Dudley Digges (actor)

This article is about the twentieth-century film and stage actor. For the seventeenth-century diplomat and judge, see Dudley Digges. For the Royalist political writer, see Dudley Digges (writer).

Dudley Digges
Digges as Boss Mangan in the 1920 Broadway production Heartbreak House, which he also directed[1]
Born
John Dudley Digges

9 June 1879
Ranelagh, Dublin
Ireland
Died24 October 1947(1947-10-24) (aged 68)
New York, N.Y.
United States
Occupation(s)Actor, director, producer
Spouse(s)Maire Quinn
(m. 1907-1947; her death)[2]

Dudley Digges (born John Dudley Digges, 9 June 1879 – 24 October 1947) was an Irish stage actor, director, and producer as well as a film actor.[2][3] Although he gained his initial theatre training and acting experience in Ireland, the vast majority of Digges' career was spent in the United States, where over the span of 43 years he worked in hundreds of stage productions and performed in over 50 films.[4]

  1. ^ "Heartbreak House". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  2. ^ a b "New York New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940", New York Municipal Archives; John Dudley Digges to "Mary Teresa Quinn", August 27, 1907, Manhattan; database copy, archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah. Subscription access.
  3. ^ Doyle, Carmel (2009). "Digges, (John) Dudley"; in McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  4. ^ "Dudley Digges, 68, Noted Actor Dead", The New York Times, October 25, 1947, p. L19. ProQuest Historical Newspapers (Ann Arbor, Michigan); subscription access through The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.