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Dudley Digges
Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]
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 we…
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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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1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1946
The Searching Wind
Movie Moses Taney
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1942
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Movie Pratt
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1940
The Fight for Life
Movie Chefarzt
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1939
The Light That Failed
Movie The Nilghai
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1939
Raffles
Movie MacKenzie
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1937
Love Is News
Movie Cyrus Jeffrey
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1936
The General Died at Dawn
Movie Mr. Wu
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1936
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Movie Dennis Ringrose
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1936
The Unguarded Hour
Movie Samuel Metford
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1936
The Voice of Bugle Ann
Movie Jacob Terry
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1936
Three Live Ghosts
Movie Inspector Briggs
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1935
Kind Lady
Movie Mr. Edwards
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1935
Mutiny on the Bounty
Movie Bacchus
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1935
The Bishop Misbehaves
Movie Red
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1935
China Seas
Movie Dawson
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1935
A Notorious Gentleman
Movie Marleyborne
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1934
Caravan
Movie Estate Administrator
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1934
I Am a Thief
Movie Col. Jackson
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1934
What Every Woman Knows
Movie James Wylie
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1934
The World Moves On
Movie Mr. Manning
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1934
Massacre
Movie Elihu P. Quissenberry
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1933
The Invisible Man
Movie Chief Detective
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1933
Fury of the Jungle
Movie 'Doc' Parrish
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1933
Emperor Jones
Movie Smithers
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1933
Before Dawn
Movie Horace Merrick
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1933
The Narrow Corner
Movie Doctor Saunders
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1933
The Mayor of Hell
Movie Thompson
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1933
The Silk Express
Movie Professor Axel Nyberg
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1933
The King's Vacation
Movie Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain
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1932
Tess of the Storm Country
Movie Captain Howland
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1932
The First Year
Movie Dr. Anderson
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1932
Roar of the Dragon
Movie Johnson
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1932
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Movie Detective Garrison
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1932
The Hatchet Man
Movie Nog Hong Fah
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1931
Devotion
Movie Sergeant Herbert Coggins
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1931
Alexander Hamilton
Movie Senator Timothy Roberts
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1931
The Ruling Voice
Movie Abner Sneed
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1931
The Maltese Falcon
Movie Casper Gutman
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1930
Outward Bound
Movie Thompson, the Examiner
