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Kibbee was born in El Paso, Texas and began his entertainment career on Mississippiriverboats. He became an actor in traveling stock companies. In 1930, he made his debut on Broadway in the play, Torch Song, which won acclaim in New York and attracted the interest of Hollywood. Shortly afterwards, Kibbee moved to California and after being signed by Paramount Pictures. later, he became part of "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 perhaps best remembered for the films 42nd Street (1933), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Captain Blood (1935), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), though he also played the expat inn owner in Joan Crawford's Rain (1932).
He is also remembered for his performance as Mr. Webb, editor of the Grover's Corners, New Hampshire newspaper, and father of Emily Webb, played by Martha Scott, in the film version of the classic Thornton Wilder play Our Town.
Kibbee died at the Perry Williams Home for Sick and Needy Actors from complications arising from Parkinson's disease in Long Island, New York in 1956. His younger brother was actor Milton Kibbee.
In popular culture
Guy Kibbee eggs is the name for a breakfast dish which consists of a hole cut out of the center of a slice of bread, and an egg cracked into it, all of which is fried in a skillet. The actor prepared this dish in the 1935 Warner Bros. film Mary Jane's Pa, hence the eponym. This dish is also known by other names, such as "egg in a basket".
Guy Kibbee is also mentioned in the iconic "Hot August Night" concert/album performed by Neil Diamond in 1972 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, California. "Thank you people in the audience! Tree people out there, God bless ya, I'm singin for you too! Are you still there tree people? ( laughter ) This is, this is the Greek Theatre,. This is the place that God made for performers when they die, they go to a place called the Greek Theatre. And you're met there by an MC, wearing a long robe and smoking a cigar, looks like Guy Kibbee, and that's what is is. It's performers paradise......"
Filmography
Actor
1950
The Billy Rose Show (TV Series)
- The Night Billy Rose Should'a Stood in Bed (1950)
How to Break 90 #2: Position and Back Swing (Short) as
The Golfer (uncredited)
1933
The Silk Express as
McDuff - Railway Detective
1933
The Life of Jimmy Dolan as
Phlaxer
1933
Gold Diggers of 1933 as
Faneul H. Peabody
1933
Lilly Turner as
Doc Peter McGill
1933
Girl Missing as
Kenneth Van Dusen
1933
42nd Street as
Abner Dillon
1932
Central Park as
Policeman Charlie Cabot
1932
The Conquerors as
Dr. Daniel Blake
1932
Scarlet Dawn as
Murphy
1932
Rain as
Joe Horn
1932
Big City Blues as
Hummell, the House Detective
1932
Crooner as
Mike the Drunk with Megaphone
1932
Winner Take All as
Pop Slavin
1932
The Dark Horse as
Zachary Hicks
1932
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain as
Pop - Policeman
1932
Two Seconds as
Bookie
1932
So Big! as
August Hemple (scenes deleted)
1932
The Crowd Roars as
Pop Greer
1932
The Mouthpiece as
Bartender
1932
Play Girl as
'Finky' Finkelwald
1932
Fireman, Save My Child! as
Pop Devlin
1932
Union Depot as
Scrap Iron Scratch
1932
High Pressure as
Clifford Gray
1931
Taxi as
Pop Riley
1931
Flying High as
Mr. Smith
1931
New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford as
McGonigal
1931
Side Show as
Colonel Gowdy
1931
Blonde Crazy as
A. Rupert Johnson, Jr.
1931
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'the Big Irons' (Short) as
Mr. Kibbee (uncredited)
1931
Laughing Sinners as
Cass Wheeler
1931
City Streets as
Pop Cooley
1931
Man of the World as
Harry Taylor
1931
Stolen Heaven as
Police Commissioner
1929
For Sale (Short) as
Mr. Hart (uncredited)
Soundtrack
1942
This Time for Keeps (performer: "We're Off to See the Wizard" (1939) - uncredited)
1937
The Bad Man of Brimstone (performer: "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers!" (1879) - uncredited)
1936
The Captain's Kid (performer: "Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum" - uncredited)
1936
Captain January (lyrics: "Chi mi freno in tal momento?" (1835) - uncredited) / (performer: "At the Codfish Ball" (1936), "Asleep in the Deep" (1897) (uncredited), "Chi mi freno in tal momento?" (1835) (uncredited))
