Dudley Digges

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1879-06-08 (68 years old)

Deathday

1947-10-24

Place of Birth

Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]

Dudley Digges

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 C...

Acting

1933

The Invisible Man

as Chief Detective

1935

1931

The Maltese Falcon

as Casper Gutman

1933

Emperor Jones

as Smithers

1935

China Seas

as Dawson

1933

1931

Devotion

as Sergeant Herbert Coggins

1930

Outward Bound

as Thompson, the Examiner

1929

Condemned!

as Jean Vidal

1932

The Hatchet Man

as Nog Hong Fah

1933

Before Dawn

as Horace Merrick

1933

The King's Vacation

as Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain

1932

The Strange Case of Clara Deane

as Detective Garrison

1934

I Am a Thief

as Col. Jackson

1939

Raffles

as MacKenzie

1936

1935

Kind Lady

as Mr. Edwards

1931

The Ruling Voice

as Abner Sneed

1939

The Light That Failed

as The Nilghai

1934

Massacre

as Elihu P. Quissenberry

1936

The Unguarded Hour

as Samuel Metford

1934

1946

The Searching Wind

as Moses Taney

1931

Alexander Hamilton

as Senator Timothy Roberts

1933

The Narrow Corner

as Doctor Saunders

1940

1932

Tess of the Storm Country

as Captain Howland

1933

The Silk Express

as Professor Axel Nyberg

1932

1933

Fury of the Jungle

as 'Doc' Parrish

1936

1934

Caravan

as Estate Administrator

1937

Love Is News

as Cyrus Jeffrey

1936

Three Live Ghosts

as Inspector Briggs

1932

The First Year

as Dr. Anderson

1934

The World Moves On

as Mr. Manning

1975

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

as Self (archive footage)

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