Edward Robinson

Edward Robinson

• Birth Name Emmanuel Goldenberg
• Nickname Eddie
  
• Biography Edward G. Robinson arrived in the United States at age ten, and his family moved into New York's Lower East Side. He took up acting while attending City College, abandoning plans to become a rabbi or ...
  
• Write biography Ed Stephan <[email protected]>
  
• Spouse Gladys Lloyd (21 January 1927 - 1956) (divorced); 1 child
  Jane Robinson (II) (16 January 1958 - 26 January 1973) (his death)
  
• Other Work Playwright (with Jo Swerling): "The Kibitzer"
  (1957) Magazine advertisement: Heublein Cocktails.
  He was the voice of the "frog" in the "Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse" (1960) cartoon series.
  Played Dr. Zaius in the original 1966 test film shot with Charlton Heston for Planet of the Apes (1968). He had to drop out of the rolewhen production started on the film a year later because he didn'...
  Stage: Appeared in "The Racket", Belasco Theater, San Francisco.
  (1915) Stage: Appeared [Broadway debut] in "Under Fire" on Broadway. Written and co-directed by Roi Cooper Megrue. Co-directed by William Courtenay. Hudson Theatre: 11 Sep 1915-Jan 1916 (closing date ...
  
• Biography print Edward G. Robinson, with Leonard Spigelgass. _All My Yesterdays._ New York: Hawthorn Books, 1973.ISBN 049101810X
  Robert Beck. _The Edward G. Robinson Encyclopedia._ Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Inc., 2001.ISBN 0786412305
  Alan L. Gansberg. _Little Caesar: Biography of Edward G. Robinson._ New English Library, 1983.ISBN 0450060047
  Alvin Marill. _The Complete Films of Edward G. Robinson._ Carol Publishing Corp., 1990.ISBN 0806511818
  James Robert Parish, Alvin Marill. _The Cinema of Edward G. Robinson._ South Brunswick, NJ: A.S. Barnes, 1972.ISBN 0498078752
  R. Serra. _Manny (a play)._ 1979.
  
• Personal quotes If I were just a bit taller and I was a little more handsome orsomething like that, I could have played all the roles that I haveplayed, and played many more. There is such a thing as a handicap, buty...
  [on Double Indemnity (1944)] It was, in fact, the third lead. Idebated accepting it. Emanuel Goldberg told me that at my age itwas time to begin thinking of character roles, to slide into middle andol...
  I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings.They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.
  To last you need to be real.
  To be entrusted with a character was always a big responsibility to me.
  To my mind, the actor has this great responsibility of playing anotherhuman being . . . it's like taking on another person's life and youhave to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.
  
• Portrayed in Hollywood Steps Out (1941)
  Thugs with Dirty Mugs (1939)
  What's Cookin' Doc? (1944)
  Hollywood Canine Canteen (1946)
  Hush My Mouse (1946)
  I Like Mountain Music (1933/I)
  
• Salary
• Pictorial "Playboy" (USA), November 1965, Vol. 12, Iss. 11, pg. 153, by: Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert, "The history of sex in the cinema - Part Six : The thirties - Censorship and the Depression"
  "Picture Post" (UK), 14 November 1942, Vol. 17, Iss. 7, pg. 24, "Little Caesar Comes to Help"
  
• Biographical movie Edward G. Robinson: Little Big Man (1996) (TV)
  
• Filmography

  Meurtres à l'Empire State Building (2008) (TV) Crime

  1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009) (TV) Documentary

  Cheyenne Autumn (1964) History

  Cineastas contra magnates (2005) Biography

  Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2006) (TV) Biography

  You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008) (V) Documentary

  The Slippery Pearls (1931) Comedy

  Big Leaguer (1953) Sport

  Breakdowns of 1941 (1941) Comedy

  Soylent Green (1973) Sci-Fi