Biography: life and films
Edward G. Robinson was an American actor whose birth name was Emanuel Goldenberg. He was born in Bucharest, Romania on 12th December 1893 and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on 26th January 1973, aged 79.His best films as an actor include John Ford's comedy-thriller The Whole Town's Talking (1935), Billy Wilder's crime-thriller Double Indemnity (1944), Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window (1944), Scarlet Street (1945) and John Huston's Key Largo (1948).
Edward G. Robinson appeared in 86 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Alfred E. Green (5 films), Mervyn LeRoy (4), Lloyd Bacon (3), William Dieterle (2), Victor Sjöström (2), Michael Curtiz (2), Lewis Allen (2), Julien Duvivier (2), John S. Robertson (2), John Ford (2), Howard Hawks (2), Fritz Lang (2) and Anatole Litvak (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (59 films), Thriller (18), comedy (13), romance (11), crime-thriller (11), comedy-drama (7), Western (5), War (4), Biography (4), comedy-thriller (3) and comedy-romance (2).
Our average rating for Edward G. Robinson over all films is: 3.1
Filmography
Key: a = actor; w = writer
Arms and the Woman (1916) [a]
The Bright Shawl (1923) [a]
The Hole in the Wall (1929) [a]
A Lady to Love (1930) [a]
Die Sehnsucht jeder Frau (1930) [a]
East Is West (1930) [a]
Night Ride (1930) [a]
Outside the Law (1930) [a]
The Kibitzer (1930) [w]
The Widow from Chicago (1930) [a]
Five Star Final (1931) [a]
Smart Money (1931) [a]
Silver Dollar (1932) [a]
The Hatchet Man (1932) [a]
Tiger Shark (1932) [a]
Two Seconds (1932) [a]
I Loved a Woman (1933) [a]
The Little Giant (1933) [a]
Dark Hazard (1934) [a]
The Man with Two Faces (1934) [a]
The Whole Town's Talking (1935) [a]
Kid Galahad (1937) [a]
The Last Gangster (1937) [a]
Thunder in the City (1937) [a]
A Slight Case of Murder (1938) [a]
I Am the Law (1938) [a]
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) [a]
Blackmail (1939) [a]
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) [a]
A Dispatch from Reuter's (1940) [a]
Brother Orchid (1940) [a]
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) [a]
Manpower (1941) [a]
The Sea Wolf (1941) [a]
Unholy Partners (1941) [a]
Larceny, Inc. (1942) [a]
Destroyer (1943) [a]
Flesh and Fantasy (1943) [a]
Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944) [a]
Tampico (1944) [a]
The Woman in the Window (1944) [a]
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945) [a]
The Red House (1947) [a]
All My Sons (1948) [a]
Key Largo (1948) [a]
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) [a]
My Daughter Joy (1950) [a]
Actor's and Sin (1952) [a]
Big Leaguer (1953) [a]
Vice Squad (1953) [a]
Black Tuesday (1954) [a]
A Bullet for Joey (1955) [a]
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) [a]
Illegal (1955) [a]
The Violent Men (1955) [a]
Tight Spot (1955) [a]
Nightmare (1956) [a]
The Ten Commandments (1956) [a]
A Hole in the Head (1959) [a]
Seven Thieves (1960) [a]
My Geisha (1962) [a]
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) [a]
Sammy Going South (1963) [a]
The Prize (1963) [a]
Cheyenne Autumn (1964) [a]
Good Neighbor Sam (1964) [a]
The Outrage (1964) [a]
Ad ogni costo (1967) [a]
La Blonde de Pékin (1967) [a]
Operazione San Pietro (1967) [a]
Never a Dull Moment (1968) [a]
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) [a]
Mackenna's Gold (1969) [a]
Uno Scacco tutto matto (1969) [a]
Song of Norway (1970) [a]
Lo B'Yom V'Lo B'Layla (1972) [a]
The best of British film comedies
The best of Russian cinema
The Carry On films, from the heyday of British film comedy
