Sidney Kibrick

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Sidney "Woim" Kibrick (born July 2, 1928 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) is an American former actor .

life and career

Sidney Kibrick made his film debut in 1933 on the side of Shirley Temple in the short film The Kid's Last Fight . Two years later he took on a role for the first time in the Little Strolchen (Our Gang) . Over the next five years he starred in two dozen films in the popular children's series. While he mostly stayed in the background and without a role name during his first Our Gang appearances, from 1937 he played the role of "Woim", who acts as the sidekick of the thug Butch ( Tommy Bond ). Butch and Woim have been used as constant adversaries to spanky and alfalfa in numerous films . Parallel to his appearances with the little rascals, the red-haired, freckled child actor also played smaller roles in feature films such as Order Is Half Life (1936), Nothing Is Sacred To Them (1937), Jesse James, Man Without a Law (1939) and Spring Parade ( 1940). In 1943, at the age of 15, Kibrick retired from the acting business after having made over 40 films.

His older brother was Leonard Kibrick (1924-1993), who also appeared as a child actor in almost 50 films. Sidney Kibrick worked in adulthood as a project developer and investor in real estate and designed, among other things, a large park near Palm Springs in California. The multimillionaire was involved in two television documentaries about the little rascals in 1999 and 2002 as a contemporary witness.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leonard Kibrick in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  2. ↑ Article about the park at DesertShadows
  3. ↑ Article on Sidney Kibrick
personal data
SURNAME Kibrick, Sidney
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kibrick, Woim (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis , Minnesota