Dudley Digges

Born: 1879-06-08

​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.


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The Invisible Man

as Chief Detective
Released: 1933-11-03

Working in Dr. Cranley's laboratory, scientist Jack Griffin was always given the latitude to...

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Mutiny on the Bounty

as Bacchus
Released: 1935-11-22

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS...

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The Maltese Falcon

as Casper Gutman
Released: 1931-05-23

A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly...

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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

as Pratt
Released: 1942-01-29

Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew...

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The Ruling Voice

as Abner Sneed
Released: 1931-09-10

A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.

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The General Died at Dawn

as Mr. Wu
Released: 1936-11-17

China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American...

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China Seas

as Dawson
Released: 1935-08-09

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret...

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Outward Bound

as Thompson, the Examiner
Released: 1930-09-17

A group of strangers find themselves aboard an unmanned ship, surrounded by fog and uncertain of...

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The King's Vacation

as Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain
Released: 1933-02-25

The king of an unnamed European country abdicates and tries to recapture the happiness with the...

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The Hatchet Man

as Nog Hong Fah
Released: 1932-02-06

When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.

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Condemned

as Jean Vidal
Released: 1929-11-03

Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the...

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Raffles

as MacKenzie
Released: 1939-11-11

Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring...

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Before Dawn

as Horace Merrick
Released: 1933-08-04

After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously...

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Caravan

as Estate Administrator
Released: 1934-12-30

A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine...

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Three Live Ghosts

as Inspector Briggs
Released: 1936-01-10

Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the...

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The Silk Express

as Professor Axel Nyberg
Released: 1933-06-01

As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market...

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What Every Woman Knows

as James Wylie
Released: 1934-10-18

Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy...

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The Mayor of Hell

as Thompson
Released: 1933-06-24

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous...

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Fury of the Jungle

as 'Doc' Parrish
Released: 1933-10-23

Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the...

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The Unguarded Hour

as Samuel Metford
Released: 1936-04-10

A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.

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Roar of the Dragon

as Johnson
Released: 1932-07-08

A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky...

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The Light That Failed

as The Nilghai
Released: 1939-12-24

A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.

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Love Is News

as Cyrus Jeffrey
Released: 1937-02-26

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she...

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The Voice of Bugle Ann

as Jacob Terry
Released: 1936-02-15

A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan)...

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Massacre

as Elihu P. Quissenberry
Released: 1934-01-20

Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the...

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The Narrow Corner

as Doctor Saunders
Released: 1933-07-08

An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.

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Kind Lady

as Mr. Edwards
Released: 1935-12-06

Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as...

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Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1975-04-19

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a...

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The Strange Case of Clara Deane

as Detective Garrison
Released: 1932-05-06

A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife...

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The Bishop Misbehaves

as Red
Released: 1935-09-13

On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing...

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The World Moves On

as Mr. Manning
Released: 1934-06-27

Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear...

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I Am a Thief

as Col. Jackson
Released: 1934-11-24

A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.

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Tess of the Storm Country

as Captain Howland
Released: 1932-11-20

When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to...

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Devotion

as Sergeant Herbert Coggins
Released: 1931-09-25

A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.

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The Searching Wind

as Moses
Released: 1946-08-09

With a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946...

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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

as Dennis Ringrose
Released: 1936-10-06

Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon,...

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A Notorious Gentleman

as uncredited
Released: 1935-01-21

A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.

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The Emperor Jones

as Smithers
Released: 1933-09-29

Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through...

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Alexander Hamilton

as Senator Timothy Roberts
Released: 1931-09-12

The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.

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The First Year

as Dr. Anderson
Released: 1932-07-30

Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being...

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