Digges, Dudley
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Digges, Dudley (1879–1947), character actor. The Dublin‐born performer had distinguished himself with the Irish National Players before embarking for America in 1904. Among his early appearances were roles in
The Rising of the Moon (1908) opposite Mrs.
Fiske,
The Spitfire (1910), and
The Squaw Man (1911). After playing opposite George
Arliss in
Disraeli (1911), Digges served as Arliss's stage manager for seven years. In 1919 he joined the newly formed
Theatre Guild and quickly established himself as one of its finest character actors, remaining with the Guild for eleven years and giving nearly 3,000 performances under its aegis. The avuncular, gravel‐voiced actor's notable assignments included the cowardly, selfish Henry Clegg in
Jane Clegg (1920); Boss Mangan in
Heartbreak House (1920); the villainous Sparrow in
Liliom (1921); the foredoomed Mr. Zero in
The Adding Machine (1923); the heavenly examiner Rev. Thompson in
Outward Bound (1924); the helpful Critic in
The Guardsman (1924); Feodor in
The Brothers Karamazov (1927); the wise Chu‐Yin in
Marco Millions (1928); industrialist Andrew Undershaft in
Major Barbara (1928); and the atheistic Ramsey Fife in
Dynamo (1929). He also directed a number of Guild productions, including
Candida (1925),
Pygmalion (1927),
Love Is Like That (1927), and
The Doctor's Dilemma (1927). Digges scored as Gramps, who defies death's messenger, in
On Borrowed Time (1938), then appeared as the rich Uncle Stanley in
George Washington Slept Here (1942), and as Mr. Burgess in
Candida (1942). His last appearance was as Harry Hope, owner of the seedy bar, in
The Iceman Cometh (1946). Of this performance Brooks
Atkinson commented, “To anyone who loves acting, Dudley Digges' performance as the tottering and irascible saloon proprietor is worth particular cherishing. Although the old man is half dead, Mr. Digges' command of the actor's art is brilliantly alive; it overflows with comic and philosophic expression.”
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