Dudley Digges

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 Molnárs 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 Vanes 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia