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Dec 19, 2019 · Meet Keith Thibodeaux, the actor who played Little Ricky on the Classic TV sitcom 'I Love Lucy.' Everything to know about the sole remaining cast member.
- Ed Gross
- Auditioning to Play Little Ricky
- ‘I Think We’Ve Found Little Ricky’
- His Final Visit with Lucille Ball
- Ball Was Alone on Her Birthday
Keith Thibodeaux, as a musically precocious child, was earning $500 a week by age 3 while touring with the Horace Heidt Orchestra. His father took him to audition for the role of Little Ricky when he was about 5 years old. “My dad brought me down to the studios, and I was introduced to Lucy. She said, ‘He’s cute, but what does he do?’ You have to d...
The show had a set of drums right on the set, so Thibodeaux, whose stage name was Richard Keith, showed everyone he knew how to keep a beat. According to Thibodeaux in his 2005 conversation with the Archive of American Television, 500 other boys had been vying for the role of the son of America’s most famous couple at the time. “Everyone wanted to ...
In the early 1980s, Thibodeaux recalled seeing Lucille Ball “on one of her birthdays.” It would be the last time he would see the actor before her 1989 death. “I was playing with a band and I was in Los Angeles at the time,” he said. “It was her birthday, Lucy’s birthday, and my sister who lives in California, wanted to see Lucy.” His sister decide...
He began backing his car off her property when “Here comes Lucy, just running out of the house, waving her hands and she’s just like, ‘Come on back!’ All these fans are going crazy by this time ’cause here comes Lucy out of the house,” Thibodeaux said. “This is typical Lucy: She’s standing at the end of her hall, it’s about 50 feet down. She’s not ...
Jan 31, 2023 · Thibodeaux, who was using the stage name Richard Keith, played the oldest version of Little Ricky during the sixth and seventh seasons of the show and is the actor who is best known for the role. Now, the former child star is 72 years old and has moved on to far different careers.
- Lia Beck
- Freelance Writer
Aug 16, 1994 · “This is my son!” And so Keith Thibodeaux was hired to play Little Ricky on the “I Love Lucy” show, a landmark sitcom and one of the most popular TV shows ever broadcast. When he got...
Jun 9, 2022 · Keith Thibodeaux will never forget the day he was cast as Little Ricky on the iconic show “I Love Lucy.” "[Lucille Ball] comes up and says, 'Well, he's cute. But what does he do?'
Oct 15, 2015 · October 15, 2015, 12:49 am. -- It's been 60 years since Keith Thibodeux won America's hearts as "Little Ricky" on " I Love Lucy ." Thibodeux, now 64 and one of the last surviving cast members of the show, said he is grateful to have been a part of the cult classic.
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Actor: I Love Lucy. Keith Thibodeaux, billed as "Richard Keith" in I Love Lucy (1951) episodes, started playing drums at the age of two in Lafayette, Louisiana.
