Edward G. Robinson Net Worth

Edward G. Robinson's Quotes

• If I were just a bit taller and I was a little more handsome or something like that, I could have played all the roles that I have played, and played many more. There is such a thing as a handicap, but you've got to be that much better as an actor. It kept me from certain roles that I might have had, but then, it kept others from playing my roles, so I don't know that it's not altogether balanced.
• [on Double Indemnity (1944)] It was, in fact, the third lead. I debated accepting it. Emanuel Goldberg told me that at my age it was time to begin thinking of character roles, to slide into middle and old age with the same grace as that marvelous actor Lewis Stone . . . The decision made itself . . It remains one of my favorites.
• 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.

Interesting Facts about Edward G. Robinson

1. 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.
2. Born at 5:00 a.m. LMT.
3. Interred at Beth El Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, in the Goodman Mausoleum.
4. Incredibly, never nominated for an Academy Award. He was awarded an Honorary Oscar two months after his death. His wife, who accepted for him, commented on how thrilled he was to learn he would be given the award.
5. Was originally slated to play Dr. Zaius in Apenplaneet (1968) but dropped out due to heart problems.
6. Pictured on a 33¢ USA commemorative postage stamp in the Legends of Hollywood series, issued 24 October 2000.
7. Father of Edward G. Robinson Jr..
8. Died two weeks after he had finished filming Soylent Green (1973).
9. The inspiration for the voice of Chief Clancy Wiggum (Hank Azaria) on The Simpsons (1989).
10. Although best known for playing fierce, shady little men, Robinson was well liked by almost everyone off-screen, having been a sensitive, quiet, artistic type when not performing.
11. Was named #24 greatest actor on The 50 Greatest Screen Legends by the American Film Institute
12. 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.
13. Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953.
14. Lived in a Yiddish community in Romania until he was 9.
15. Donated $100,000 to the United Service Organization (USO) during WW2. Like many celebrities, Robinson also pitched in at the Hollywood Canteen and, being multilingual (he reportedly spoke seven languages fluently, among them Yiddish, Romanian and German), worked on broadcasts to countries occupied by the Nazis.
16. Spoke seven other languages besides English, including Yiddish, Romanian and German.
17. When he died in 1973, he left an estate valued at $2,500,000 which largely consisted of rare works of art.
18. 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".
19. Robinson's fellow student and close friend at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts was Joseph Schildkraut, who remembered, 'I looked at the girls, but Manny stuck to his work'.
20. Robinson suffered a heart attack while filming Sammy Going South (1963) in Africa,.