1879-06-08 ( 145 years old ) in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]
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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.
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Movies
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975-04-19
The Searching Wind
1946-08-09
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942-01-29
The Fight for Life
1940-03-07
The Light That Failed
1939-12-24
Raffles
1939-11-11
Love Is News
1937-02-26
The General Died at Dawn
1936-11-17
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936-10-06
The Unguarded Hour
1936-04-10
The Voice of Bugle Ann
1936-02-15
Three Live Ghosts
1936-01-10
Kind Lady
1935-12-06
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935-11-22
The Bishop Misbehaves
1935-09-13
China Seas
1935-08-09
A Notorious Gentleman
1935-01-21
Caravan
1934-12-30
I Am a Thief
1934-11-24
What Every Woman Knows
1934-10-18
The World Moves On
1934-06-27
Massacre
1934-01-20
The Invisible Man
1933-11-03
Fury of the Jungle
1933-10-23
Emperor Jones
1933-09-29
Before Dawn
1933-08-04
The Narrow Corner
1933-07-08
The Mayor of Hell
1933-06-24
The Silk Express
1933-06-01
The King's Vacation
1933-02-25
Tess of the Storm Country
1932-11-20
The First Year
1932-07-30
Roar of the Dragon
1932-07-08
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
1932-05-06
The Hatchet Man
1932-02-06
Devotion
1931-09-25
Alexander Hamilton
1931-09-12
The Ruling Voice
1931-09-10
The Maltese Falcon
1931-05-23
Outward Bound
1930-09-17
Condemned!
1929-11-03
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