Who is Dudley Digges?

Dudley Digges was an actor, known for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), The Emperor Jones (1933) and The Invisible Man (1933).

Overview

Nicknames
Dudley Diggs

Trivia

  • Though his on-screen persona never seemed to vary much from that of, say, Ebenezer Scrooge, he was a very well-respected stage actor and director, with a particular fondness for the works of Henrik Ibsen. Digges enjoyed an enormously successful career as a Broadway actor and director (active there from 1906-1947) in addition to his work as a character actor in Hollywood.
  • Opposite the Sam Spade of Ricardo Cortez in The Maltese Falcon (1931), Warner Bros.' 1931 adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel, Digges portrayed "Kasper Guttman" - the role wonderfully reprised in Warners' 1941 version (The Maltese Falcon (1941)) by Sydney Greenstreet.
  • Acted on stage from 1902 and moved to the U.S. two years later. Was briefly stage manager for Charles Frohman and George Arliss, before embarking on a prolific Broadway career (1906-1947) which lasted until his death.
  • Character player of various types in US films from 1929 through the mid-40's.