Sidney Kibrick, child actor known from the Our Gang/Little Rascals comedy shorts in the 1930s, has passed away.

He got his start when his parents took him and his older brother, Leonard Kibrick, to a movie at Grauman's Chinese Theater, where a man — an agent — approached them and said he wanted to put the sons in movies. His parents, who had wanted their children to have an acting career, leapt at the chance.

The brothers appeared in The Bowery in 1933. The following year, Leonard appeared in his first Our Gang short. Originally Leonard played the neighborhood bully, giving the regular cast a tough time. Tommy Bond would replace Leonard as bully Butch in 1936.

Sidney Kibrick made his first appearance in 1935. He played recurring character "Woim" ("Worm", if you're not from Brooklyn) in around two dozen shorts. His final appearance in the shorts came in 1939.

Kibrick said that while the shoots were a lot of work for the kids — six to sixteen hours a day spent on set — he remembered those times fondly. "I was treated very well. I was treated like somebody special working in the movies. It was something that I enjoyed doing," he told Fox in 2022. "From ages five to 11, I was living the studio life. Those are memories I will never forget. It was a wonderful experience. I had fun."

Kibrick was making around $750 a week for the work — good money, especially during the depression, which helped his parents greatly.

He also appeared in Just Around the Corner with Shirley Temple in 1938 and Jesse James in 1939, among others.

However, at a young age, he decided that a career in show biz just wasn't for him. "I really felt that I was finished by age 11. I worked very hard and, then, that was it... I had a good experience and made some lifelong friends, but I wanted to have a normal life again. I convinced my parents that I didn’t want to do it anymore and that was it."

Kibrick went on to attend college at USC and became a real estate developer in Southern California. He still held his time in Hollywood as a positive one, and continued answering fan mail and organizing reunions for the Our Gang crew. In 2022, he attended an exhibit at the Hollywood Museum celebrating the 100th anniversary of the show.

The former child star was 97 years old.