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person_profile-Dudley Digges

Dudley Digges Died at age: 68

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Dudley Digges

Date of Birth:

Jun 08, 1879

Country of birth:

UK [now Republic Of Ireland]

Died:

Oct 24, 1947

Biography of

Dudley Digges

    ​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.

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Filmography of

Dudley Digges

Found 40 Movies in total

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1975

The Searching Wind

Moses ( Actor )

... 1946

... 1942

The Light That Failed

The Nilghai ( Actor )

... 1939

Raffles

MacKenzie ( Actor )

... 1939

Love Is News

Cyrus Jeffrey ( Actor )

... 1937

... 1936

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

Dennis Ringrose ( Actor )

... 1936

The Unguarded Hour

Samuel Metford ( Actor )

... 1936

The Voice of Bugle Ann

Jacob Terry ( Actor )

... 1936

Three Live Ghosts

Inspector Briggs ( Actor )

... 1936

Kind Lady

Mr. Edwards ( Actor )

... 1935

Mutiny on the Bounty

Bacchus ( Actor )

... 1935

... 1935

China Seas

Dawson ( Actor )

... 1935

... 1935

Caravan

Estate Administrator ( Actor )

... 1934

I Am a Thief

Col. Jackson ( Actor )

... 1934

What Every Woman Knows

James Wylie ( Actor )

... 1934

The World Moves On

Mr. Manning ( Actor )

... 1934

Massacre

Elihu P. Quissenberry ( Actor )

... 1934

The Invisible Man

Chief Detective ( Actor )

... 1933

Fury of the Jungle

'Doc' Parrish ( Actor )

... 1933

Emperor Jones

Smithers ( Actor )

... 1933

Before Dawn

Horace Merrick ( Actor )

... 1933

The Narrow Corner

Doctor Saunders ( Actor )

... 1933

The Mayor of Hell

Thompson ( Actor )

... 1933

The Silk Express

Professor Axel Nyberg ( Actor )

... 1933

The King's Vacation

Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain ( Actor )

... 1933

Tess of the Storm Country

Captain Howland ( Actor )

... 1932

The First Year

Dr. Anderson ( Actor )

... 1932

Roar of the Dragon

Johnson ( Actor )

... 1932

The Strange Case of Clara Deane

Detective Garrison ( Actor )

... 1932

The Hatchet Man

Nog Hong Fah ( Actor )

... 1932

Devotion

Sergeant Herbert Coggins ( Actor )

... 1931

Alexander Hamilton

Senator Timothy Roberts ( Actor )

... 1931

The Ruling Voice

Abner Sneed ( Actor )

... 1931

The Maltese Falcon

Casper Gutman ( Actor )

... 1931

Outward Bound

Thompson, the Examiner ( Actor )

... 1930

Condemned!

Jean Vidal ( Actor )

... 1929