Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
6/8/1879
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]
Also Known As
Dudley DiggsJohn Dudley Digges
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, the play that Rodgers and Hammerstein later musicalized as Carousel. Ficsur was the criminal who ta...
Known For
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
as Dennis Ringrose
Emperor Jones
as Smithers
China Seas
as Dawson
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as Pratt
Massacre
as Elihu P. Quissenberry
The Invisible Man
as Chief Detective
Outward Bound
as Thompson, the Examiner
The World Moves On
as Mr. Manning
Before Dawn
as Horace Merrick
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Bacchus
Caravan
as Estate Administrator
Raffles
as MacKenzie
The Hatchet Man
as Nog Hong Fah
Alexander Hamilton
as Senator Timothy Roberts
The Light That Failed
as The Nilghai
The Mayor of Hell
as Thompson
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
The Maltese Falcon
as Casper Gutman
Love Is News
as Cyrus Jeffrey
I Am a Thief
as Col. Jackson
Career Timeline
1936
1935
1934
1933
The Invisible Man
as Chief Detective
Fury of the Jungle
as 'Doc' Parrish
Emperor Jones
as Smithers
Before Dawn
as Horace Merrick
The Narrow Corner
as Doctor Saunders
The Mayor of Hell
as Thompson
The Silk Express
as Professor Axel Nyberg
The King's Vacation
as Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain