 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".