Christian Rub
Born: 1886-04-13 in Graz, Austrian Empire [now Graz, Styria, Austria]
Died: 1956-04-14
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
1995
- Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind as (voice) (archive footage)
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
1955
- MGM Parade as self
1952
- Something for the Birds as Leo Fischer
1947
- Fall Guy as Swede
1945
- Strange Confession as Mr. Moore
1944
- Jungle Woman as George
- Once Upon a Time as Mr. Snapps (uncredited)
- 3 Is a Family as Bellboy
1943
- Leather Burners as Sooky Withers
- Bomber's Moon as Johann
- Princess O'Rourke as Janitor (uncredited)
1942
- Nazi Agent as Mohr (uncredited)
- Tales of Manhattan as Wilson
- Berlin Correspondent as Prisoner
1941
- Dangerously They Live as Mr. Steiner
- Come Back, Miss Pipps as Mr. Swenson (uncredited)
- Henry Aldrich for President as School Janitor
- Father's Son as Lunk Nelson
1940
- Pinocchio as Geppetto (voice) (uncredited)
- All This, and Heaven Too as Loti (uncredited)
- Rhythm on the River as Pawnbroker
- Earthbound as Etienne Almette
- Four Sons as Kapek
- Swiss Family Robinson as Thoren
- Haunted House as Olaf Jensen
- Ski Patrol as Jakob Sorenson - Old Villager
1939
- Hidden Power as Doctor
- Never Say Die as The Mayor
- Everything Happens at Night as Telegrapher
- Forged Passport as Mr. Nelson
1938
- You Can't Take It with You as Schmidt
- I'll Give a Million as Commissionaire
- Mad About Music
- The Great Waltz as Coachman
- Professor Beware as Gustave - Museum Attendant
1937
- Heidi as Baker
- Captains Courageous as Old Clement (uncredited)
- It Could Happen to You as Clavish
- Tovarich as Trombone Player
- Café Metropole as Maxl Schinner
- Outcast as Olaf, the Valet
- When Love Is Young as Anton Werner
1936
- Fury as Sven Ahern (uncredited)
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as Christian Jenson (uncredited)
- Dracula's Daughter as Coach Driver in Transylvania (uncredited)
- The Princess Comes Across as Gustavson (uncredited)
- The Leathernecks Have Landed as Schooner Captain
- The Devil Is a Sissy as Tombstone Mason
- Sins of Man as Fritz
- Murder with Pictures as Olaf (uncredited)
- Murder on a Bridle Path as Chris Thomas
1935
- Mark of the Vampire
- The Night Is Young as Café Proprietor (uncredited)
- Peter Ibbetson as Major Duquesnois
- A Dog of Flanders as Hans
- Oil for the Lamps of China as Dr. Jorgen
- Stolen Harmony as Mathew Huxley (uncredited)
- One More Spring as Man in Elevator
- Metropolitan as Weidel
- We're Only Human as William Anderson
- Maybe It's Love as Ole - the Janitor (uncredited)
- Let 'em Have It as Heinrich Henkel
- Age of Indiscretion as Briggs
- Hitch Hike Lady as Farmer
- Ladies Crave Excitement as Lars Swenson
1934
- The Fountain as Kerstholt
- Little Man, What Now? as Herr Puttbreese
- No Ransom as Budge (uncredited)
- The Spectacle Maker as Hans Schmidt
- Music in the Air as Zipfelhuber
- Romance in the Rain as Slotnick
- No Greater Glory as Watchman
- No More Women as Big Pants
- Man of Two Worlds as Knudson
1933
- Mary Stevens, M.D. as Mary's Janitor Gus
- Luxury Liner as Peasant Father
- The Kiss Before the Mirror as Man on the Wrong Floor
- Humanity as Schmiddy
- No Other Woman as Eli Bigavitch
- Bureau of Missing Persons as Janitor (uncredited)
- A Man of Sentiment as Herman Heupelkossel
1932
- Silver Dollar as Rische
- The Man from Yesterday as Swiss Terrace Waiter
- Secrets of the French Police as Anton Dorain
- The Crooked Circle as Old Dan
- The Trial of Vivienne Ware as Axel Nordstrom