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]
Also known As
Dudley Diggs
John 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 C...
1933
as Chief Detective
1935
as Bacchus
1931
as Casper Gutman
1933
as Smithers
1935
as Dawson
1933
as Thompson
1931
as Sergeant Herbert Coggins
1930
as Thompson, the Examiner
1929
as Jean Vidal
1936
as Mr. Wu
1932
as Nog Hong Fah
1933
as Horace Merrick
1933
as Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain
1932
as Detective Garrison
1934
as Col. Jackson
1939
as MacKenzie
1936
as Jacob Terry
1935
as Mr. Edwards
1931
as Abner Sneed
1939
as The Nilghai
1934
as Elihu P. Quissenberry
1936
as Samuel Metford
1934
as James Wylie
1946
as Moses Taney
1931
as Senator Timothy Roberts
1933
as Doctor Saunders
1940
as Chefarzt
1932
as Captain Howland
1933
as Professor Axel Nyberg
1932
as Johnson
1933
as 'Doc' Parrish
1942
1936
as Dennis Ringrose
1934
as Estate Administrator
1935
as Red
1937
as Cyrus Jeffrey
1936
as Inspector Briggs
1932
as Dr. Anderson
1934
as Mr. Manning
1975
as Self (archive footage)
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