Dudley Digges

Known for ActingBorn 1879-06-08Died 1947-10-24Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The First Year

The Searching Wind

What Every Woman Knows

The Invisible Man

Mutiny on the Bounty

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

Devotion

The Mayor of Hell

Fury of the Jungle

Tess of the Storm Country

Kind Lady

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

Condemned!

The Fight for Life

A Notorious Gentleman

Caravan

The General Died at Dawn

The Strange Case of Clara Deane

Roar of the Dragon

The Unguarded Hour

The Maltese Falcon

Love Is News

China Seas

I Am a Thief

Raffles

The Ruling Voice

Three Live Ghosts

The Bishop Misbehaves

Outward Bound

The World Moves On

The Light That Failed

The Narrow Corner

Before Dawn

The King's Vacation

Emperor Jones

The Voice of Bugle Ann

Massacre

The Hatchet Man

The Silk Express

Alexander Hamilton

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen