| His snarling,
cigar-chewing and venom spitting performance in “Little
Cesar,” made Edward G. Robinson a household name as a
gangster movie star. Most of the characters he played were hoodlums
and low-lives, but Robinson was a man of great versatility and
refinement. His roles in “Key Largo” with Humphrey
Bogart, “Double Indemnity”, “Dispatch from
Reuters” and Orson Welles’ “The Stranger”
were his most memorable, but he appeared in more than eighty
films in his career, with his final performance in the cult
classic “Soylent Green.”
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