Guy Kibbee (March 6, 1882 – May 24, 1956) was an American stage and film actor.
Biography
Born in El Paso, Texas, Kibbee began his entertainment career on Mississippi riverboats and eventually became a successful Broadway actor. In the 1930s, Kibbee moved to California and became part of what became known as "Warner Bros.' stock company", contracted actors who cycled through different productions in supporting roles. Kibbee's specialty was daft and jovial characters and he is best remembered for the films 42nd Street (1933), The Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Captain Blood (1935), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).
Kibbee died from complications arising out of Parkinson's disease in New York in 1956.
Partial filmography
City Streets (1931)
Side Show (1931)
Blonde Crazy (1931)
The Mouthpiece (1932)
The Dark Horse (1932)
Winner Take All (1932)
Rain (1932)
Union Depot (1932)
42nd Street (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
Lady for a Day (1933)
Footlight Parade (1933)
The World Changes (1933)
Convention City (1933)
Wonder Bar (1934)
Dames (1934)
Captain Blood (1935)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
Captain January (1936)
Three Men on a Horse (1936)
The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937)
Of Human Hearts (1938)
Three Comrades (1938)
Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
It's a Wonderful World (1939)
Babes in Arms (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Our Town (1940)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Girl Crazy (1943)
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
Fort Apache (1948)
3 Godfathers (1948)
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
Guy Kibbee
Guy Kibbee at the Internet Movie Database
This article about a United States film actor born in the 1880s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Persondata
NAME
Kibbee, Guy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
Kibbee, Guy Bridges
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Actor
DATE OF BIRTH
1882-3-6
PLACE OF BIRTH
El Paso, Texas, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
1956-5-24 (parkinson's disease)
PLACE OF DEATH
East Islip, Long Island, New York, U.S.
NewPP limit report
Preprocessor node count: 499/1000000
Post-expand include size: 3647/2048000 bytes
Template argument size: 1433/2048000 bytes
Expensive parser function count: 0/500
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Kibbee"
Categories: American film actor, 1880s birth stubs | 1882 births | 1956 deaths | American film actors | American stage actors | People from El Paso, Texas | Deaths from Parkinson's disease | People with Parkinson's disease
Views
Article
Discussion
