
Dudley Digges
Born
June 8, 1879
Died
October 24, 1947 (68 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]
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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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Known For

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
1975

The Searching Wind
Moses Taney
1946

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Pratt
1942
The Fight for Life
Chefarzt
1940

The Light That Failed
The Nilghai
1939

Raffles
MacKenzie
1939

Love Is News
Cyrus Jeffrey
1937

The General Died at Dawn
Mr. Wu
1936

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Dennis Ringrose
1936

The Unguarded Hour
Samuel Metford
1936

The Voice of Bugle Ann
Jacob Terry
1936

Three Live Ghosts
Inspector Briggs
1936

Kind Lady
Mr. Edwards
1935

Mutiny on the Bounty
Bacchus
1935

The Bishop Misbehaves
Red
1935

China Seas
Dawson
1935

A Notorious Gentleman
1935

Caravan
Estate Administrator
1934

I Am a Thief
Col. Jackson
1934

What Every Woman Knows
James Wylie
1934

The World Moves On
Mr. Manning
1934

Massacre
Elihu P. Quissenberry
1934

The Invisible Man
Chief Detective
1933

Fury of the Jungle
'Doc' Parrish
1933

Emperor Jones
Smithers
1933

Before Dawn
Horace Merrick
1933

The Narrow Corner
Doctor Saunders
1933

The Mayor of Hell
Thompson
1933

The Silk Express
Professor Axel Nyberg
1933

The King's Vacation
Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain
1933

Tess of the Storm Country
Captain Howland
1932

The First Year
Dr. Anderson
1932

Roar of the Dragon
Johnson
1932

The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Detective Garrison
1932

The Hatchet Man
Nog Hong Fah
1932

Devotion
Sergeant Herbert Coggins
1931

Alexander Hamilton
Senator Timothy Roberts
1931

The Ruling Voice
Abner Sneed
1931

The Maltese Falcon
Casper Gutman
1931

Outward Bound
Thompson, the Examiner
1930

Condemned!
Jean Vidal
1929