Guy Kibbee
Guy Bridges Kibbee ( born May 6, 1882 in El Paso, Texas; † 24 May 1956 Long Iceland, New York) was an American film and theater actor. The character actor played mainly in comedic roles at Warner Brothers.
Life
Guy Kibbee was born in El Paso, Texas, on the border with Mexico. He began his Showarriere with 13 years on the steamers of the Mississippi River, where he appeared as an entertainer. Later he played with Theatertruppem in America and also appeared on Broadway active. His film career began at any rate until the year 1931, when he was almost 50 years old. Soon he was a popular supporting actor, the most jovial personified figures. This Kibbee was among the large group of character actors of the studio Warner Brothers. He joined, among others, in the hugely successful musical film on 42nd Street, which saved Warner Brothers from bankruptcy. He turned in the following years further Musical strips about Gold Diggers of 1933, where he portrayed a lawyer with a secret weakness for Reveudamen.
Guy Kibbee also played some key roles, such as in Frank Capra comedy Lady for a Day. As in many other films Kibbee embodied in this film a judge who has to pretend marriage with an old apple seller ( May Robson ). Also available in other, mostly smaller comedies Kibbee could occur as the main character. In 1935, he played a major supporting role in the pirate movie Captain Blood, the breakthrough of Errol Flynn. End of the 1930s, he joined again directed by Capra in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington on the side of James Stewart. He played a bumbling governor who wants to cover up sloppy work. With Stewart, he was seen in the same year in the comedy indescribable mess. In the 1940s film appearances were Kibbees less, yet he took over the lead role of the six -part film series Scattergood Bains. His last more significant roles he played in 1948 in the John Ford Western To the last man and footprints in the sand, each with John Wayne in the lead role.
After about 115 films in twenty years he ended his acting career in 1950. On 24 May 1954, he died after a long illness in a sanatorium in Long Iceland at the age of 74 years from the effects of Parkinson 's disease. Treatment costs were significantly let melt together before his considerable fortune and a few months before his death shall Kibbee have told his friends that he was now arrived "at the bottom ". He was married twice, from 1918 to 1923 with Helen Shea ( from this marriage came four children) and from 1925 until his death with Esther Reed ( from this marriage came three children). His younger brother, Milton Kibbee (1896-1970) was also an actor and played small supporting roles in nearly 400 films.
" Guy Kibbee Egg "
A breakfast dish is named after Kibbee. Here a split egg in a hole in a slice of bread must be plugged. This is then called Guy Kibbee Egg, which stems from the fact that he has in a 1935 role in the film Mary Jane's Pa preferred this strange court.