Dudley Digges
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 8, 1879
- Died
- October 24, 1947 (aged 68)
- Birthplace
- Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]
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
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Searching Wind
Movie · as Moses Taney
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Movie · as Pratt
The Fight for Life
Movie · as Chefarzt
Raffles
Movie · as MacKenzie
The Light That Failed
Movie · as The Nilghai
Love Is News
Movie · as Cyrus Jeffrey
The General Died at Dawn
Movie · as Mr. Wu
The Voice of Bugle Ann
Movie · as Jacob Terry
The Unguarded Hour
Movie · as Samuel Metford
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Movie · as Dennis Ringrose
Three Live Ghosts
Movie · as Inspector Briggs
Mutiny on the Bounty
Movie · as Bacchus
China Seas
Movie · as Dawson
Kind Lady
Movie · as Mr. Edwards
A Notorious Gentleman
Movie · as Marleyborne
The Bishop Misbehaves
Movie · as Red
I Am a Thief
Movie · as Col. Jackson
Massacre
Movie · as Elihu P. Quissenberry
What Every Woman Knows
Movie · as James Wylie
Caravan
Movie · as Estate Administrator
The World Moves On
Movie · as Mr. Manning
The Invisible Man
Movie · as Chief Detective
Emperor Jones
Movie · as Smithers
The Mayor of Hell
Movie · as Thompson
Before Dawn
Movie · as Horace Merrick
The King's Vacation
Movie · as Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain
The Narrow Corner
Movie · as Doctor Saunders
The Silk Express
Movie · as Professor Axel Nyberg
Fury of the Jungle
Movie · as 'Doc' Parrish
The Hatchet Man
Movie · as Nog Hong Fah
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Movie · as Detective Garrison
Tess of the Storm Country
Movie · as Captain Howland
Roar of the Dragon
Movie · as Johnson
The First Year
Movie · as Dr. Anderson
The Maltese Falcon
Movie · as Casper Gutman
Devotion
Movie · as Sergeant Herbert Coggins
The Ruling Voice
Movie · as Abner Sneed
Alexander Hamilton
Movie · as Senator Timothy Roberts
Outward Bound
Movie · as Thompson, the Examiner
Condemned!
Movie · as Jean Vidal