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Richard Keith(I)

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Richard Keith
Keith Thibodeaux, billed as "Richard Keith" in I Love Lucy (1951) episodes, started playing drums at the age of two in Lafayette, Louisiana. He began touring the United States at the tender age of three and ended up in Hollywood, California auditioning for Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball's popular comedy "I Love Lucy". Along with "I Love Lucy", Keith had various acting stints on television, including The Andy Griffith Show (1960), Route 66 (1960), Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958), and Hazel (1961).

While attending the University of Louisiana, Keith joined a mainstream rock band, "David and the Giants" as a drummer, singer, and songwriter. He left the band several years later but after Keith became a Christian, the band regrouped under the same name and went on to become one of the nation's top contemporary Christian bands. Keith and the band toured the world, recording more than a dozen albums before he left in 1989 to pursue other interests.

In January of 1991, he joined his wife Kathy, a professional ballet dancer and silver medalist in the 1982 International Ballet Competition, in their Christian ballet company and ballet school, Ballet Magnificat! In 1993, he became executive director of the national touring company. In addition to his responsibilities at Ballet Magnificat!, Keith still plays the drums and records.

Keith and Kathy Thibodeaux have one daughter, Tara.
BornDecember 1, 1950
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Ron Howard and Richard Keith in The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Lucille Ball and Richard Keith in I Love Lucy (1951)
Ron Howard, David Alan Bailey, Andy Griffith, Richard Keith, Don Knotts, and Dennis Rush in The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, and Richard Keith in I Love Lucy (1951)
Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, William Frawley, Mary Ellen Kay, Richard Keith, and Gene Reynolds in I Love Lucy (1951)
Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, and Richard Keith in I Love Lucy (1951)
Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, William Frawley, Richard Keith, and Vivian Vance in I Love Lucy (1951)
Richard Keith
Richard Keith
Richard Keith
Richard Keith
Richard Keith

Known for

Lucille Ball in I Love Lucy (1951)
I Love Lucy
8.5
TV Series
  • Little Ricky Ricardo
  • Little Ricky
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1957)
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
8.3
TV Series
  • Little Ricky Ricardo
Ron Howard, Frances Bavier, and Andy Griffith in The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
The Andy Griffith Show
8.4
TV Series
  • Johnny Paul Jason
  • Carter French
  • Johnny Paul
Shirley Temple in Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958)
Shirley Temple's Storybook
7.4
TV Series
  • Little Bears

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Actor

  • C Me Dance (2009)
    C Me Dance
  • A Shadow in the Streets
  • Ron Howard, Frances Bavier, and Andy Griffith in The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
    The Andy Griffith Show
  • Inger Stevens and William Windom in The Farmer's Daughter (1963)
    The Farmer's Daughter
  • The Joey Bishop Show (1961)
    The Joey Bishop Show
  • The Lucy Show (1962)
    The Lucy Show
  • Bill Dana and Maggie Peterson in The Bill Dana Show (1963)
    The Bill Dana Show
  • Vince Edwards in Ben Casey (1961)
    Ben Casey
  • George Maharis and Martin Milner in Route 66 (1960)
    Route 66
  • Shirley Temple in Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958)
    Shirley Temple's Storybook
  • The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1957)
    The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
  • Colgate Theatre (1958)
    Colgate Theatre
  • John Bromfield in The Sheriff of Cochise (1956)
    The Sheriff of Cochise
  • Lucille Ball in I Love Lucy (1951)
    I Love Lucy

Personal details

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    • Ballet Magnificat! - Executive Director
    • David and the Giants - Drummer
    • December 1, 1950
    • Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
    • 1976 - present (1 child)
  • (autobiography) "Life after Lucy"
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    • 1 Print Biography
    • 1 Interview
    • 1 Article

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    He is the last surviving regular cast member of I Love Lucy (1951).
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    I really think the person I identified with the most was Desi Arnaz because of his Latin culture; I was a Cajun from Louisiana and our cultures were very similar, and the fact that he was a percussionist and I was a percussionist, we had something in common. When he died [in 1986] I really took his death harder than anyone else's.
    • I Love Lucy
      (1951)
      $461 /week (1956)

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