‘Pulp Fiction’s The Gimp, Stephen Hibbert, Dead at 68
Writer and actor Stephen Hibbert — whose best-known position was The Gimp in 1994’s “Pulp Fiction” — has died, TMZ has realized.
A member of the family tells TMZ … Hibbert died of a coronary heart assault in Denver, Colorado on Monday, March 2. He was 68.
His kids Ronnie, Rosalind and Greg mentioned … “Our father, Stephen Hibbert, passed away unexpectedly this week. His life was full of love and dedication to the arts and his family. He will be dearly missed by many.”
Hibbert was born in Fleetwood, England. He started writing for tv within the Eighties, beginning with “Late Night With David Letterman,” went on to pen a number of animated kids’s TV reveals within the Nineteen Nineties. He additionally wrote for “Mad TV,” “Boy Meets World” … he wrote the 1994 movie “It’s Pat: The Movie,” starring Julia Sweeney.
He went on to seem on the massive display screen, enjoying a guard in (*68*) and performed a minor character in “The Cat in the Hat” — each Michael Myers flicks. He additionally taught improvisation at Chaos Bloom Theater in Denver and a movie principle course at Denver School of the Arts.
But Hibbert’s most memorable position was his half as The Gimp — a personality Bruce Willis‘Butch runs into the basement of an LA pawn store… inexplicably clad in a latex rubber bodysuit, full with a zippered hood masks, shackled with a series. He had no strains, aside from some grunting. Peter Greene — who not too long ago died after accidentally shooting himself — additionally appeared within the scene.
Stephen Hibbert was 68.
R.I.P.


