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Guy Kibbee

Acting Born Mar 5, 1882 El Paso, Texas, USA 24 credits

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Guy Bridges Kibbee (March 6, 1882 – May 24, 1956) was an American stage and film actor.

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), though he gives a deftly subtle performance as the expat inn owner in Joan Crawford's Rain (1932).

Kibbee died from complications arising from Parkinson's disease in Long Island, New York in 1956.

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Known for

Film

Fort Apache

as Capt. Dr. Wilkens
Film

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

as Governor Hopper

Full filmography

  • Fort Apache (1948) as Capt. Dr. Wilkens
  • Captain Blood (1935) as Hagthorpe
  • 3 Godfathers (1948) as Judge
  • Scattergood Baines (1941) as Scattergood Baines
  • The Silk Express (1933) as Railway Detective McDuff
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) as Governor Hopper
  • Footlight Parade (1933) as Silas 'Si' Gould
  • Our Town (1940) as Mr. Webb
  • 42nd Street (1933) as Abner Dillon
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) as Silas Hobbs
  • Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) as Peabody
  • Rain (1932) as Joe Horn
  • Lady for a Day (1933) as Judge Henry G. Blake
  • Wonder Bar (1934) as Henry Simpson
  • Girl Crazy (1943) as Dean Phineas Armour
  • Babes in Arms (1939) as Judge Black
  • It's a Wonderful World (1939) as Fred 'Cap' Streeter
  • Babbitt (1934) as George F. Babbitt
  • Of Human Hearts (1938) as George Ames
  • Two Seconds (1932) as Bookie
  • Harold Teen (1934) as Joe 'Pa' Lovewell
  • Don't Bet on Blondes (1935) as Col. Jefferson Davis Youngblood
  • Union Depot (1932) as Scrap Iron Scratch
  • It Started with Eve (1941) as Bishop Maxwell