Born Emanuel Goldenberg to the Jewish family in Bucharest, he emigrated with his personal to New York in 1903. He attended Townsend Harris High School and then City College of New York, but an interest around acting led to him winning an American Academy of Dramatic Arts scholarship, where he changed his title to Edward G. Robinson (a G. signifying his really title). He began his acting career around 1913 and made his Broadway debut in 1915. He manufactured his film debut around the super minor & uncredited role around 1916; in 1923 he made his known when debut as E. G. Robinson in The Bright Shawl. One of numbers of actors world health organization saw his career flourish in the fresh healthy film era like than hesitation, he mass produced just trinity films before 1930 but left his stage career that year & mass produced xiv films inside 1930-32. He married a actress Gladys Lloyd inside 1927.

a stunning performance when the mobster Rico Bandello inside Little Caesar (1931) led to him being typecast as a 'hard' for lot of his early career within works like Five Star Final (1931), Tiger Shark (1932), Kid Galahad (1937), and A Slight Case of Murder (1938). In the Forties, when a good performance in ''Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940), he expanded into edgy psychological dramas including Double Indemnity (1944), The Woman in the Window (1945) and Scarlet Street (1945); but he continued to accept gangster roles such as that of Johnny Rocco in the classic Key Largo (1948), one of five films he made with Humphrey Bogart. He was the popular pack-professional draw & was respire to refrain from flops.

In the Fifties he was known as to testify before of the House Un-American Activities Committee, where he was cleared of tons suspicion. Inside 1956 he had to sell off his big art collection for $3.25 million when section of his divorcement award sustaining Lloyd. That equivalent month he returned to Broadway around Middle of the Night.

Never nominative for an Academy Award, inside 1973 he was awarded an honorary Oscar in recognition that he got "achieved greatness as a player, a patron of the arts, and a dedicated citizen ... in sum, a Renaissance man"; sadly, he died ii months before its formal presentation at a age of 79 from either cancer.

He is interred at Beth El Cemetery inside Brooklyn, New York. His go role was within Soylent Green'' (1973).

Hank Azaria mimicked Robinson's voice for the character of Chief Wiggum on The Simpsons.

Filmography
Arms and the Woman (1916) The Bright Shawl (1923) The Hole in the Wall (1929) Warner Bros. Jubilee Dinner (1930) (short subject) Night Ride (1930) A Lady to Love (1930) Outside the Law (1930) East Is West (1930) The Widow from Chicago (1930) How I Play Golf by Bobby Jones No. 10: Trouble Shots (1931) (short subject) Little Caesar (1931) The Slippery Pearls (1931) (short subject) 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) ''The Whole Town's Talking (1935) Barbary Coast (1935) Bullets or Ballots (1936) Thunder in the City (1937) Kid Galahad (1937) The Last Gangster (1937) A Slight Case of Murder (1938) The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) I Am the Law (1938) Verdensberomtheder i Kobenhavn (1939) (documentary) A Day at Santa Anita (1939) (short subject) Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) Blackmail (1939) Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) Brother Orchid (1940) A Dispatch from Reuters (1940) The Sea Wolf (1941) Manpower (1941) Polo with the Stars (1941) (short subject) Unholy Partners (1941) Larceny, Inc. (1942) Tales of Manhattan (1942) Moscow Strikes Back (1942) (documentary) (teller) Magic Bullets (1943) (short subject) (narrator) Destroyer (1943) Flesh and Fantasy (1943) Tampico (1944) Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944) Double Indemnity (1944) The Woman in the Window (1945) Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945) Scarlet Street (1945) American Creed (1946) (short subject) Journey Together (1946) The Stranger (1946) The Red House (1947) All My Sons (1948) Key Largo (1948) Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) House of Strangers (1949) It's a Great Feeling (1949) (Cameo) Operation X (1950) Actors and Sin (1952) Vice Squad (1953) Big Leaguer (1953) The Glass Web (1953) Black Tuesday (1954) Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) The Violent Men (1955) Tight Spot (1955) A Bullet for Joey (1955) Illegal (1955) Nightmare (1956) The Ten Commandments (1956) The Heart of Show Business (1957) (short subject) (narrator) A Hole in the Head (1959) Seven Thieves (1960) Pepe (1960) (Cameo) My Geisha (1962) Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) A Boy Ten Feet Tall (1963) The Prize (1963) Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) (Cameo) Good Neighbor Sam (1964) Cheyenne Autumn (1964) The Outrage (1964) The Cincinnati Kid (1965) All About People (1967) (short subject) (narrator) Grand Slam (1967) The Blonde from Peking (1967) Operation St. Peter's (1967) The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) Never a Dull Moment (1968) It's Your Move (1969) Mackenna's Gold (1969) Song of Norway (1970) Mooch Goes to Hollywood (1971) (Cameo) Neither by Day Nor by Night (1972) A Look at the World of SOYLENT GREEN (1973) (short subject) Soylent Green'' (1973)