14, 2016}}</ref>

==Career==
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===Theatre===

Robinson's first foray in professional theatre was in a 1913 production of ''Paid in Full'' staged in [[Binghamton, New York]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Luther |first1=Roger |title=The Stone Opera House: Historic Binghamton Theater Faces "Demolition by Neglect" |url=http://nyslandmarks.com/treasures/09jan.htm |website=Treasures of the Tier |access-date=21 August 2025 |date=11 January 2009}}</ref>
In 1915, Robinson made his [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] debut in Roi Cooper Megrue's ''Under Fire''. Because of his physical features he was often cast as foreign characters in plays on the Broadway stage; including a Swede in Henning Berger's ''The Deluge'' (1917), a Filipino in Azelle M. Aldrich and Joseph Noll's ''The Pawn'' (1917), and a French-Canadian in [[Harry James Smith]]'s ''The Little Teacher'' (1918).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/edwardgrobinson00hirs/page/18/mode/2up|title=Edward G. Robinson|last=Hirsch|first= Foster|year=1975|publisher=[[Pyramid Publications]]|isbn=9780515036428|page=18}}</ref>

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]]''.<ref name=NYT/>

===''The Racket''===
He played a snarling gangster in the 1927 [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] police/crime drama ''[[The Racket (1927 play)|The Racket]]'', which led to his being cast in similar film roles, beginning with ''[[The Hole in the Wall (1929 film)|The Hole in the Wall]]'' (1929) with [[Claudette Colbert]] for [[Paramount Pictures|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 Pictures|Universal]] for ''[[Night Ride (1930 film)|Night Ride]]'' (1930) and MGM for ''[[A Lady to Love]]'' (1930) directed by [[Victor Sjöström]]. At Universal he was in ''[[Outside the Law (1930 film)|Outside the Law]]'' and ''[[East Is West (1930 film)|East Is West]]'' (both 1930), then he did ''[[The Widow from Chicago]]'' (1931) at [[First National Pictures|First National]].

===''Little Caesar''===
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 (film)|Little Caesar]]'' (1931) at [[Warner Bros]].

Robinson signed a long-term contract with Warner Bros., casting him in another gangster film, ''[[Smart Money (1931 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 (film)|Tiger Shark]]'' (1932).

Warner Bros. tried him in a biopic, ''[[Silver Dollar (film)|Silver Dollar]]'' (1932), where Robinson played [[Horace Tabor]]; a comedy, ''[[The Little Giant (1933 film)|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 film)|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 (film)|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 film)|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 film)|I Am the Law]]'' (1938).

===World War II===
At the time [[World War II]] broke out in Europe, he played an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent in ''[[Confessions of a Nazi Spy]]'' (1939), the first American film that portrayed [[Nazism]] as a threat to the United States.

MGM borrowed him for ''[[Blackmail (1939 film)|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).<ref name=B&B>Schatz, Thomas. ''Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s''. University of California Press, November 23, 1999, p. 99.</ref> Both films were biographies of prominent Jewish public figures. In between, he and Bogart starred in ''[[Brother Orchid]]'' (1940).<ref name=B&B/>

Robinson was teamed up with [[John Garfield]] in ''[[The Sea Wolf (1941 film)|The Sea Wolf]]'' (1941), and [[George Raft]] in ''[[Manpower (1941 film)|Manpower]]'' (1941). He went to MGM for ''[[Unholy Partners]]'' (1942), and made a comedy ''[[Larceny, Inc.]]'' (1942).

He volunteered for military service in June 1942 but was disqualified as he was aged 48;<ref name="Wise">Wise, James: ''Stars in Khaki: Movie Actors in the Army and Air Services''. Naval Institute Press, 2000. {{ISBN|1-55750-958-1}}. p. 228.</ref> he was an active and vocal critic of [[fascism]] and Nazism during the war.<ref name="SRoss99"/>

===Post-Warner Bros.===
Robinson was one of several stars in ''[[Tales of Manhattan]]'' (1942) and ''[[Flesh and Fantasy]]'' (1943).

He did war films: ''[[Destroyer (1943 film)|Destroyer]]'' (1943) at [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]], and ''[[Tampico (film)|Tampico]]'' (1944) at [[20th Century Fox|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;{{clarify|date=August 2022}} 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 film)|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 film)|The Stranger]]'' (1946), with Welles and [[Loretta Young]]. Robinson followed it with another thriller, ''[[The Red House (film)|The Red House]]'' (1947), and starred in an adaptation of ''[[All My Sons (film)|All My Sons]]'' (1948).

Robinson appeared for director [[John Huston]] as the gangster Johnny Rocco in ''[[Key Largo (film)|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===
Robinson found it hard to get work after his [[Greylisting (employment)|greylisting]]. He starred in modest-budget films: ''[[Actors and Sin]]'' (1952), ''[[Vice Squad (1953 film)|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 (film)|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 film)|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-communism|anti-communist]] film director [[Cecil B. DeMille]] cast him as the traitorous [[Dathan]] in ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]''. The film was released in 1956, as was his psychological thriller ''[[Nightmare (1956 film)|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 comedy ''[[A Hole in the Head]]''.

===Supporting actor===
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 film)|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 film)|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 film)|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 (actor)|Maurice Evans]].

His later appearances included ''[[The Biggest Bundle of Them All]]'' (1968) starring [[Robert Wagner]] and [[Raquel Welch]], ''[[Never a Dull Moment (1968 film)|Never a Dull Moment]]'' (1968) with [[Dick Van Dyke]], ''[[It's Your Move (1968 film)|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.'"<ref name="SRoss91"/>{{rp|124}}

Robinson was never nominated for an [[Academy Award]], but in 1973 he was awarded an [[Academy Honorary Award|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".<ref name=NYT/> 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.<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|title=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|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/27/archives/edward-g-robinson-79-dies-his-little-caesar-set-a-style-man-of.html |work=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 27, 1973|first=Alden|last=Whitman}}</ref>

===Radio===
From 1937 to 1942, Robinson starred as Steve Wilson, editor of the ''Illustrated Press'', in the newspaper drama ''[[Big Town]]''.<ref name="dunningota">{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22Big+Town,+crime+drama%22+%22Edward+G+Robinson%22&pg=PA88 |last=Dunning |first=John |author-link=John Dunning (detective fiction author) |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |pages=88–89 |edition=Revised |section=Big Town |access-date=2019-10-01}}</ref> He also portrayed hardboiled detective [[Sam Spade]] for a [[Lux Radio Theatre]] adaptation of ''[[The Maltese Falcon (novel)|The Maltese Falcon]]''. During the 1940s he performed on CBS Radio's "Cadena de las Américas" 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]].<ref name="books.google.com">[https://books.google.com/books?id=Qx00pQIkclMC&q=Edward+G.+Robinson&pg=PA166 ''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</ref>

==Political activism==
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.<ref name="SRoss99">Ross, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=N4TMYCIt5ywC&pg=PA99 99–102]</ref> After the [[Operation Barbarossa|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".<ref name="SRoss91"/>{{rp|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;<ref name="Wise"/> instead, the [[Office of War Information]] appointed him as a Special Representative based in London.<ref name="SRoss91"/>{{rp|106}} From there, taking advantage of his multilingual skills, he delivered radio addresses in over six languages to European countries that had fallen under [[German-occupied Europe|Nazi domination]].<ref name="SRoss91"/>{{rp|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 (ideology)|Americanism]] through his stirring patriotic appeals".<ref name="SRoss91"/>{{rp|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 [[1944 Democratic National Convention|reelection]] that same year.<ref name="SRoss91"/>{{rp|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 de las Américas" radio network.<ref name="books.google.com"/>

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]].<ref name="SRoss91"/>{{rp|106}}<ref>{{cite AV media| title=D-Day to Germany: Cameraman Jack Lieb comments on original footage of 1944-45 |time=28:43|time-caption=Robinson with the troops in France at|medium=Video|publisher=Chronos|via=YouTube | date=10 December 2016| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4kmRTZrgMQ}}</ref> He personally donated [[US$]]100,000 (equal to ${{Inflation|US|100000|1944|fmt=c}} today) to the USO.<ref name="SRoss91"/>{{rp|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, and appearing at rallies to help sell [[war bonds]].<ref name="SRoss91"/>{{rp|107}}
After the war ended, Robinson publicly spoke out in support of [[Civil and political rights|democratic rights]] for all Americans, especially in demanding equality for [[African Americans|Black]] workers in the workplace. He endorsed the [[Fair Employment Practices Commission]]'s call to end workplace discrimination.<ref name="SRoss91"/>{{rp|109}} Black leaders praised him as "one of the great friends of the Negro and a great advocator of Democracy".<ref name="SRoss91"/>{{rp|109}} Robinson also campaigned for the civil rights of African Americans, helping many to overcome [[Racial segregation in the United States|segregation]] and [[Racism in the United States|discrimination]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i9lBP_ObhRkC&q=Edward+G.+Robinson+African+American+civil+rights&pg=PA213|title=The Way We Really Were: The Golden State in the Second Great War|last=Lotchin|first=Roger W.|date=2000|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=9780252068195|language=en}}</ref>

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 [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]. However, according to the film historian [[Steven J. Ross (historian)|Steven J. Ross]] "activists who attacked Hitler without simultaneously attacking [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] were vilified by [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] critics as either Communists, Communist dupes, or, at best, as [[Naivety|naïve]] [[Liberalism in the United States|liberal]] dupes."<ref name="SRoss91"/>{{rp|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.<ref>Miller, Frank. ''Leading Men'', Chronicle Books and TCM (2006) p. 185</ref> 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 [[Hollywood blacklist|blacklisting]].<ref name=sabin-35>Sabin, Arthur J. ''In Calmer Times: The Supreme Court and Red Monday'', p. 35. Philadelphia: [[University of Pennsylvania]] Press, 1999</ref>

As shown in the full House Un-American Activities Committee transcript for April 30, 1952,<ref name=huac52/> Robinson repudiated some of the organizations that he had belonged to in the 1930s and 1940s.<ref name=sabin-35/><ref>Bud and Ruth Schultz, ''It Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression in America'', p. 113. Berkeley: [[University of California Press]], 1989.</ref> 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."<ref name="SRoss91"/>{{rp|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] [[Edward Dmytryk|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."<ref name=huac52/> 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.''<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Ross|first=Stephen J.| title=Little Caesar and the McCarthyist Mob -reprinted from ''Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics''
|magazine=USC Trojan Family Magazine|publisher=University of Southern California|date=Autumn 2011| url=http://tfm.usc.edu/autumn-2011/little-caesar-and-the-mccarthyist-mob | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527111522/http://tfm.usc.edu/autumn-2011/little-caesar-and-the-mccarthyist-mob | archive-date=27 May 2013 | url-status=dead }}</ref> 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."<ref name="SRoss91"/>{{rp|122}}

==Personal life==
[[File:Edward G. Robinson Edward G. Robinson, Jr. Zane Grey Theater 1962.JPG|thumb|Robinson and his son Manny in a 1962 episode of ''[[Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre]]'']]

Robinson married stage actress Gladys Lloyd Cassell in 1927. The couple had a son, [[Edward G. Robinson Jr.]] (1933–1974), known as Manny, and a daughter from Gladys Robinson's first marriage.<ref>{{cite news |date=February 27, 1974 |title=Edward G. Robinson, Jr. Is Dead; Late Screen Star's Son Was 40 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/27/archives/edward-g-robinson-jr-is-dead-late-screen-stars-son-was-40.html |access-date=July 21, 2007 |quote=}}</ref> The couple divorced in 1956. In 1958, Robinson married Jane Bodenheimer, a dress designer professionally known as Jane Arden. They lived in [[Palm Springs, California]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Meeks |first1=Eric G. |title=The Best Guide Ever to Palm Springs Celebrity Homes |date=2012 |publisher=Horatio Limburger Oglethorpe |isbn=978-1479328598 |page=91}}</ref>

In contrast to the gangsters he portrayed in film, Robinson was a soft-spoken and cultured man.<ref name=NYT/> He was a passionate art collector, eventually building up a significant private [[Collection (museum)|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.<ref name="SRoss91"/>{{rp|120}}

==Death==
[[File:Edward G. Robinson star.png|thumb|left|Robinson's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.]]
Robinson died of [[bladder cancer]] at [[Cedars-Sinai Medical Center|Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles]]<ref>Gansberg, [https://books.google.com/books?id=pOtGs2gBwCEC&pg=PA246 p. 246], [https://books.google.com/books?id=pOtGs2gBwCEC&pg=PA252 252–253].</ref> 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.<ref name="NYT" /> More than 1,500 friends of Robinson attended, with another 500 people outside.<ref name="SRoss91"/> His body was flown to New York where it was entombed in a crypt in his family's mausoleum at Beth-El Cemetery in Queens.<ref name="Beck">{{Cite book |last=Beck |first=Robert |title=The Edward G. Robinson Encyclopedia |publisher=McFarland |year=2002 |pages=131}}</ref> His pallbearers were [[Jack L. Warner]], [[Hal B. Wallis]], [[Mervyn LeRoy|Mervyn Leroy]], [[George Burns]], [[Sam Jaffe]], [[Frank Sinatra]], Jack Karp and Alan Simpson.<ref name=NYT/>

==In popular culture==
[[File:Edward g robinson.jpg|thumb|Robinson as a gangster in ''[[Little Caesar (film)|Little Caesar]]'' (1931)]]

In October 2000, Robinson's image was imprinted on a U.S. postage stamp, the sixth in its Legends of Hollywood series.<ref name="SRoss91"/>{{rp|125}}<ref>[http://previews.123rf.com/images/neftali77/neftali771111/neftali77111100294/11805178-UNITED-STATES-OF-AMERICA-CIRCA-2000-A-stamp-printed-in-USA-shows-Edward-G-Robinson-actor-Legends-of--Stock-Photo.jpg Edward G. Robinson stamp], 2000</ref>

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 and Mugsy|Rocky]], featured in the [[Bugs Bunny]] cartoon ''[[Racketeer Rabbit]]'', shared his likeness. This version of the character also appears briefly in ''[[Justice League (TV series)|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 (1968 TV series)|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 ''[[The Simpsons|Simpsons]]'' character police chief [[Chief Wiggum|Clancy Wiggum]] is an impression of Robinson.<ref name=tvguide>{{cite news|title=Flash! 24 Simpsons Stars Reveal Themselves|date=October 21, 2000|work=[[TV Guide]]|author=Joe Rhodes}}</ref>

Robinson was portrayed by actor [[Michael Stuhlbarg]] in the 2015 biographical drama film ''[[Trumbo (2015 film)|Trumbo]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vancheri|first=Barbara|title=Michael Stuhlbarg plays Edward G. Robinson in 'Trumbo'|url=https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/movies/2015/11/25/Michael-Stuhlbarg-plays-Edward-G-Robinson-in-Trumbo/stories/201511250060 |date=November 25, 2015|access-date=September 16, 2023 |website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette}}</ref>

==Selected filmography==
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! Role
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| 1916 || ''[[Arms and the Woman]]'' || Factory Worker || || Uncredited, some sources only<ref>{{AFI film|id=1842|title=Arms and the Woman}}</ref>
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| 1923 || ''[[The Bright Shawl]]'' || Domingo Escobar || [[Richard Barthelmess]], [[William Powell]] and [[Mary Astor]] || Credited as E.G. Robinson
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| 1929 || ''[[The Hole in the Wall (1929 film)|The Hole in the Wall]]'' || The Fox || [[Claudette Colbert]] || 
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| rowspan=8 | 1930 || ''[[Outside the Law (1930 film)|Outside the Law]]'' || Cobra Collins || || 
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| ''[[A Lady to Love]]'' || Tony || || 
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| ''[[East Is West (1930 film)|East Is West]]'' || Charlie Yong || [[Lupe Vélez]] and [[Lew Ayres]] || 
|-
| ''[[Night Ride (1930 film)|Night Ride]]'' || Tony Garotta || [[Joseph Schildkraut]] || 
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| ''Die Sehnsucht jeder Frau'' || Tony || || German language version of ''A Lady to Love''<ref>{{AFI film|id=8753|title=Die Sehnsucht Jeder Frau}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[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 (actor)|Neil Hamilton]] || 
|-
| rowspan=5 | 1931 || ''How I Play Golf by Bobby Jones No. 10: Trouble Shots'' || Himself || || Short subject <br /> Uncredited
|-
| ''[[Little Caesar (film)|Little Caesar]]'' || Little Caesar – Alias 'Rico' || [[Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.]] || 
|-
| ''[[The Stolen Jools]]'' || Gangster || [[Wallace Beery]] and [[Buster Keaton]] || Segment "At the Police Station" <br />Short subject
|-
| ''[[Smart Money (1931 film)|Smart Money]]'' || Nick Venizelos || [[James Cagney]] and [[Boris Karloff]] || 
|-
| ''[[Five Star Final]]'' || Randall || [[Boris Karloff]] || 
|-
| rowspan=4 | 1932 || ''[[The Hatchet Man]]'' || Wong Low Get || [[Loretta Young]] || 
|-
| ''[[Two Seconds]]'' || John Allen || || 
|-
| ''[[Tiger Shark (film)|Tiger Shark]]'' || Mike Mascarenhas || [[Richard Arlen]] || 
|-
| ''[[Silver Dollar (film)|Silver Dollar]]'' || Yates Martin || [[Bebe Daniels]] || 
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1933 || ''[[The Little Giant (1933 film)|The Little Giant]]'' || Bugs Ahearn || [[Mary Astor]] || 
|-
| ''[[I Loved a Woman]]'' || John Mansfield Hayden || [[Kay Francis]] || 
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1934 || ''[[Dark Hazard]]'' || Jim 'Buck' Turner || || 
|-
| ''[[The Man with Two Faces (1934 film)|The Man with Two Faces]]'' || Damon Welles / Jules Chautard || [[Mary Astor]] || 
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1935 || ''[[The Whole Town's Talking]]'' || Arthur Ferguson Jones/"Killer" Mannion || [[Jean Arthur]] || 
|-
| ''[[Barbary Coast (film)|Barbary Coast]]'' || Luis Chamalis || [[Miriam Hopkins]], [[Joel McCrea]], [[Walter Brennan]], [[Brian Donlevy]] and [[Harry Carey (actor)|Harry Carey]] || 
|-
| 1936 || ''[[Bullets or Ballots]]'' || Detective Johnny Blake || [[Joan Blondell]] and [[Humphrey Bogart]] || 
|-
| rowspan=4 | 1937 || ''[[Thunder in the City]]'' || Dan Armstrong || [[Ralph Richardson]] || 
|-
| ''A Day at Santa Anita'' || Himself || || Short subject <br /> Uncredited
|-
| ''[[Kid Galahad (1937 film)|Kid Galahad]]'' || Nick Donati || [[Bette Davis]], [[Humphrey Bogart]] and [[Harry Carey (actor)|Harry Carey]] || 
|-
| ''[[The Last Gangster]]'' || Joe Krozac || [[James Stewart]] || 
|-
| rowspan=3 | 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 (1938 film)|I Am the Law]]'' || Prof. John Lindsay || || 
|-
| rowspan=3 | 1939 || ''Verdensberømtheder i København'' || Himself || || Documentary
|-
| ''[[Confessions of a Nazi Spy]]'' || Edward Renard || [[George Sanders]], [[Paul Lukas]] and [[Ward Bond]] || 
|-
| ''[[Blackmail (1939 film)|Blackmail]]'' || John R. Ingram || [[Gene Lockhart]] || 
|-
| rowspan=3 | 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]] || 
|-
| rowspan=4 | 1941 || ''[[The Sea Wolf (1941 film)|The Sea Wolf]]'' || 'Wolf' Larsen || [[Ida Lupino]], [[John Garfield]], [[Gene Lockhart]] and [[Barry Fitzgerald]] || 
|-
| ''[[Manpower (1941 film)|Manpower]]'' || Hank McHenry || [[Marlene Dietrich]], [[George Raft]] and [[Ward Bond]] || 
|-
| ''Polo with the Stars'' || Himself – Watching Polo Match || || Short subject <br /> Uncredited
|-
| ''[[Unholy Partners]]'' || Bruce Corey || [[Edward Arnold (actor)|Edward Arnold]] || 
|-
| rowspan=3 | 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
|-
| rowspan=3 | 1943 || ''Magic Bullets'' || Narrator || || Short subject <br /> Documentary
|-
| ''[[Destroyer (1943 film)|Destroyer]]'' || Steve Boleslavski || [[Glenn Ford]] || 
|-
| ''[[Flesh and Fantasy]]'' || Marshall Tyler || [[Charles Boyer]] and [[Barbara Stanwyck]] || Episode 2
|-
| rowspan=4 | 1944 || ''[[Tampico (film)|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 (1944 film)|The Woman in the Window]]'' || Professor Richard Wanley || [[Joan Bennett]] and [[Raymond Massey]] || 
|-
| rowspan=3 | 1945 || ''[[Our Vines Have Tender Grapes]]'' || Martinius Jacobson || [[Agnes Moorehead]] || 
|-
| ''[[Journey Together]]'' || Dean McWilliams || [[Richard Attenborough]] || 
|-
| ''[[Scarlet Street]]'' || Christopher Cross || [[Joan Bennett]] || 
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1946 || ''American Creed'' || Himself || || Short subject
|-
| ''[[The Stranger (1946 film)|The Stranger]]'' || Mr. Wilson || [[Loretta Young]] and [[Orson Welles]] || 
|-
| 1947 || ''[[The Red House (1947 film)|The Red House]]'' || Pete Morgan || || 
|-
| rowspan=3 | 1948 || ''[[All My Sons (film)|All My Sons]]'' || Joe Keller || [[Burt Lancaster]] || 
|-
| ''[[Key Largo (film)|Key Largo]]'' || Johnny Rocco || [[Humphrey Bogart]], [[Lauren Bacall]], [[Lionel Barrymore]] and [[Claire Trevor]] || 
|-
| ''[[Night Has a Thousand Eyes]]'' || John Triton || || 
|-
| rowspan=2 | 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 (1950 film)|Operation X]]'' || George Constantin || || 
|-
| 1952 || ''[[Actors and Sin]]'' || Maurice Tillayou || || Segment "Actor's Blood"
|-
| rowspan=3 | 1953 || ''[[Vice Squad (1953 film)|Vice Squad]]'' || Capt. 'Barnie' Barnaby || [[Paulette Goddard]] || 
|-
| ''[[Big Leaguer]]'' || John B. 'Hans' Lobert || [[Carl Hubbell]] || 
|-
| ''[[The Glass Web]]'' || Henry Hayes || [[John Forsythe]] || 
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1954 || ''[[Black Tuesday (1954 movie)|Black Tuesday]]'' || Vincent Canelli || [[Peter Graves]] || 
|-
| ''For the Defense'' || Matthew Considine || || TV movie
|-
| rowspan=4 | 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 (1955 film)|Illegal]]'' || Victor Scott || [[Jayne Mansfield]] || 
|-
| rowspan=3 | 1956 || ''[[Hell on Frisco Bay]]'' || Victor Amato || [[Alan Ladd]] || 
|-
| ''[[Nightmare (1956 film)|Nightmare]]'' || Rene Bressard || || 
|-
| ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|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]] || 
|-
| rowspan=4 | 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 (1960 film)|Pepe]]'' || Himself || || 
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1962 || ''[[My Geisha]]'' || Sam Lewis || [[Shirley MacLaine]] || 
|-
| ''[[Two Weeks in Another Town]]'' || Maurice Kruger || [[Kirk Douglas]] and [[Claire Trevor]]) || 
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1963 || ''[[Sammy Going South]]'' || Cocky Wainwright ||[[Fergus McClelland]] || Alternative title: ''A Boy Ten Feet Tall''
|-
| ''[[The Prize (1963 film)|The Prize]]'' || Dr. Max Stratman || [[Paul Newman]] || 
|-
| rowspan=4 | 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 (actor)|Neil Hamilton]] || 
|-
| ''[[Cheyenne Autumn]]'' || Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz || [[Richard Widmark]], [[Karl Malden]], [[Ricardo Montalbán]] and [[James Stewart]] || 
|-
| ''[[The Outrage]]'' || Con Man || [[Paul Newman]], [[Claire Bloom]] and [[William Shatner]] || 
|-
| rowspan=2 | 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 (TV series)|Batman]]'' || Cameo || || 
|-
| rowspan=4 | 1967 || ''All About People'' || Narrator || || Short subject
|-
| ''[[The Blonde from Peking]]'' || Douglas – chef C.I.A. || || 
|-
| ''[[Grand Slam (1967 film)|Grand Slam]]'' || Prof. James Anders || [[Janet Leigh]] || 
|-
| ''[[Operation St. Peter's]]'' || Joe Ventura || || 
|-
| rowspan=3 | 1968 || ''[[The Biggest Bundle of Them All]]'' || Professor Samuels || [[Robert Wagner]] and [[Raquel Welch]] || 
|-
| ''[[Never a Dull Moment (1968 film)|Never a Dull Moment]]'' || Leo Joseph Smooth || [[Dick Van Dyke]] || 
|-
| ''[[It's Your Move (1969 film)|It's Your Move]]'' || Sir George McDowell || || 
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1969 || ''[[Mackenna's Gold]]'' || Old Adams || [[Gregory Peck]] || 
|-
| ''[[Medical Center (TV series)#Pilot|U.M.C.]]'' || Dr. Lee Forestman || || Alternative title: ''Operation Heartbeat'' <br /> TV movie
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1970 || ''[[The Old Man Who Cried Wolf]]'' || Emile Pulska || [[Martin Balsam]] and [[Ed Asner]] || TV Movie
|-
| ''[[Song of Norway (film)|Song of Norway]]'' || Krogstad || [[Florence Henderson]] || 
|-
| rowspan=3 | 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]] || Posthumous release (final film role)
|-
|}

==Radio appearances==
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! Year !! Program !! Episode/source
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| 1940|| ''[[The Screen Guild Theater|Screen Guild Theatre]]'' || ''[[Blind Alley (film)|Blind Alley]]''<ref>{{cite news| title=Sunday Caller| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2851042/harrisburg_telegraph/| newspaper=Harrisburg Telegraph| date=February 24, 1940| page=17| via=[[Newspapers.com]]| access-date=July 20, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref>
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| 1946|| ''[[Suspense (radio drama)|Suspense]]'' || ''The Man Who Wanted to Be Edward G. Robinson'' aka ''The Man Who Thought He Was Edward G. Robinson''<ref>{{cite news| title=The Man Who Wanted to Be Edward G. Robinson | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3335151/harrisburg_telegraph/| newspaper=Harrisburg Telegraph| date=October 12, 1946| page=17|via=Newspapers.com| access-date=October 1, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.otrsite.com/logs/logs1003.htm|title = Suspense .. Episodic log}}</ref>
|-
| 1946|| ''This Is Hollywood'' || ''[[The Stranger (1946 film)|The Stranger]]''<ref name=nd/>
|-
| 1950|| ''[[Screen Directors Playhouse]]'' || ''[[The Sea Wolf (1941 film)|The Sea Wolf]]''<ref name=nd>{{cite magazine| title=Those Were the Days| magazine=Nostalgia Digest| date=Summer 2016| volume=42| issue=3| page=39}}</ref>
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book| last=Gansberg| first=Alan L.| title=Little Caesar: A Biography of Edward G. Robinson| year=2004| publisher=Scarecrow Press| isbn=978-0-8108-4950-1| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pOtGs2gBwCEC}}
* {{cite book| last=Epstein| first=Lawrence Jeffrey| title=Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York's Lower East Side, 1880–1920| publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]]| year=2007| isbn=978-0-7879-8622-3| ref=refEpstein2007}}
* {{cite book |last1=Robinson| first1=Edward G.| last2=Spigelgass| first2=Leonard| title=All My Yesterdays; an Autobiography|url=https://archive.org/details/allmyyesterdaysa00robi|url-access=registration| year=1973| publisher=Hawthorn Books| lccn=73005443}}

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