Dudley Digges
Known for Acting · 41 credits
- Born
- 1879-06-08
- Died
- 1947-10-24
- Place of birth
- Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]
- Also known as
- Dudley Diggs · John Dudley Digges
Biography
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.
Known For
Movies (41)
The Invisible Man
1933
as Chief Detective
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935
as Bacchus
China Seas
1935
as Dawson
The General Died at Dawn
1936
as Mr. Wu
Emperor Jones
1933
as Smithers
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942
as Pratt
Before Dawn
1933
as Horace Merrick
The World Moves On
1934
as Mr. Manning
Caravan
1934
as Estate Administrator
The Mayor of Hell
1933
as Thompson
Love Is News
1937
as Cyrus Jeffrey
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
as Self (archive footage)
Raffles
1939
as MacKenzie
Kind Lady
1935
as Mr. Edwards
The Maltese Falcon
1931
as Casper Gutman
Alexander Hamilton
1931
as Senator Timothy Roberts
Outward Bound
1930
as Thompson, the Examiner
The Ruling Voice
1931
as Abner Sneed
What Every Woman Knows
1934
as James Wylie
The Light That Failed
1939
as The Nilghai
Fury of the Jungle
1933
as 'Doc' Parrish
The Voice of Bugle Ann
1936
as Jacob Terry
The Bishop Misbehaves
1935
as Red
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
as Dennis Ringrose
Massacre
1934
as Elihu P. Quissenberry
Devotion
1931
as Sergeant Herbert Coggins
Tess of the Storm Country
1932
as Captain Howland
Three Live Ghosts
1936
as Inspector Briggs
Roar of the Dragon
1932
as Johnson
I Am a Thief
1934
as Col. Jackson
The Silk Express
1933
as Professor Axel Nyberg
The Fight for Life
1940
as Chefarzt
The Searching Wind
1946
as Moses Taney
The Hatchet Man
1932
as Nog Hong Fah
Condemned!
1929
as Jean Vidal
The King's Vacation
1933
as Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain
The Narrow Corner
1933
as Doctor Saunders
The Unguarded Hour
1936
as Samuel Metford
The First Year
1932
as Dr. Anderson
A Notorious Gentleman
1935
as Marleyborne
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
1932
as Detective Garrison
About 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 musical… With 41 credits spanning from 1929 to 1975, Dudley Digges has appeared in 41 films and 0 TV shows.
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- The Invisible Man (1933) — as Chief Detective
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) — as Bacchus
- China Seas (1935) — as Dawson
- The General Died at Dawn (1936) — as Mr. Wu
- Emperor Jones (1933) — as Smithers
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