Sidney Henry Kibrick (born July 2, 1928) is an American former
child actor
The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting on stage or in movies or television. An adult who began their acting career as a child may also be called a child actor, or a "former child actor". Closely associated t ...
, most notable for appearing in the ''
Our Gang''
short subjects film series, over a ten-year period from 1933 and 1943.
Kibrick was born in
Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 2, 1928.
He attended Mount Vernon Junior High.
Kibrick made a brief non-dialogue appearance as an extra in the feature film ''Dead End'', observed as one of three or so children huddled together during one of the river dock scenes. He made his uncredited film debut in ''Out all Night'' (1933), and after a few more uncredited roles was cast in 1935 in ''Our Gang'', from 1937 to 1939, in that series he portrayed "Woim" (a vernacular pronunciation of "worm"), the sidekick of the neighborhood bully "Butch", played by
Tommy Bond
Thomas Ross Bond (September 16, 1926 – September 24, 2005) was an American actor, director, producer and writer. He was best known for his work as a child actor for two nonconsecutive periods on ''Our Gang'' (''Little Rascals'') comedies (fir ...
.
Kibrick worked as a real estate developer after leaving show business in 1969.
He kept in touch with Our Gang members at reunions, some of which he used to host.
In 1991, he acknowledged that he had avoided the tragic lives that former child actors often ended up having as adults.
In July 2017, he was reported as one of the few surviving cast members of the original ''Our Gang'' series.
Filmography
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1928 births
Living people
20th-century American male actors
American male child actors
Male actors from Minneapolis
Our Gang
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