Edward G Robinson (real name Emanuel Goldenberg) was a Romanian-born American actor. He was born in 1893 at Bucharest and died in 1973 of cancer. He arrived in the USA when he was ten years old and abandoned his plans to become either a rabbi or a lawyer after taking up acting at college. He appeared on Broadway in 1915, before making his film debut in the 1923 The Bright Shawl. Research Edward G Robinson