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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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Filmography (Movies)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:19/04/1975
The Searching Wind
Character:Moses Taney
Release Date:09/08/1946
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Character:Pratt
Release Date:29/01/1942
The Fight for Life
Character:Chefarzt
Release Date:07/03/1940
The Light That Failed
Character:The Nilghai
Release Date:24/12/1939
Raffles
Character:MacKenzie
Release Date:11/11/1939
Love Is News
Character:Cyrus Jeffrey
Release Date:26/02/1937
The General Died at Dawn
Character:Mr. Wu
Release Date:17/11/1936
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Character:Dennis Ringrose
Release Date:06/10/1936
The Unguarded Hour
Character:Samuel Metford
Release Date:10/04/1936
The Voice of Bugle Ann
Character:Jacob Terry
Release Date:15/02/1936
Three Live Ghosts
Character:Inspector Briggs
Release Date:10/01/1936
Kind Lady
Character:Mr. Edwards
Release Date:06/12/1935
Mutiny on the Bounty
Character:Bacchus
Release Date:22/11/1935
The Bishop Misbehaves
Character:Red
Release Date:13/09/1935
China Seas
Character:Dawson
Release Date:09/08/1935
A Notorious Gentleman
Character:Marleyborne
Release Date:21/01/1935
Caravan
Character:Estate Administrator
Release Date:30/12/1934
I Am a Thief
Character:Col. Jackson
Release Date:24/11/1934
What Every Woman Knows
Character:James Wylie
Release Date:18/10/1934
The World Moves On
Character:Mr. Manning
Release Date:27/06/1934
Massacre
Character:Elihu P. Quissenberry
Release Date:20/01/1934
The Invisible Man
Character:Chief Detective
Release Date:31/10/1933
Fury of the Jungle
Character:'Doc' Parrish
Release Date:23/10/1933
Emperor Jones
Character:Smithers
Release Date:29/09/1933
Before Dawn
Character:Horace Merrick
Release Date:04/08/1933
The Narrow Corner
Character:Doctor Saunders
Release Date:08/07/1933
The Mayor of Hell
Character:Thompson
Release Date:24/06/1933
The Silk Express
Character:Professor Axel Nyberg
Release Date:01/06/1933
The King's Vacation
Character:Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain
Release Date:25/02/1933
Tess of the Storm Country
Character:Captain Howland
Release Date:20/11/1932
The First Year
Character:Dr. Anderson
Release Date:30/07/1932
Roar of the Dragon
Character:Johnson
Release Date:08/07/1932
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Character:Detective Garrison
Release Date:06/05/1932
The Hatchet Man
Character:Nog Hong Fah
Release Date:06/02/1932
Devotion
Character:Sergeant Herbert Coggins
Release Date:25/09/1931
Alexander Hamilton
Character:Senator Timothy Roberts
Release Date:12/09/1931
The Ruling Voice
Character:Abner Sneed
Release Date:10/09/1931
The Maltese Falcon
Character:Casper Gutman
Release Date:23/05/1931
Outward Bound
Character:Thompson, the Examiner
Release Date:17/09/1930
Condemned!
Character:Jean Vidal
Release Date:03/11/1929
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