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