After working steadily for 15 years on Broadway, he made his film debut with a small part in the 1923 silent film The Bright Shawl. It wasn't until the invention of talkies that Robinson's career hit its full stride, earning him film noir tough-guy status in films such as Little Caesar (1931) and Key Largo (1948). Other notable films include Double Indemnity and Some Like It Hot (1959).
After his death on Jan. 26, 1973, Robinson was honored with a posthumous lifetime achievement Academy Award that same year.
AddFilm Noir Collection: The StrangerDirected by and starring Orson Welles, this Academy Award-nominated film tells the story of Franz Kindler, a Nazi war criminal who has fled to Connecticut and assumed a new identity: Prof. Charles Rankin. While an Allied War Crimes Commission detective (the indomitable Edward G. Robinson) hunts down... Read More
AddThe Woman in the WindowLegendary filmmaker Fritz Lang directs this psychological thriller about an unassuming college professor (Edward G. Robinson) who becomes involved with a beautiful model (Joan Bennett) and finds himself ensnared in a web of blackmail, deception and murder. A masterful storyteller, Lang is in top... Read More
AddFilm Noir Collection: Scarlet StreetUnassuming cashier Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) falls hard when he meets Kitty (Joan Bennett). They become involved, but Kitty keeps a petty crook, Johnny (Dan Duryea), on the side as her real love interest. Hoping to impress Kitty, Cross embezzles funds from his employer. What he doesn't... Read More
AddLittle CaesarNoted for Edward G. Robinson's breakthrough performance, this gangster classic centers on Rico "Little Caesar" Bandelli (Robinson), who stages an all-out coup to become mob boss. After moving to the city, Rico and pal Joe (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) join Sam Vettori's (Stanley Fields) gang. Rico rises... Read More
AddIllegal / The Big StealClassic Hollywood stars Edward G. Robinson and Robert Mitchum collide in a pair of pitch-black noir thrillers from the 1940s and '50s -- Illegal (1955) and The Big Steal (1949). In the first film, Robinson plays a retired district attorney who agrees to help a mob boss get his buddy out of a jam.... Read More
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