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Death of Edward G. Robinson


According to Dick Van Patten Edward G. Robinson died that same evening of the final scene when he leads him to the room in the "Home Clinic" . The next day Charlton Heston had the whole cast meet in the studio and made the announcement. Van Patten also said it was the first time he'd met Robinson and he kept blowing the line; instead of "come with me Mr. Wilson", by mistake he said, "come with me Mr. Robinson".

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Damn, he really did blow that line. The character's name was Sol Roth. =P

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That's right! Wow, guess he had someone else's Soylent Green form (;-p)

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They said that Heston was the only one who knew how sick he was. His reaction in the final scene was because Heston realized this was the last time he was going to see his friend in action.

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Robinson died twelve days after filming his last scene for "Soylent Green".

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