I write the name–Edward G. Robinson–with reverence, for I am a connoisseur of gangster dying styles, and Edward G. Robinson set the standard by which all others must be measured.

The first film in this new genre, Little Caesar, depicted the rise of a small-town mobster to the upper echelons of organized crime. Appearing in 1930, it starred Edward G. Robinson as Caesar ...

This 1931 classic featured Edward G. Robinson in the titular role, helping launch him into a long career playing many, many characters on the wrong side of the law.

He was the unlikeliest of film stars – a squat, heavyset man with coyote-ugly looks. But in a film career that spanned 40 years, Edward G. Robinson proved to be one of the most indelible pres… ...

Here the gangster is played by Edward G. Robinson, in his first film for Warner Bros., and he is without question the most compelling and attractive thing in it.

Edward G. Robinson played gangster Johnny Rocco in a 1948 film called "Key Largo." If you drive just over 500 miles north northwest from Key Largo, you'll reach this city which happens to be the ...