
Dudley Digges
Biography
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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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Acting (40 movies)

The Invisible Man
1933

Mutiny on the Bounty
1935

The Maltese Falcon
1931

Emperor Jones
1933

China Seas
1935

The Mayor of Hell
1933

Devotion
1931

Outward Bound
1930

Condemned!
1929

The General Died at Dawn
1936

The Hatchet Man
1932

Before Dawn
1933

The King's Vacation
1933

The Strange Case of Clara Deane
1932

I Am a Thief
1934

Raffles
1939

The Voice of Bugle Ann
1936

Kind Lady
1935

The Ruling Voice
1931

The Light That Failed
1939

Massacre
1934

The Unguarded Hour
1936

What Every Woman Knows
1934

The Searching Wind
1946

Alexander Hamilton
1931

The Narrow Corner
1933

Tess of the Storm Country
1932

The Silk Express
1933

Roar of the Dragon
1932

A Notorious Gentleman
1935

Fury of the Jungle
1933

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936

Caravan
1934

The Bishop Misbehaves
1935

Love Is News
1937

Three Live Ghosts
1936

The First Year
1932

The World Moves On
1934

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
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