Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 08, 1879
Died
Oct 24, 1947
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]
Credits
41 titles
Dudley Digges
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dudley Digges (June 9, 1879 – October 24, 1947) was an Irish character actor on stage and in motion pictures. He was born in Dublin. He went to America with a group of Irish players in 1904 and became successful both as an actor and producer. For a time he was stage manager to Charles Frohman and George Arliss. He went to Hollywood in 1930. On stage, one of his famous roles was as Ficsur in the original 1921 Broadway production of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, the play that Rodgers and Hammerstein later musicalized as Carousel. Ficsur was the criminal who talks Liliom into helping him commit a robbery; in Carousel, his name was changed to Jigger Craigin, but the character otherwise remained almost the same. He played the role of the Heavenly Examiner in both the original Broadway and the 1930 screen versions of Sutton Vane's hit play Outward Bound. Digges appeared in forty films between 1929 and 1946, including the original, nearly forgotten 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon, as Caspar Gutman, the character later made famous by Sydney Greenstreet in the 1941 Humphrey Bogart film version of the story. He also worked as a director on Broadway. In 1924, Digges founded the Maverick Theater, in Woodstock, New York, with the assistance of Hervey White, the founder of the Maverick Arts Colony. Digges was artistic director of a company that included Helen Hayes and Edward G. Robinson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dudley Digges (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
The Searching Wind
Moses Taney
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Pratt
The Fight for Life
Chefarzt
The Light That Failed
The Nilghai
Raffles
MacKenzie
Love Is News
Cyrus Jeffrey
The General Died at Dawn
Mr. Wu
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Dennis Ringrose
The Unguarded Hour
Samuel Metford
The Voice of Bugle Ann
Jacob Terry
Three Live Ghosts
Inspector Briggs
Kind Lady
Mr. Edwards
Mutiny on the Bounty
Bacchus
The Bishop Misbehaves
Red
China Seas
Dawson
A Notorious Gentleman
Marleyborne
Caravan
Estate Administrator
I Am a Thief
Col. Jackson
What Every Woman Knows
James Wylie
The World Moves On
Mr. Manning
Massacre
Elihu P. Quissenberry
The Invisible Man
Chief Detective
Fury of the Jungle
'Doc' Parrish
Emperor Jones
Smithers
Before Dawn
Horace Merrick
The Narrow Corner
Doctor Saunders
The Mayor of Hell
Thompson
The Silk Express
Professor Axel Nyberg
The King's Vacation
Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain
Tess of the Storm Country
Captain Howland
The First Year
Dr. Anderson
Roar of the Dragon
Johnson
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Detective Garrison
The Hatchet Man
Nog Hong Fah
Devotion
Sergeant Herbert Coggins
Alexander Hamilton
Senator Timothy Roberts
The Ruling Voice
Abner Sneed
The Maltese Falcon
Casper Gutman
Outward Bound
Thompson, the Examiner
Condemned!
Jean Vidal