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In May 2020, he was honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month.

Pictured on a 33¢ USA commemorative postage stamp in the Legends of Hollywood series, issued 24 October 2000.

The inspiration for the voice of Chief Clancy Wiggum (Hank Azaria) on The Simpsons (1989).

His great grandson Adam Edward Sanchez, via granddaughter Francesca and her husband Ricardo, was born 10 years after his death on February 5, 1983.

Died two weeks after he had finished filming Soylent Green (1973).

He was considered for the role of Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972) before Marlon Brando was cast.

Was originally slated to play Dr. Zaius in Planet of the Apes (1968) but dropped out due to heart problems.

Robinson suffered a heart attack while filming A Boy Ten Feet Tall (1963) in Africa,.

He was originally offered the role of Little Bonaparte in Some Like It Hot (1959), but Robinson had vowed never again to work with George Raft, with whom he had a fist fight on the set of Manpower (1941) when for a scene Raft spun him around too hard. (Despite the avowal, Robinson did co-star with Raft in A Bullet for Joey (1955)) However, the role of Johnny Paradise, the kid homaging Raft's "cheap trick" of coin-flipping, is also the man with the Tommy gun in the birthday cake who mows down Spats and his gang. The actor is Edward G. Robinson Jr..

In 1956 he had to sell off his extensive art collection in a divorce settlement and also had to deal with a psychologically troubled son.

In 1956 he returned to Broadway in "Middle of the Night".

Co-starred with Nina Foch in Illegal (1955) and The Ten Commandments (1956).

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953.

On 30 April 1952 Robinson "named names" of Communist sympathizers (Albert Maltz, Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Frank Tuttle, and Sidney Buchman) and publicly repudiated some of the left-wing organizations he had belonged to in the 1930s and 1940s.

He was "absolved" of allegations of Communist affiliation after testifying as a friendly witness for the House Un-American Activities Committee during the McCarthy hysteria of the early 1950s.

In 1949 he was investigated by the California Senate's Fact Finding Committee on Un-American Activities (colloquially known as the "Tenney Committee" after Committee Chairman Jack Tenney). Tenney claimed that Robinson, an unabashed progressive Democrat, was "frequently involved in Communist fronts and causes".

Another notable gangster role was in Key Largo (1948).

Co-starred with Joan Bennett in The Woman in the Window (1944) and Scarlet Street (1945).

Psychological dramas included Flesh and Fantasy (1943), Double Indemnity (1944), The Woman in the Window (1944)and Scarlet Street (1945).

According to the March 31, 1941, issue of "Time" magazine, he and Melvyn Douglas bid $3,200 for the fedora hat that Franklin D. Roosevelt had worn during his three successful campaigns for the presidency. They acquired the hat at a special Hollywood auction to benefit the Motion Picture Relief Fund. Both Robinson and Douglas were identified as "loyal Democrats". Robinson would later be "grey-listed" during the McCarthy Red Scare hysteria of the 1950s and have to make his living on stage.

Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) and A Dispatch from Reuters (1940).

Became a father at age 39 when his 1st [later ex] wife Gladys Lloyd gave birth to their son Edward G. Robinson Jr. on March 19, 1933.

His stellar performance as snarling, murderous thug Rico Bandello in Little Caesar (1931)--all the more impressive since in real life Robinson was a sophisticated, cultured man with a passion for fine art--set the standard for movie gangsters, both for himself in many later films and for the industry. He portrayed the title character in several biographical works, such as Dr.

His film debut was a small supporting part in the silent The Bright Shawl (1923), but it was with the coming of sound that he hit his stride.

Emanuel Goldenberg arrived in the United States from Romania 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 lawyer. The American Academy of Dramatic Arts awarded him a scholarship, and he began work in stock, with his new name, Edward G. Robinson (the "G" stood for his birth surname), in 1913. Broadway was two years later; he worked steadily there for 15 years. His work included "The Kibitzer", a comedy he co-wrote with Jo Swerling.