Editing Edward G. Robinson (section)

===World War II===
At the time [[World War II]] broke out in Europe, he played an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent in ''[[Confessions of a Nazi Spy]]'' (1939), the first American film that portrayed [[Nazism]] as a threat to the United States.

MGM borrowed him for ''[[Blackmail (1939 film)|Blackmail]]'' (1939). Then, to avoid being typecast, he played the biomedical scientist and Nobel laureate [[Paul Ehrlich]] in ''[[Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet]]'' (1940) and played [[Paul Julius Reuter]] in ''[[A Dispatch from Reuters]]'' (1940).<ref name=B&B>Schatz, Thomas. ''Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s''. University of California Press, November 23, 1999, p. 99.</ref> Both films were biographies of prominent Jewish public figures. In between, he and Bogart starred in ''[[Brother Orchid]]'' (1940).<ref name=B&B/>

Robinson was teamed up with [[John Garfield]] in ''[[The Sea Wolf (1941 film)|The Sea Wolf]]'' (1941), and [[George Raft]] in ''[[Manpower (1941 film)|Manpower]]'' (1941). He went to MGM for ''[[Unholy Partners]]'' (1942), and made a comedy ''[[Larceny, Inc.]]'' (1942).

He volunteered for military service in June 1942 but was disqualified due to his age which was 48,<ref name="Wise">Wise, James: ''Stars in Khaki: Movie Actors in the Army and Air Services''. Naval Institute Press, 2000. {{ISBN|1-55750-958-1}}. p. 228.</ref> although he became an active and vocal critic of [[fascism]] and Nazism during that period.<ref name="SRoss99"/>