Highest rated movie: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Lowest rated movie: The Hatchet Man (1932)
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Movies starring Dudley Digges have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.
Mutiny on the Bounty - released in 1935 - is Dudley Digges's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 170 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Dudley Digges is The Hatchet Man - released in 1932 - with a score of 41% based on 2 reviews.
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.
Dudley Digges has acted in films with Robert Barrat, Wilfred Lucas, E. E. Clive and Charles Irwin.
Dudley Digges has worked with these film directors: Wesley Ruggles, Tay Garnett, John Ford and Sam Wood.
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