Dudley Digges
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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
Credits
The Invisible Man (1933)
as Chief Detective
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
as Bacchus
Before Dawn (1933)
as Horace Merrick
China Seas (1935)
as Dawson
The King's Vacation (1933)
as Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain
The Mayor of Hell (1933)
as Thompson
The General Died at Dawn (1936)
as Mr. Wu
The Maltese Falcon (1931)
as Casper Gutman
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
as Pratt
Love Is News (1937)
as Cyrus Jeffrey
The Strange Case of Clara Deane (1932)
as Detective Garrison
The Hatchet Man (1932)
as Nog Hong Fah
What Every Woman Knows (1934)
as James Wylie
I Am a Thief (1934)
as Col. Jackson
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)
as Dennis Ringrose
The Bishop Misbehaves (1935)
as Red
Condemned! (1929)
as Jean Vidal
The Voice of Bugle Ann (1936)
as Jacob Terry
The Light That Failed (1939)
as The Nilghai
The World Moves On (1934)
as Mr. Manning
The Unguarded Hour (1936)
as Samuel Metford
Devotion (1931)
as Sergeant Herbert Coggins
Kind Lady (1935)
as Mr. Edwards
The Narrow Corner (1933)
as Doctor Saunders
Outward Bound (1930)
as Thompson, the Examiner
Caravan (1934)
as Estate Administrator
Roar of the Dragon (1932)
as Johnson
Alexander Hamilton (1931)
as Senator Timothy Roberts
Raffles (1939)
as MacKenzie
Massacre (1934)
as Elihu P. Quissenberry
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
Three Live Ghosts (1936)
as Inspector Briggs
The First Year (1932)
as Dr. Anderson
Tess of the Storm Country (1932)
as Captain Howland
The Searching Wind (1946)
as Moses Taney
A Notorious Gentleman (1935)
as Marleyborne
The Fight for Life (1940)
as Chefarzt
The Ruling Voice (1931)
as Abner Sneed
Fury of the Jungle (1933)
as 'Doc' Parrish
Emperor Jones (1933)
as Smithers
The Silk Express (1933)
as Professor Axel Nyberg