Christian Rub

Acting

Born: 1886-04-13 in Graz, Austrian Empire [now Graz, Styria, Austria]

Died: 1956-04-14

Biography

Christian Rub (April 13, 1886 – April 14, 1956) was an Austrian-born American character actor. He was the visual basis and voice of Mister Geppetto in the animated Disney film Pinocchio (1940).

Acting

The Great Waltz

Coachman

Come Back, Miss Pipps

Mr. Swenson (uncredited)

Berlin Correspondent

Prisoner

Hidden Power

Doctor

Café Metropole

Maxl Schinner

Humanity

Schmiddy

No More Women

Big Pants

The Night Is Young

Café Proprietor (uncredited)

Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind

(voice) (archive footage)

The Leathernecks Have Landed

Schooner Captain

Mark of the Vampire

Little Man, What Now?

Herr Puttbreese

Luxury Liner

Peasant Father

Metropolitan

Weidel

Peter Ibbetson

Major Duquesnois

You Can't Take It with You

Schmidt

Mary Stevens, M.D.

Mary's Janitor Gus

Pinocchio

Geppetto (voice) (uncredited)

Father's Son

Lunk Nelson

Fall Guy

Swede

No Other Woman

Eli Bigavitch

Ladies Crave Excitement

Lars Swenson

Dangerously They Live

Mr. Steiner

The Crooked Circle

Old Dan

Hitch Hike Lady

Farmer

Let 'em Have It

Heinrich Henkel

We're Only Human

William Anderson

A Man of Sentiment

Herman Heupelkossel

I'll Give a Million

Commissionaire

Haunted House

Olaf Jensen

Something for the Birds

Leo Fischer

Earthbound

Etienne Almette

Four Sons

Kapek

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

Axel Nordstrom

A Dog of Flanders

Hans

Jungle Woman

George

The Fountain

Kerstholt

One More Spring

Man in Elevator

The Devil Is a Sissy

Tombstone Mason

Oil for the Lamps of China

Dr. Jorgen

Stolen Harmony

Mathew Huxley (uncredited)

Maybe It's Love

Ole - the Janitor (uncredited)

Henry Aldrich for President

School Janitor

Never Say Die

The Mayor

Nazi Agent

Mohr (uncredited)

Professor Beware

Gustave - Museum Attendant

Everything Happens at Night

Telegrapher

Outcast

Olaf, the Valet

Dracula's Daughter

Coach Driver in Transylvania (uncredited)

Fury

Sven Ahern (uncredited)

No Greater Glory

Watchman

Man of Two Worlds

Knudson

Sins of Man

Fritz

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Christian Jenson (uncredited)

Swiss Family Robinson

Thoren

3 Is a Family

Bellboy

Murder with Pictures

Olaf (uncredited)

When Love Is Young

Anton Werner

Forged Passport

Mr. Nelson

The Princess Comes Across

Gustavson (uncredited)

Captains Courageous

Old Clement (uncredited)

Music in the Air

Zipfelhuber

All This, and Heaven Too

Loti (uncredited)

Rhythm on the River

Pawnbroker

The Man from Yesterday

Swiss Terrace Waiter

Leather Burners

Sooky Withers

Heidi

Baker

The Belle of New York

Secrets of the French Police

Anton Dorain

Bureau of Missing Persons

Janitor (uncredited)

That's Entertainment, Part II

(archive footage)

Silver Dollar

Rische

It Could Happen to You

Clavish

Strange Confession

Mr. Moore

Once Upon a Time

Mr. Snapps (uncredited)

Princess O'Rourke

Janitor (uncredited)

The Spectacle Maker

Hans Schmidt

Tovarich

Trombone Player

Romance in the Rain

Slotnick

Age of Indiscretion

Briggs

Bomber's Moon

Johann

No Ransom

Budge (uncredited)

Tales of Manhattan

Wilson

The Kiss Before the Mirror

Man on the Wrong Floor

Mad About Music

Ski Patrol

Jakob Sorenson - Old Villager

Murder on a Bridle Path

Chris Thomas

The Great Waltz

Coachman

Come Back, Miss Pipps

Mr. Swenson (uncredited)

Berlin Correspondent

Prisoner

Hidden Power

Doctor

Café Metropole

Maxl Schinner

Humanity

Schmiddy

No More Women

Big Pants

The Night Is Young

Café Proprietor (uncredited)

Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind

(voice) (archive footage)

The Leathernecks Have Landed

Schooner Captain

Mark of the Vampire

Little Man, What Now?

Herr Puttbreese

Luxury Liner

Peasant Father

Metropolitan

Weidel

Peter Ibbetson

Major Duquesnois

You Can't Take It with You

Schmidt

Mary Stevens, M.D.

Mary's Janitor Gus

Pinocchio

Geppetto (voice) (uncredited)

Father's Son

Lunk Nelson

Fall Guy

Swede

No Other Woman

Eli Bigavitch

Ladies Crave Excitement

Lars Swenson

Dangerously They Live

Mr. Steiner

The Crooked Circle

Old Dan

Hitch Hike Lady

Farmer

Let 'em Have It

Heinrich Henkel

We're Only Human

William Anderson

A Man of Sentiment

Herman Heupelkossel

I'll Give a Million

Commissionaire

Haunted House

Olaf Jensen

Something for the Birds

Leo Fischer

Earthbound

Etienne Almette

Four Sons

Kapek

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

Axel Nordstrom

A Dog of Flanders

Hans

Jungle Woman

George

The Fountain

Kerstholt

One More Spring

Man in Elevator

The Devil Is a Sissy

Tombstone Mason

Oil for the Lamps of China

Dr. Jorgen

Stolen Harmony

Mathew Huxley (uncredited)

Maybe It's Love

Ole - the Janitor (uncredited)

Henry Aldrich for President

School Janitor

Never Say Die

The Mayor

Nazi Agent

Mohr (uncredited)

Professor Beware

Gustave - Museum Attendant

Everything Happens at Night

Telegrapher

Outcast

Olaf, the Valet

Dracula's Daughter

Coach Driver in Transylvania (uncredited)

Fury

Sven Ahern (uncredited)

No Greater Glory

Watchman

Man of Two Worlds

Knudson

Sins of Man

Fritz

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Christian Jenson (uncredited)

Swiss Family Robinson

Thoren

3 Is a Family

Bellboy

Murder with Pictures

Olaf (uncredited)

When Love Is Young

Anton Werner

Forged Passport

Mr. Nelson

The Princess Comes Across

Gustavson (uncredited)

Captains Courageous

Old Clement (uncredited)

Music in the Air

Zipfelhuber

All This, and Heaven Too

Loti (uncredited)

Rhythm on the River

Pawnbroker

The Man from Yesterday

Swiss Terrace Waiter

Leather Burners

Sooky Withers

Heidi

Baker

The Belle of New York

Secrets of the French Police

Anton Dorain

Bureau of Missing Persons

Janitor (uncredited)

That's Entertainment, Part II

(archive footage)

Silver Dollar

Rische

It Could Happen to You

Clavish

Strange Confession

Mr. Moore

Once Upon a Time

Mr. Snapps (uncredited)

Princess O'Rourke

Janitor (uncredited)

The Spectacle Maker

Hans Schmidt

Tovarich

Trombone Player

Romance in the Rain

Slotnick

Age of Indiscretion

Briggs

Bomber's Moon

Johann

No Ransom

Budge (uncredited)

Tales of Manhattan

Wilson

The Kiss Before the Mirror

Man on the Wrong Floor

Mad About Music

Ski Patrol

Jakob Sorenson - Old Villager

Murder on a Bridle Path

Chris Thomas