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  • BIRTH 08/06/1879
  • DEATH 24/10/1947
  • Country Ireland
  • MOVIES 10

Dudley Digges

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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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Dudley Digges

Movies (10)

The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man
Chief Detective
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Pratt
The Mayor of Hell
The Mayor of Hell
Thompson
China Seas
China Seas
Dawson
Mutiny on the Bounty
Mutiny on the Bounty
Bacchus
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
Love Is News
Love Is News
Cyrus Jeffrey
The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon
Casper Gutman
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Dennis Ringrose
The Emperor Jones
The Emperor Jones
Smithers