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  Keith Thibodeaux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Keith Thibodeaux (born December 1, 1950) is a former child actor and musician, best known for playing "Little Ricky" in the popular I Love Lucy and The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour television shows.
Thibodeaux was making $500 a week at the age of 3, touring with the Horace Heidt Orchestra, when he was "discovered" by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.
Thibodeaux returned to the southern United States in 1979 to rejoin the band David and the Giants only to learn that the other band members had also become Christians.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Keith_Thibodeaux   (383 words)

  
 Keith Thibodeaux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Keith Thibodeaux (born December 1, 1950) is a former child actor and musician, best known for playing "Little Ricky" in the popular I Love Lucy and television shows.
Thibodeaux was making $500 a week at the age of 3, touring with the, when he was "discovered" by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.
Thibodeaux returned to the southern United States in 1979 to rejoin the band only to learn that the other band members had also become Christians.
www.barnstabletown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Keith_Thibodeaux   (377 words)

  
 Newhouse C1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Keith Thibodeaux, former child actor who played Little Ricky on "I Love Lucy," tells an evangelical audience in Ohio that "the one thing I knew was that God always had his hand on me." (Photo by Steve Cutri)
Thibodeaux grew up in Louisiana, first demonstrating his musical ability with knives and forks on the kitchen table.
Thibodeaux said he began to do drugs, drink and smoke, and tried to forget the role that made him America's darling in the mid-'50s.
www.newhousenews.com /archive/story1c060701.html   (925 words)

  
 Yesterday's Memories: Keith Thibodeaux
When Thibodeaux walked into the studio in 1956, he was unaware that over two hundred youngsters had already auditioned for the part of Little Ricky, the new TV son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
Thibodeaux's appearances on TAGS ended in 1966 when his parents divorced and the young drummer/actor moved back to Louisiana from California with his mother and siblings.
Not surprisingly, Keith Thibodeaux was the same cordial person when I interviewed him as he had been when we met in 1997.
www.mayberry.com /tagsrwc/wbmutbb/anewsome/private/ym_keith_thibodeaux.htm   (3069 words)

  
 Keith Thibodeaux
Keith Thibodeaux was born on December 1, 1950, in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Keith's stage name was changed to Richard Keith, because Thibodeaux (tib-uh-dough) was a hard name to pronounce.
Keith loved both Desi and Lucy and he reminds the general public today that Desi had a lot more to do with the formation of the show.
www.mayberryinthemidwest.com /mayberry/stars/thibo.html   (738 words)

  
 Keith Thibodeaux (Little Ricky) Biography | Youns.com
Born in Louisiana, Keith was discovered at the age of three by bandleader, Horace Heidt.
His professional name became Richard Keith, and he appeared with Lucille and Desi on all of their TV shows until 1960, when the couple divorced.
This forced Keith and his family to move back to their native Louisiana, as they could no longer afford to live in California.
www.youns.com /lucy/keiththibodeaux.asp   (357 words)

  
 News - Lafayette Economic Development Authority
Keith Thibodeaux, technology manager for the Lafayette Economic Development Authority, said Tuesday that several leases are pending, but he would not identify the companies.
Thibodeaux said the new plans displayed in artist renderings are impressive.
Thibodeaux said the firms were chosen based on their work at the National Wetlands Research Center and the Estuarine Habitats and Coastal Fisheries Center.
www.lafayette.org /site.php?pageID=102&newsID=32   (573 words)

  
 Pentecostal Evangel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Thus, as a child actor, Keith Thibodeaux achieved a rare feat: a recurring role on two television series that hit number one in the Nielsen ratings.
Thibodeaux moved back home to Louisiana where his unemployed mother scrambled to earn a living and raise him and his five younger siblings.
Thibodeaux stayed with the band for another decade, and many audience members gave their lives to the Lord at concerts.
pentecostalevangel.ag.org /Articles2005/4763_TV.cfm   (1642 words)

  
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Their drummer, Keith Thibodeaux, was the former Little Ricky on the "I Love Lucy" show.
Keith would eventually leave D&G because of his decision to serve the Lord, but would later re-join the new "Christian" David & the Giants in 1979.
Keith is pictured above with the rest of the band.
www.davidandthegiants.com   (377 words)

  
 Keith Thibodeaux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hailed as a child prodigy, Keith started drumming at the age of two in Lafayette, LA. His abilities led him to a national tour, a starring role as "Little Ricky Ricardo" and various acting stints on television, including "The Andy Griffith Show," "Route 66," "The Shirley Temple Playhouse," "Hazel," and many more.
As a drummer, singer, and songwriter with "David and the Giants," Keith toured extensively in the United States, Canada, Jamaica, and England, recording a dozen albums before leaving the group in 1989 to pursue other interests.
Keith’s book, Life After Lucy, tells the story of his life as Little Ricky on the "I Love Lucy" show, and subsequent encounter with Jesus Christ as savior.
www.balletmagnificat.com /bios/keith.html   (272 words)

  
 BayouBuzz.com - Louisiana Politics and News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Keith Thibodeaux: Boy, now that is going to be hard to describe in an IM chat.
Keith Thibodeaux: The most unique thing about LITE is that it is owned by an economic development group, and dedicated to economic development.
Keith Thibodeaux: LITE will be connected with LONI and through LONI to National Lambda rail.
www.bayoubuzz.com /articles.aspx?aid=3702   (1274 words)

  
 DenverPost.com - Katrina's Aftermath
Keith Thibodeaux isn't exactly accustomed to having a news crew take his picture while he gets a haircut.
Keith Thibodeaux rode out the storm on a ship built for the Navy by his employer, Northrop Grumman.
Alicia Thibodeaux and her daughter spent three days on the second-floor balcony of their home before "a gentleman in a boat" rescued them.
www.denverpost.com /katrina/ci_3009481   (1047 words)

  
 djournal.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Thibodeaux should know because he played "Little Ricky" on the hit show that everyone reading this column should know.
Now, Thibodeaux is the executive director of Ballet Magnificat!, a professional ballet company from Jackson founded by his wife, Kathy.
Thibodeaux has a performing background, but it's clear his wife and daughter wear the dancing shoes in the family.
www.djournal.com /pages/story.asp?ID=194541&pub=1   (446 words)

  
 TheInd.com - News | Business | Culture - Weekly - Lafayette LA
Keith Thibodeaux took a page out of Dick Cheney’s handbook for his hiring as Lafayette Consolidated Government’s first chief information officer.
Thibodeaux says this goal can realistically be achieved in one year’s time, adding LCG should be putting out a Request For Information to potential vendors in the coming months to help weigh the available options.
Thibodeaux says a citywide wireless network should become a reality regardless of what becomes of Lafayette Utilities System’s fiber-to-the-home proposal, though the two would work especially well together.
www.theind.com /around3.asp?CID=36504619   (879 words)

  
 JS Online: Packers will start Jue if Butler can't do it
Cornerback Keith Thibodeaux, a career nickel back for the Minnesota Vikings and two other National Football League teams, was signed as a free agent Monday to facilitate the position change for Jue.
Thibodeaux, 5-101/2 and 192, played five games for the Vikings before being waived Oct. 15.
Thibodeaux, 27, said he hadn't played safety since his redshirt freshman year of college.
www.jsonline.com /packer/news/oct01/packnot30102901.asp?format=print   (1057 words)

  
 Art & Understanding
Keith?s name never appeared in the original credits, and he auditioned to play one of the Von Trapp kids in The Sound of Music).
At the exhibit, Keith and I leisurely stroll past some of the Titantic?s cargo: teacups, luggage, spectacles, watches, books, etc., all retrieved from the bottom of the ocean.
(Keith grins assuredly.) Believing in the Lord helps me through someone?s passing, because I believe that this life is not the end.
www.aumag.org /features/RubyNovember03.html   (911 words)

  
 Letter From Editor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Keith played 'Little Ricky' on the I Love Lucy' television series when he was a boy.
Keith eventually went on to be a drummer for David and the Giants, and today he manages his wife's professional ballet company.
Keith gives this advice, "When you know that God has a destiny for your life, you can go through whatever the devil tries to throw at you...
www.connectionmagazine.org /archives_old/2001_04/fromeditor.htm   (509 words)

  
 Whatever Happened To: Keith Thibodeaux
Young Keith Thibodeaux was renamed Richard Keith and found a comfortable career at Desilu studios on I Love Lucy and later as Opie's friend Jason Paul on the popular Andy Griffith Show
Keith suffered both an identity crisis (many people STILL assumed that "Little Ricky" was really Desi Arnaz Jr.) and virtual unemployability in the late 1960s and 1970s.
After the collapse of his rock band David and the Giants and a drug problem Keith became a born-again Christian in 1978, married, and reformed his band into a Christian-rock ministry which toured the gospel circuits well into the 1980s.
www.weht.net /WEHT/Keith_Thibodeaux.html   (202 words)

  
 Biography for Richard Keith (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Keith Thibodeaux, billed as "Richard Keith" in "I Love Lucy"; episodes, started playing drums at the age of two in Lafayette, Louisiana.
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.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0445287/bio   (329 words)

  
 Lafayette Consolidated Government
Thibodeaux has over 20 years in the IT field with experience ranging from running a startup IT company to managing a national computer network covering 42 states.
Thibodeaux also serves as Chairman of Zydetech, and was the key organizer behind this year’s first-ever TechSouth IT Summit.
Thibodeaux’s last day at LEDA will be Friday, November 19th.
www.lafayettegov.org /Presidents/dpt120NewsArchive.asp?id=1687   (481 words)

  
 Packers.com » News » Press Releases » 2001 » 11 » 11-19c   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Thibodeaux (pronounced "TIB-ah-DOE"), in his second hitch with the Packers, began the 2001 season with Minnesota, posting 5 tackles from his defensive back position and 2 additional special teams stops before being placed on waivers on October 15.
Thibodeaux remained on Minnesota's roster through the 2000 season, during which he weighed in with 19 tackles as a defensive back, 17 of them unassisted, while playing in all 16 games.
Terminated March 23, 2001, he later re-signed as a free agent July 27, 2001, and was with the Vikings through the preseason and the first five weeks of the regular season.
www.packers.com /news/releases/2001/11/11-19c.html   (646 words)

  
 ACTOR LED ROCK BAND TO CHRIST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Keith Thibodeaux, the pint-sized actor who portrayed the son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz on the old ``I Love Lucy'' TV show, introduced his fellow performers to Christ.
Keith, who had quit the band, told me I needed Jesus,'' Huff recalled.
Thibodeaux rejoined David & The Giants in 1979, leaving 10 years later to join Ballet Magnificat, a dance group featuring his wife, Kathy.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp940925/09230264.htm   (540 words)

  
 Boulder City Ballet Company - amazing story
Desi and I were married in 1987 and were watching a ballet competition on TV one night and I saw Kathy dancing -- but the name on the screen was Kathy Thibodeaux and my Kathy's last name wasn't Thibodeaux.
Desi then said that Keith Thibodeaux (who played Little Ricky on the "I Love Lucy" Show) had married a ballerina.
The picture to the right is Desi and Keith together for the first time in 10 years..
www.humorinthenews.com /BCBCo/pages/story.html   (407 words)

  
 AP Online: Vikes Put Thomas, Thibodeaux on IR@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Vikes Put Thomas, Thibodeaux on IR «Read the Full Article, get a FREE TRIAL for instant access» This is a premium article.
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) -- Free safety Orlando Thomas and cornerback Keith Thibodeaux were placed on injured reserve Friday, meaning their 1999 seasons are over.
Thibodeaux has been out for several weeks after separating his right shoulder.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:24382301&refid=holomed_1   (204 words)

  
 Alibris: Thibodeaux
The true story of Keith Thibodeaux, who at the age of five was chosen to star in the much loved TV series.
Keith reveals his life with Lucy, Desi, and their family, his struggles with fame, insecurity, drugs, and rock and roll, and how he found a new beginning in Jesus.
by Mark E. Thibodeaux, S.J. Human lives and human issues run the gamut from addiction and anger to weariness and worries.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Thibodeaux   (610 words)

  
 The Daily Advertiser - www.theadvertiser.com - Lafayette, LA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Keith Thibodeaux, former chief technology officer for the Lafayette Economic Development Authority, joined Lafayette Consolidated Government in November 2004 as its first chief information officer.
Daily Advertiser reporter Claire Taylor talked with Thibodeaux Thursday about what he's accomplished in his first few months and what his plans are for local government.
I don't think anybody can definitively say this is everything that's going to come out of that, but I think history has some pretty great examples that it's going to be some great stuff.
www.acadiananow.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050307/NEWS01/503070330/1002   (744 words)

  
 AdaEveningNews.com - Ada, Oklahoma - 'Little Ricky' writes about 'I Love Lucy' days   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
With his distinguished receding gray hairline, no one would recognize Keith Thibodeaux as the fl-haired tyke who played the role of Little Ricky on the old I Love Lucy sitcom from the 1950s.
Thibodeaux went on to play the role of Johnny Paul Jason, best friend to Ron Howard’s character, Opie Taylor, on "The Andy Griffith Show.
Thibodeaux is married to Kathy Thibodeaux, the founder of Ballet Magnificat!
www.adaeveningnews.com /entertainment/cnhinsentertainment_story_032163936.html   (564 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This year, the fun pick is cornerback Keith Thibodeaux of Northwest Louisiana State.
Secondary coach Tom Hayes didn't work Thibodeaux out until Friday, and the Skins actually traded their sixth- and seventh-round choices to Atlanta to take him in the fifth round.
Hayes said he was impressed at Thibodeaux's coverage skills and believed he could step in and compete with Darryl Pounds for the role of third cornerback.
www.webskins.org /draft97/5c.html   (241 words)

  
 A Ballerina's Dream Come True - Today's Christian
Kathy Thibodeaux had a problem, a disagreement with her ballet company over her freedom of artistic expression.
The principal dancer in Ballet Mississippi was headed for the 1982 International Ballet Competition, the Olympics of dance, and her chance to go toe-to-toe against the best in the world.
During her spiritual awakening, Kathy met a musician named Keith Thibodeaux, a drummer in David and the Giants, a popular Christian rock band.
www.christianitytoday.com /tc/9r2/9r2048.html   (1955 words)

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