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.
Chief Detective
The Invisible Man
Bacchus
Mutiny on the Bounty
Casper Gutman
The Maltese Falcon
Smithers
Emperor Jones
Dawson
China Seas
Thompson
The Mayor of Hell
Sergeant Herbert Coggins
Devotion
Thompson, the Examiner
Outward Bound
Jean Vidal
Condemned!
Mr. Wu
The General Died at Dawn
Nog Hong Fah
The Hatchet Man
Horace Merrick
Before Dawn
Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain
The King's Vacation
Detective Garrison
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Col. Jackson
I Am a Thief
MacKenzie
Raffles
Jacob Terry
The Voice of Bugle Ann
Mr. Edwards
Kind Lady
Abner Sneed
The Ruling Voice
The Nilghai
The Light That Failed
Elihu P. Quissenberry
Massacre
Samuel Metford
The Unguarded Hour
James Wylie
What Every Woman Knows
Moses Taney
The Searching Wind
Doctor Saunders
The Narrow Corner
Senator Timothy Roberts
Alexander Hamilton
Chefarzt
The Fight for Life
Captain Howland
Tess of the Storm Country
Professor Axel Nyberg
The Silk Express
Johnson
Roar of the Dragon
A Notorious Gentleman
'Doc' Parrish
Fury of the Jungle
Pratt
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Dennis Ringrose
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Estate Administrator
Caravan
Red
The Bishop Misbehaves
Cyrus Jeffrey
Love Is News
Inspector Briggs
Three Live Ghosts
Dr. Anderson
The First Year
Mr. Manning
The World Moves On
Self (archive footage)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
41
Gender
Male
Birthday
1879-06-08
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]
Also Known As
Dudley Diggs