After getting his start in silent pictures, the cultured Edward G. Robinson became famous for playing the dirty Rico in the definitive gangster picture, Little Caesar. He often specialized in fast talking, grubby men who were tormented in one way or another.
His career blossomed even as he started taking supporting roles; his most famous remains that of Barton Keyes, the insurance investigator from Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity. A consummate professional, Robinson passed away in 1973.
Edward G. Robinson’s Pre-Code Filmography
- The Hole in the Wall (1929)
- Night Ride (1930)
- A Lady to Love (1930)
- Outside the Law (1930)
- East Is West (1930)
- The Widow from Chicago (1930)
- Little Caesar (1931)
- “The Stolen Jools” (1931)
- Smart Money (1931)
- Five Star Final (1931)
- The Hatchet Man (1932)
- Two Seconds (1932)
- Tiger Shark (1932)
- Silver Dollar (1932)
- The Little Giant (1933)
- I Loved a Woman (1933)
- Dark Hazard (1934)
- The Man with Two Faces (1934)
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