​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.

Filmography

• 1946The Searching Wind — Moses Taney
• 1942Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake — Pratt
• 1940The Fight for Life — Chefarzt
• 1939Raffles — MacKenzie
• 1939The Light That Failed — The Nilghai
• 1937Love Is News — Cyrus Jeffrey
• 1936The General Died at Dawn — Mr. Wu
• 1936The Unguarded Hour — Samuel Metford
• 1936The Voice of Bugle Ann — Jacob Terry
• 1936Three Live Ghosts — Inspector Briggs
• 1936Valiant Is the Word for Carrie — Dennis Ringrose
• 1935A Notorious Gentleman — Marleyborne
• 1935China Seas — Dawson
• 1935Kind Lady — Mr. Edwards
• 1935Mutiny on the Bounty — Bacchus
• 1935The Bishop Misbehaves — Red
• 1934Caravan — Estate Administrator
• 1934I Am a Thief — Col. Jackson
• 1934Massacre — Elihu P. Quissenberry
• 1934The World Moves On — Mr. Manning
• 1934What Every Woman Knows — James Wylie
• 1933Before Dawn — Horace Merrick
• 1933Emperor Jones — Smithers
• 1933Fury of the Jungle — 'Doc' Parrish
• 1933The Invisible Man — Chief Detective
• 1933The King's Vacation — Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain
• 1933The Mayor of Hell — Thompson
• 1933The Narrow Corner — Doctor Saunders
• 1933The Silk Express — Professor Axel Nyberg
• 1932Roar of the Dragon — Johnson
• 1932Tess of the Storm Country — Captain Howland
• 1932The First Year — Dr. Anderson
• 1932The Hatchet Man — Nog Hong Fah
• 1932The Strange Case of Clara Deane — Detective Garrison
• 1931Alexander Hamilton — Senator Timothy Roberts
• 1931Devotion — Sergeant Herbert Coggins
• 1931The Maltese Falcon — Casper Gutman
• 1931The Ruling Voice — Abner Sneed
• 1930Outward Bound — Thompson, the Examiner
• 1929Condemned! — Jean Vidal

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1975Black Shadows on a Silver Screen — Self (archive footage)