- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- June 8, 1879
- Place of Birth
- Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]
- Died
- October 24, 1947
Dudley Digges
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. Di…
Filmography
movieBlack Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Searching Wind
1946 · Moses Taney
movieSon of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942 · Pratt
The Fight for Life
1940 · Chefarzt
movieThe Light That Failed
1939 · The Nilghai
movieRaffles
1939 · MacKenzie
movieLove Is News
1937 · Cyrus Jeffrey
movieThe General Died at Dawn
1936 · Mr. Wu
movieValiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936 · Dennis Ringrose
movieThe Unguarded Hour
1936 · Samuel Metford
movieThe Voice of Bugle Ann
1936 · Jacob Terry
movieThree Live Ghosts
1936 · Inspector Briggs
movieKind Lady
1935 · Mr. Edwards
movieMutiny on the Bounty
1935 · Bacchus
movieThe Bishop Misbehaves
1935 · Red
movieChina Seas
1935 · Dawson
movieA Notorious Gentleman
1935 · Marleyborne
movieCaravan
1934 · Estate Administrator
movieI Am a Thief
1934 · Col. Jackson
movieWhat Every Woman Knows
1934 · James Wylie
movieThe World Moves On
1934 · Mr. Manning
movieMassacre
1934 · Elihu P. Quissenberry
movieThe Invisible Man
1933 · Chief Detective
movieFury of the Jungle
1933 · 'Doc' Parrish
movieEmperor Jones
1933 · Smithers
movieBefore Dawn
1933 · Horace Merrick
movieThe Narrow Corner
1933 · Doctor Saunders
movieThe Mayor of Hell
1933 · Thompson
movieThe Silk Express
1933 · Professor Axel Nyberg
movieThe King's Vacation
1933 · Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain
movieTess of the Storm Country
1932 · Captain Howland
movieThe First Year
1932 · Dr. Anderson
movieRoar of the Dragon
1932 · Johnson
movieThe Strange Case of Clara Deane
1932 · Detective Garrison
movieThe Hatchet Man
1932 · Nog Hong Fah
movieDevotion
1931 · Sergeant Herbert Coggins
movieAlexander Hamilton
1931 · Senator Timothy Roberts
movieThe Ruling Voice
1931 · Abner Sneed
movieThe Maltese Falcon
1931 · Casper Gutman
movieOutward Bound
1930 · Thompson, the Examiner
movieCondemned!
1929 · Jean Vidal