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Edward G. Robinson

1893 - 1973

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Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was an American actor of stage and screen, who was popular during Hollywood's Golden Age. He appeared in 30 Broadway plays, and more than 100 films, during a 50-year career, and is best remembered for his tough-guy roles as gangsters in such films as Little Caesar and Key Largo. During his career, Robinson received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in House of Strangers. During the 1930s and 1940s, he was an outspoken public critic of fascism and Nazism, which were growing in strength in Europe in the years which led up to World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward G. Robinson has received more than 4,545,186 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Edward G. Robinson is the 524th most popular actor (up from 753rd in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Romania (up from 74th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Romanian Actor.

Edward G. Robinson was an American actor who was known for playing gangsters in movies. He starred in the films Little Caesar, The Petrified Forest, and Key Largo.

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  • 4.5M

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  • 62.25

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  • 49

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  • 4.02

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  • 4.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Edward G. Robinson ranks 524 out of 9,996Before him are Cillian Murphy, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Gena Rowlands, Jean-Pierre Léaud, and Joaquin Phoenix. After him are Rade Šerbedžija, Jean Rochefort, Margot Robbie, Winona Ryder, Elliott Gould, and Richard Dreyfuss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Edward G. Robinson ranks 37Before him are Leslie Howard, Mae West, Jomo Kenyatta, Prajadhipok, Hans Fallada, and Viktor Shklovsky. After him are Lili Boulanger, Qazi Muhammad, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, Miroslav Krleža, Hattie McDaniel, and Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. Among people deceased in 1973, Edward G. Robinson ranks 45Before him are Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Amílcar Cabral, Lex Barker, Elsa Schiaparelli, Ingeborg Bachmann, and François Cevert. After him are Howard H. Aiken, Gerard Kuiper, Frank Costello, Taha Hussein, Emmy Göring, and W. H. Auden.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Edward G. Robinson ranks 53 out of 665Before him are Sergiu Celibidache (1912), Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1820), Alexander Löhr (1885), Mircea I of Wallachia (1355), Basarab I of Wallachia (1275), and Ilie Năstase (1946). After him are György Dózsa (1470), Sigismund Báthory (1572), Traian Băsescu (1951), Panait Istrati (1884), Mihnea cel Rău (1462), and David Wechsler (1896).

Among ACTORS In Romania

Among actors born in Romania, Edward G. Robinson ranks 2Before him are Bela Lugosi (1882). After him are Maria Tănase (1913), Sebastian Stan (1982), Maia Morgenstern (1962), John Houseman (1902), Ágnes Esterházy (1891), Lupu Pick (1886), Marcel Iureș (1951), Natalya Varley (1947), Alexandra Maria Lara (1978), and Júlia Sigmond (1929).

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