Dudley Digges
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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.
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Acting
Movie
The Invisible Man
as Chief Detective
1933
Movie
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Bacchus
1935
Movie
The Maltese Falcon
as Casper Gutman
1931
Movie
China Seas
as Dawson
1935
Movie
The Mayor of Hell
as Thompson
1933
Movie
Emperor Jones
as Smithers
1933
Movie
The General Died at Dawn
as Mr. Wu
1936
Movie
Raffles
as MacKenzie
1939
Movie
Kind Lady
as Mr. Edwards
1935
Movie
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Pratt
1942
Movie
Condemned!
as Jean Vidal
1929
Movie
The World Moves On
as Mr. Manning
1934
Movie
Outward Bound
as Thompson, the Examiner
1930
Movie
The Hatchet Man
as Nog Hong Fah
1932
Movie
Massacre
as Elihu P. Quissenberry
1934
Movie
Love Is News
as Cyrus Jeffrey
1937
Movie
Before Dawn
as Horace Merrick
1933
Movie
The Ruling Voice
as Abner Sneed
1931
Movie
The Light That Failed
as The Nilghai
1939
Movie
Alexander Hamilton
as Senator Timothy Roberts
1931
Movie
The Narrow Corner
as Doctor Saunders
1933
Movie
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
as Dennis Ringrose
1936
Movie
The Silk Express
as Professor Axel Nyberg
1933
Movie
The Voice of Bugle Ann
as Jacob Terry
1936