Dudley Digges
Birthday
1879/06/08
Day of death
1947/10/24 (68 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]
Also know as
Dudley Diggs, John Dudley Digges
Biography
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,...Read more
Acting
(1933) The Invisible Man
as Chief Detective
(1935) Mutiny on the Bounty
as Bacchus
(1931) The Maltese Falcon
as Casper Gutman
(1933) Emperor Jones
as Smithers
(1935) China Seas
as Dawson
(1933) The Mayor of Hell
as Thompson
(1931) Devotion
as Sergeant Herbert Coggins
(1930) Outward Bound
as Thompson, the Examiner
(1929) Condemned!
as Jean Vidal
(1936) The General Died at Dawn
as Mr. Wu
(1932) The Hatchet Man
as Nog Hong Fah
(1933) Before Dawn
as Horace Merrick
(1933) The King's Vacation
as Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain
(1932) The Strange Case of Clara Deane
as Detective Garrison
(1934) I Am a Thief
as Col. Jackson
(1939) Raffles
as MacKenzie
(1936) The Voice of Bugle Ann
as Jacob Terry
(1935) Kind Lady
as Mr. Edwards
(1931) The Ruling Voice
as Abner Sneed
(1939) The Light That Failed
as The Nilghai
(1934) Massacre
as Elihu P. Quissenberry
(1936) The Unguarded Hour
as Samuel Metford
(1934) What Every Woman Knows
as James Wylie
(1946) The Searching Wind
as Moses Taney
(1931) Alexander Hamilton
as Senator Timothy Roberts
(1933) The Narrow Corner
as Doctor Saunders
(1940) The Fight for Life
as Chefarzt
(1932) Tess of the Storm Country
as Captain Howland
(1933) The Silk Express
as Professor Axel Nyberg
(1932) Roar of the Dragon
as Johnson
(1935) A Notorious Gentleman
as ---
(1933) Fury of the Jungle
as 'Doc' Parrish
(1942) Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Pratt
(1936) Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
as Dennis Ringrose
(1934) Caravan
as Estate Administrator
(1935) The Bishop Misbehaves
as Red
(1937) Love Is News
as Cyrus Jeffrey
(1936) Three Live Ghosts
as Inspector Briggs
(1932) The First Year
as Dr. Anderson
(1934) The World Moves On
as Mr. Manning
(1975) Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)