the original pre-Code adaptation of The Maltese Falcon (1931). Digges was cast in that feature as Casper Gutman, the character later portrayed by Sydney Greenstreet in the 1941 version. In The Invisible Man (1933) he played the Chief Detective who plots to capture the title character, opposite the unseen Claude Rains. He played the role of the Heavenly Examiner in both the original Broadway production and the 1930 screen version of Sutton Vane's Outward Bound. He also worked as a director on Broadway. Personal life and death Digges married only once, to Irish actress Maire Quinn. The couple wed on August 27, 1907 in New York City and remained together until Maire's death in August 1947. In New York on October 24—just two months after his wife's death—Digges died of a stroke in his Manhattan apartment at 1 West 64th Street. He was survived by three siblings, all living in Ireland: a sister, Mrs. Mai Gannen, and two brothers, James and Ernst. Following a requiem mass at Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church on October 28, he was buried next to Quinn at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York. Partial filmography Condemned (1929) - Jean Vidal Outward Bound (1930) - Thompson the Examiner The Maltese Falcon (1931) - Casper Gutman Alexander Hamilton (1931) - Senator Timothy Roberts Devotion (1931) - Sergeant Coggins The Ruling Voice (1931) - Abner Sneed The Hatchet Man (1932) - Nog Hong Fah The Strange Case of Clara Deane (1932) - Detective Garrison Roar of the Dragon (1932) - Johnson The First Year (1932) - Dr. Anderson Tess of the Storm Country (1932) - Capt. Howland The King's Vacation (1933) - Count Raven Lord Chamberlain The Silk Express (1933) - Professor Axel Nyberg The Mayor of Hell (1933) - Thompson The Narrow Corner (1933) - Doctor Saunders Before Dawn (1933) - Horace Merrick The Emperor Jones (1933) - Smithers Fury of the Jungle (1933) - 'Doc' Parrish The Invisible Man (1933) - Chief Detective Massacre (1934) - Elihu P. Quissenberry Caravan (1934) - Estate Administrator The World Moves On (1934) - Mr. Manning What Every Woman Knows (1934) - James Wylie I Am a Thief (1934) - Col. Jackson A Notorious Gentleman (1935) - Marleybone China Seas (1935) - Dawson The Bishop Misbehaves (1935) - 'Red' Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - Bacchus Kind Lady (1935) - Mr. Edwards Three Live Ghosts (1936) - Inspector