Dudley Digges was an Irish character actor on stage and in motion pictures. On stage, one of his famous roles was as Ficsur in the original 1921 Broadway production of Ferenc Molnar'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.

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  • Dudley Digges was an Irish character actor on stage and in motion pictures. On stage, one of his famous roles was as Ficsur in the original 1921 Broadway production of Ferenc Molnar'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. Digges also 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, NY, 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 est un acteur irlandais né le 9 juin 1879 à Dublin et décédé le 24 octobre 1947 à New York. Il est à l'affiche d'une quarantaine de films entre 1929 et 1946.
  • Dudley Digges, född 9 juni 1879 i Dublin, Irland, död 24 oktober 1947 i New York, USA, var en irländsk skådespelare, som medverkade i 40 filmer mellan 1929-1946, efter att först ha spelat teater vid Dublin's Abbey Theatre, och senare Broadway.
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  • Dudley Digges was an Irish character actor on stage and in motion pictures. On stage, one of his famous roles was as Ficsur in the original 1921 Broadway production of Ferenc Molnar'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.
  • Dudley Digges est un acteur irlandais né le 9 juin 1879 à Dublin et décédé le 24 octobre 1947 à New York. Il est à l'affiche d'une quarantaine de films entre 1929 et 1946.
  • Dudley Digges, född 9 juni 1879 i Dublin, Irland, död 24 oktober 1947 i New York, USA, var en irländsk skådespelare, som medverkade i 40 filmer mellan 1929-1946, efter att först ha spelat teater vid Dublin's Abbey Theatre, och senare Broadway.
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  • Dudley Digges (actor)
  • Dudley Digges (acteur)
  • Dudley Digges
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