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name: "Dudley Digges"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dudley-digges"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "8 June 1879"
died: "24 October 1947"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T22:47:55.094441+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Dudley Digges

Actor. Born 8 June 1879 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. Died 24 October 1947.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 June 1879, Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]
- **Died:** 24 October 1947
- **Also known as:** Dudley Diggs, John Dudley Digges
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Digges_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2743601, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0226502/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/100243

## Biography

Dudley Digges (also credited as Dudley Diggs or John Dudley Digges) was an Irish actor, stage director and producer. Born in Dublin in 1879, he moved to the United States in 1904 with a group of Irish players and built a long career on Broadway, where he also worked as a producer and director.

He appeared in more than fifty films between 1929 and 1946. Among his notable screen roles were Casper Gutman in the 1931 version of *The Maltese Falcon*, the Chief Detective in *The Invisible Man* (1933), Dawson in *China Seas* (1935) and Bacchus in *Mutiny on the Bounty* (1935). In 1924 he founded the Maverick Theater in Woodstock, New York.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Mutiny on the Bounty* (1935), Fi1m 83, as Bacchus — [page](https://film.one/film/mutiny-on-the-bounty.md)

## Complete filmography (40)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Searching Wind* (1946), as Moses Taney
- *Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake* (1942), as Pratt
- *The Fight for Life* (1940), as Chefarzt
- *The Light That Failed* (1939), as The Nilghai
- *Raffles* (1939), as MacKenzie
- *Love Is News* (1937), as Cyrus Jeffrey
- *The General Died at Dawn* (1936), as Mr. Wu
- *Valiant Is the Word for Carrie* (1936), as Dennis Ringrose
- *The Unguarded Hour* (1936), as Samuel Metford
- *The Voice of Bugle Ann* (1936), as Jacob Terry
- *Three Live Ghosts* (1936), as Inspector Briggs
- *Kind Lady* (1935), as Mr. Edwards
- *Mutiny on the Bounty* (1935), as Bacchus — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/mutiny-on-the-bounty.md)
- *The Bishop Misbehaves* (1935), as Red
- *China Seas* (1935), as Dawson
- *A Notorious Gentleman* (1935), as Marleyborne
- *Caravan* (1934), as Estate Administrator
- *I Am a Thief* (1934), as Col. Jackson
- *What Every Woman Knows* (1934), as James Wylie
- *The World Moves On* (1934), as Mr. Manning
- *Massacre* (1934), as Elihu P. Quissenberry
- *The Invisible Man* (1933), as Chief Detective
- *Fury of the Jungle* (1933), as 'Doc' Parrish
- *Emperor Jones* (1933), as Smithers
- *Before Dawn* (1933), as Horace Merrick
- *The Narrow Corner* (1933), as Doctor Saunders
- *The Mayor of Hell* (1933), as Thompson
- *The Silk Express* (1933), as Professor Axel Nyberg
- *The King's Vacation* (1933), as Count Rayburn, the Lord Chamberlain
- *Tess of the Storm Country* (1932), as Captain Howland
- *The First Year* (1932), as Dr. Anderson
- *Roar of the Dragon* (1932), as Johnson
- *The Strange Case of Clara Deane* (1932), as Detective Garrison
- *The Hatchet Man* (1932), as Nog Hong Fah
- *Devotion* (1931), as Sergeant Herbert Coggins
- *Alexander Hamilton* (1931), as Senator Timothy Roberts
- *The Ruling Voice* (1931), as Abner Sneed
- *The Maltese Falcon* (1931), as Casper Gutman
- *Outward Bound* (1930), as Thompson, the Examiner
- *Condemned!* (1929), as Jean Vidal

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