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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 8, 1879
Died
October 24, 1947
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]
Also Known As
- Dudley Diggs
- John Dudley Digges
Dudley Digges
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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. 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.
Known For
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Self (archive footage)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
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Moses Taney
The Searching Wind
1946
7.2
Pratt
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942
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5.3
Chefarzt
The Fight for Life
1940
6.0
The Nilghai
The Light That Failed
1939
6.0
MacKenzie
Raffles
1939
6.0
Cyrus Jeffrey
Love Is News
1937
6.2
Mr. Wu
The General Died at Dawn
1936
6.4
Dennis Ringrose
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
6.2
Samuel Metford
The Unguarded Hour
1936
Credits
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
1975
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The Searching Wind
as Moses Taney
1946
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Pratt
1942
7.2
🎬
The Fight for Life
as Chefarzt
1940
5.3
The Light That Failed
as The Nilghai
1939
6.0
Raffles
as MacKenzie
1939
6.0
Love Is News
as Cyrus Jeffrey
1937
6.0
The General Died at Dawn
as Mr. Wu
1936
6.2
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
as Dennis Ringrose
1936
6.4
The Unguarded Hour
as Samuel Metford
1936
6.2
The Voice of Bugle Ann
as Jacob Terry
1936
5.8
Three Live Ghosts
as Inspector Briggs
1936
5.0
Kind Lady
as Mr. Edwards
1935
6.6
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Bacchus
1935
7.3
The Bishop Misbehaves
as Red
1935
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China Seas
as Dawson
1935
6.3
A Notorious Gentleman
1935
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Caravan
as Estate Administrator
1934
5.0
I Am a Thief
as Col. Jackson
1934
6.0
What Every Woman Knows
as James Wylie
1934
7.0
The World Moves On
as Mr. Manning
1934
5.6
Massacre
as Elihu P. Quissenberry
1934
5.8
The Invisible Man
as Chief Detective
1933
7.5
Fury of the Jungle
as 'Doc' Parrish
1933
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Emperor Jones
as Smithers
1933
5.6
Before Dawn
as Horace Merrick
1933
5.6
The Narrow Corner
as Doctor Saunders
1933
5.5
The Mayor of Hell
as Thompson
1933
7.2
The Silk Express
as Professor Axel Nyberg
1933
4.7
The King's Vacation
as Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain
1933
5.0
Tess of the Storm Country
as Captain Howland
1932
6.0
The First Year
as Dr. Anderson
1932
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Roar of the Dragon
as Johnson
1932
6.0
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
as Detective Garrison
1932
6.0
The Hatchet Man
as Nog Hong Fah
1932
4.9
Devotion
as Sergeant Herbert Coggins
1931
6.8
Alexander Hamilton
as Senator Timothy Roberts
1931
4.5
The Ruling Voice
as Abner Sneed
1931
6.0
The Maltese Falcon
as Casper Gutman
1931
6.4
Outward Bound
as Thompson, the Examiner
1930
5.9
Condemned!
as Jean Vidal
1929
6.5