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Sidney Kibrick, Child Actor in the Our Gang Comedy Shorts, Dies at 97

He played the bad kid known as rCLWoimrCY rCo ButchrCOs sidekick rCo in the Hal
Roach films before calling it a career when he was 15.


By Mike Barnes January 6, 2026 10:00am

Sidney Kibrick, who portrayed the bad boy known as rCLWoimrCY in Our Gang comedy film shorts in the 1930s, has died. He was 97.

Kibrick died Saturday at a hospital in Northridge, his daughter, Jane
Lipsic, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Kibrick appeared in about two dozen Our Gang/Little Rascals films, made at
Hal Roach Studios and/or MGM, from 1935-39. As Woim rCo thatrCOs Brooklynese for rCLwormrCY rCo he was the henchkid for the neighborhood bully Butch (Tommy Bond).

It was a grind making those shorts, he told Nick Thomas in a 2023
interview. rCLWerCOd have two hours of schooling in the morning and then work anywhere from six to 16 hours until we finished,rCY he said. rCLThere was a lot of work, no question about it, but our director Gordon Douglas was a terrific guy, and he was really able to get a lot out of each kid.rCY

His older brother, Leonard Kibrick, had played the main troublemaker in
the series, giving Spanky (George McFarland), Alfalfa (Carl Switzer), Buckwheat (Billie Thomas) and Darla (Darla Hood) a hard time, before Bond replaced him in 1936.

The youngest of three kids, Sidney Henry Kibrick was born in Minneapolis
on July 2, 1928. He came to Los Angeles as an infant with his family.

rCLMy mother took us to GraumanrCOs Chinese Theatre and after the movie, a man came over to us, pointed at me and said he could rCyuse that little kid in
the movies,rCOrCY Kibrick recalled. His parents really wanted him and his brother to get into acting.

The boys got started in 1933, appearing in Raoul WalshrCOs The Bowery
(1933), starring Wallace Beery, George Raft and Jackie Cooper. Leonard,
who was about four years older than Sidney, appeared in his first Our Gang film in 1934 (he died in 1993 at age 68).

Kibrick said he was earning $750 a week for the shorts, rCLa lot in those days, especially during the Depression,rCY he told Thomas. He also was
showing up in such features as Shirley TemplerCOs Just Around the Corner (1938), Tyrone PowerrCOs Jesse James (1939) and Glenn FordrCOs Flight Lieutenant (1942).

rCLBut by the time I was 15, IrCOd had enough,rCY he said. rCLMy parents wanted me
to continue, but finally my mother went along with my wishes.rCY His last onscreen credit was the Bowery Boys movie Keep rCyEm Slugging (1943).

Kibrick went on to attend college at USC and become a impeccably dressed
real estate developer in Southern California while putting together an Our Gang reunion in 1981 and remaining friends with McFarland, who died in
1993.

rCLSpanky worked for Westinghouse in Dallas,rCY he told Fox News in 2022. rCLHe
would come over with his family here in Beverly Hills, and I would do the
same with mine.rCY

Also that year, Kibrick and family members attended the opening of an
exhibit at the Hollywood Museum honoring the 100th anniversary of the Our
Gang series. As perhaps the last surviving actor of those films, he was
still getting fan mail at the time of his death.

In addition to his daughter, survivors include his son-in-law, Marty; his granddaughter, Dana, and his grandson; Adam; his great-granddaughters,
Emma, Mia and Lily, and his great-grandson, Landon; and his companion,
Eunice David. His wife of 65 years, Greta, died in 2013 at age 83.

rCLI think people, even today, could identify with being a child and being mischievous when life was simple,rCY he said of the lasting impact of the
Our Gang comedies. rCLIt was fun, and it made people laugh. rCa I was living the studio life. Those are memories I will never forget. It was a
wonderful experience.rCY
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