 Digges went to America with a group of fellow-actors in 1904, and became successful as both actor and producer.He was stage manager for a time to both Charles Frohman and George Arliss, and by the 1920s he had become a notable performer on Broadway.One of Digges' best-known roles there was as Ficsur in the original 1921 production of Ferenc Molnár's "Liliom" (later adapted into the musical "Carousel" by Rodgers and Hammerstein).