The brother of actor/director Basil Dignam, Mark Dignam studied journalism before making his 1930 stage bow in Lonely House. After a few seasons with the Ben Greet repertory troupe, he made his London debut in 1932 and thereafter worked with such organizations as the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. In films from 1949, Dignam specialized in roles calling for gray-maned authority, notably the Laird in The Maggie (1954), the prosecuting attorney in Carrington, V.C. (1955), and Merlin in Cornel Wilde's Sword of Lancelot (1962). Mark Dignam reluctantly earned a bit of notoriety in 1969 when he appeared as Polonius in Nicol Williamson's controversial film version of Hamlet.
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The Life of Johann Sebastian Bach
Participant |
1998 | |||
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The Chain
Actor |
1985 | |||
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Memoirs of a Survivor
Actor |
1981 | |||
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The XYY Man [TV Series]
Actor |
1976 | |||
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Dead Cert
Actor |
1974 | |||
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Macbeth
Actor |
1971 | |||
| 1970 | ||||
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Hamlet
Actor |
1969 | |||
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Isadora
Actor |
1968 | |||
| 1968 | ||||
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The Taming of the Shrew
Actor |
1967 | |||
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Escape by Night
Actor |
1965 | |||
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Game for Three Losers
Actor |
1965 | |||
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A Jolly Bad Fellow
Actor |
1964 | |||
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Siege of the Saxons
Actor |
1963 | |||
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Sword of Lancelot
Actor |
1963 | |||
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The Eyes of Annie Jones
Actor |
1963 | |||
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Tom Jones
Actor |
1963 | |||
| 1962 | ||||
| 1961 | ||||
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Conscience Bay
Actor |
1960 | |||
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Sink the Bismarck!
Actor |
1960 | |||
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Escapade
Actor |
1955 | |||
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The Prisoner
Actor |
1955 | |||
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Beau Brummell
Actor |
1954 | |||
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Carrington V.C.
Actor |
1954 | |||
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Lease of Life
Actor |
1954 | |||
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The Maggie
Actor |
1954 | |||
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The Passing Stranger
Actor |
1954 | |||
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Three Cornered Fate
Actor |
1954 | |||
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Doctor in the House
Actor |
1953 | |||
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Murder in the Cathedral
Actor |
1952 | |||
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Train of Events
Actor |
1949 |
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