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Dudley Digges

Acting Born Jun 8, 1879 Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland] 24 credits

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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

Film

The Invisible Man

as Chief Detective

Full filmography

  • The Invisible Man (1933) as Chief Detective
  • Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936) as Dennis Ringrose
  • The Silk Express (1933) as Professor Axel Nyberg
  • Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) as Bacchus
  • The Maltese Falcon (1931) as Casper Gutman
  • China Seas (1935) as Dawson
  • Kind Lady (1935) as Mr. Edwards
  • Caravan (1934) as Estate Administrator
  • The World Moves On (1934) as Mr. Manning
  • The Light That Failed (1939) as The Nilghai
  • What Every Woman Knows (1934) as James Wylie
  • The General Died at Dawn (1936) as Mr. Wu
  • The Mayor of Hell (1933) as Thompson
  • Before Dawn (1933) as Horace Merrick
  • Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) as Pratt
  • The Fight for Life (1940) as Chefarzt
  • Raffles (1939) as MacKenzie
  • Roar of the Dragon (1932) as Johnson
  • The Voice of Bugle Ann (1936) as Jacob Terry
  • The First Year (1932) as Dr. Anderson
  • Love Is News (1937) as Cyrus Jeffrey
  • The Narrow Corner (1933) as Doctor Saunders
  • The King's Vacation (1933) as Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain
  • Fury of the Jungle (1933) as 'Doc' Parrish