Title: Ricky Ricardo Jr.
Content:  Enrique Alberto Ricardo IV, "Little Ricky," is a fictional character from the American television series I Love Lucy (1951–57, with Ricky Jr. becoming a part of the show as of his birth in 1953) and The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1957–60). Little Ricky was played by a number of actors, including James John Ganzer, twins Richard and Ronald Lee Simmons, twins Michael and Joseph Mayer and, most notably, Keith Thibodeaux, billed as Little Ricky. Although the I Love Lucy announcer and the opening credits of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour gave his stage name as "Little Ricky", in his post-Lucy acting career, particularly his four-year irregular stint on The Andy Griffith Show, he was billed as Richard Keith. In the show, Little Ricky is the son of Lucy Ricardo and Ricky Ricardo. Little Ricky lives with his parents in a New York Brownstone apartment building, which is owned and run by his godparents; the family later moves to a large suburban house in Westport, Connecticut.
Title: I Love Lucy
Content:  Little Ricky as an infant in the 1952–53 season and a toddler from 1953 to 1956. However, for the 1956–57 season, Little Ricky suddenly aged by two years, becoming a young school-age boy from 1956 to 1960. Five actors played the role, two sets of twins and later Keith Thibodeaux, whose stage name when playing Ricky Ricardo Jr. was Richard Keith. (In the Superman episode, Little Ricky is mentioned as being five years old but it had been less than four years since the birth-of-Little-Ricky episode.) Jess Oppenheimer stated in his memoir, Laughs, Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time, that the initial plan was 
Title: Lucy and Ricky Ricardo
Content:  Ricky. Their son, Ricky Ricardo Jr. (usually called "Little Ricky"), was born in the middle of the show's second season. He was portrayed by child actor Richard Keith beginning in season 6. Lucy's full name (Lucille Esmeralda Ricardo McGillicuddy) is given in the Season 1 episodes "Fred and Ethel Fight" and "The Marriage License," and "The Passports" in Season 5. Ricky gives his full name in the Season 4 episode "Hollywood Anniversary" as Ricardo Alberto Fernando Ricardo y de Acha, but in the Season 6 episode "Lucy Raises Tulips" Lucy calls him "Enrique Alberto Fernando Ricardo y de Acha III".
Title: I Love Lucy
Content: Lucille Ball as Lucille Esmeralda "Lucy" McGillicuddy Ricardo ; Desi Arnaz as Enrique Alberto Fernando y de Acha "Ricky" Ricardo III ; Vivian Vance as Ethel Mae Potter Mertz (alternately "Ethel Louise" and "Ethel Roberta") ; William Frawley as Frederick "Fred" Hobart Mertz ; Richard Keith as Enrique Alberto Ricardo IV ("Ricky Ricardo Jr.") ; Twins Mike Mayer and Joe Mayer both played "Little Ricky" as a toddler ; Kathryn Card as Lucy's mother Mrs. McGillicuddy (also Minnie Finch in the earlier episode "Fan Magazine Interview") ; Mary Jane Croft as Betty Ramsey and various characters ; Frank Nelson as Freddie Fillmore 
Title: Lucy and Ricky Ricardo
Content:  Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, also known simply as Lucy and Ricky or the Ricardos, are fictional characters from the American television sitcom I Love Lucy, portrayed respectively by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The Ricardos also appear in The Lucy&ndash;Desi Comedy Hour, and Lucy also appears in one episode of The Ann Sothern Show. Together, Lucy and Ricky serve as a double act. Ricky is the straight man, a character very similar to Arnaz himself; he is a Cuban-American bandleader whose trademark song is "Babalu". Red-haired Lucy is his wife, who always gets into trouble and is usually caught at it 
Title: Richard Keith (actor)
Content:  Keith Thibodeaux (born December 1, 1950), also known as Richard Keith, is an American former child actor and musician, best known for playing Little Ricky on the television sitcoms I Love Lucy and The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour. He was billed as Richard Keith because his Cajun French last name, "Thibodeaux", was considered too difficult to pronounce by producer Desi Arnaz. He is the last living regular appearing cast member from I Love Lucy.
Title: I Love Lucy
Content:  outside of the home, but in these jobs, the show portrayed her as being inept outside of her usual domestic duties.  Lucy's husband, Ricky Ricardo, is an up-and-coming Cuban American singer and bandleader with an excitable personality. His patience is frequently tested by his wife's antics trying to get into showbiz, along with her exorbitant spending on clothes and furniture. When exasperated, he often reverts to speaking rapidly in Spanish. As with Lucy, not much is revealed about his past or family. Ricky's mother (played by actress Mary Emery) appears in two episodes; in another, Lucy mentions that he has five brothers. Ricky 
Title: I Love Lucy
Content:  New York Post article about the birth of Little Ricky. Rachel York starred as Ball and Danny Pino as Desi Arnaz. In October 2011, the stage play I Love Lucy Live on Stage premiered to sold-out houses at the Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles. Staged and directed by Rick Sparks, the show featured the performance of two I Love Lucy episodes – "The Benefit" and "Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined", presented to the theatre audience as though they were attending a filming at the Desilu Playhouse in the 1950s. In 2012, the show began a national tour which lasted 
Title: I Love Lucy
Content:  English, Ricky is portrayed as a driver of a horse-drawn cab who waits for fares at a pier where tourists arrive by ship. Ricky is hired to serve as one of Lucy's tour guides, and the two fall in love. Having coincidentally also met popular singer, Rudy Vallée, on the cruise ship, Lucy arranges an audition for Ricky, who is hired to be in Vallée's orchestra, thus allowing him to emigrate to the United States on the very ship on which Lucy and the Mertzes were returning. Lucy later states that Ricky played for Vallée only one night before being traded to Xavier 
Title: Ricky Ricardo Jr.
Content: Mother: Lucy Ricardo, played by Lucille Ball. ; Father: Ricky Ricardo, played by Desi Arnaz. ; Maternal Grandmother: Mrs. MacGillicuddy, played by Kathryn Card. ; Godfather: Fred Mertz played by William Frawley. ; Godmother: Ethel Mertz played by Vivian Vance. ; Babysitter: Mrs. Matilda Trumble played by Elizabeth Patterson. ; Classmates: Stevie Appleby and Bruce Ramsey. Lucy finds out she was expecting Little Ricky on the Season 2 episode "Lucy is Enceinte." The episode in which he is born, "Lucy goes to the Hospital," was aired on the same day as the birth of Lucille Ball's real son, Desi Arnaz Jr. – Monday, January 19, 1953.  Little Ricky's father buys him a set of drums in the 

Question: who played little ricky on i love lucy show?
Answer: Keith Thibodeaux.