Birthday
1886/04/13
Day of death
1956/04/14 (70 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Graz, Austrian Empire [now Graz, Styria, Austria]
Also know as
Christian Rube, Chris Rube, Chriss Rubb
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).
(1938) The Great Waltz
as Coachman
(1941) Come Back, Miss Pipps
as Mr. Swenson (uncredited)
(1942) Berlin Correspondent
as Prisoner
(1939) Hidden Power
as Doctor
(1937) Café Metropole
as Maxl Schinner
(1933) Humanity
as Schmiddy
(1934) No More Women
as Big Pants
(1935) The Night Is Young
as Café Proprietor (uncredited)
(1995) Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind
as (voice) (archive footage)
(1936) The Leathernecks Have Landed
as Schooner Captain
(1935) Mark of the Vampire
as ---
(1934) Little Man, What Now?
as Herr Puttbreese
(1938) You Can't Take It with You
as Schmidt
(1933) No Other Woman
as Eli Bigavitch
(1933) Luxury Liner
as Peasant Father
(1933) Mary Stevens, M.D.
as Mary's Janitor Gus
(1935) Ladies Crave Excitement
as Lars Swenson
(1935) Peter Ibbetson
as Major Duquesnois
(1935) Metropolitan
as Weidel
(1940) Pinocchio
as Geppetto (voice) (uncredited)
(1941) Father's Son
as Lunk Nelson
(1941) Dangerously They Live
as Mr. Steiner
(1947) Fall Guy
as Swede
(1932) The Crooked Circle
as Old Dan
(1935) Hitch Hike Lady
as Farmer
(1935) Let 'em Have It
as Heinrich Henkel
(1935) We're Only Human
as William Anderson
(1933) A Man of Sentiment
as Herman Heupelkossel
(1938) I'll Give a Million
as Commissionaire
(1940) Haunted House
as Olaf Jensen
(1952) Something for the Birds
as Leo Fischer
(1940) Earthbound
as Etienne Almette
(1940) Four Sons
as Kapek
(1932) The Trial of Vivienne Ware
as Axel Nordstrom
(1935) A Dog of Flanders
as Hans
(1944) Jungle Woman
as George
(1934) The Fountain
as Kerstholt
(1935) One More Spring
as Man in Elevator
(1936) The Devil Is a Sissy
as Tombstone Mason
(1935) Oil for the Lamps of China
as Dr. Jorgen
(1935) Stolen Harmony
as Mathew Huxley (uncredited)
(1935) Maybe It's Love
as Ole - the Janitor (uncredited)
(1941) Henry Aldrich for President
as School Janitor
(1939) Never Say Die
as The Mayor
(1942) Nazi Agent
as Mohr (uncredited)
(1938) Professor Beware
as Gustave - Museum Attendant
(1939) Everything Happens at Night
as Telegrapher
(1937) Outcast
as Olaf, the Valet
(1936) Dracula's Daughter
as Coach Driver in Transylvania
(1936) Fury
as Sven Ahern (uncredited)
(1934) No Greater Glory
as Watchman
(1934) Man of Two Worlds
as Knudson
(1936) Sins of Man
as Fritz
(1936) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
as Christian Jenson (uncredited)
(1940) Swiss Family Robinson
as Thoren
(1944) 3 Is a Family
as Bellboy
(1936) Murder with Pictures
as Olaf (uncredited)
(1937) When Love Is Young
as Anton Werner
(1939) Forged Passport
as Mr. Nelson
(1936) The Princess Comes Across
as Gustavson (uncredited)
(1937) Captains Courageous
as Old Clement (uncredited)
(1934) Music in the Air
as Zipfelhuber
(1940) All This, and Heaven Too
as Loti (uncredited)
(1940) Rhythm on the River
as Pawnbroker
(1932) The Man from Yesterday
as Swiss Terrace Waiter
(1943) Leather Burners
as Sooky Withers
(1937) Heidi
as Baker
(1919) The Belle of New York
as ---
(1932) Secrets of the French Police
as Anton Dorain
(1933) Bureau of Missing Persons
as Janitor (uncredited)
(1976) That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
(1932) Silver Dollar
as Rische
(1937) It Could Happen to You
as Clavish
(1945) Strange Confession
as Mr. Moore
(1944) Once Upon a Time
as Mr. Snapps (uncredited)
(1943) Princess O'Rourke
as Janitor (uncredited)
(1934) The Spectacle Maker
as Hans Schmidt
(1937) Tovarich
as Trombone Player
(1934) Romance in the Rain
as Slotnick
(1935) Age of Indiscretion
as Briggs
(1943) Bomber's Moon
as Johann
(1934) No Ransom
as Budge (uncredited)
(1942) Tales of Manhattan
as Cello Player (Laughton sequence)
(1933) The Kiss Before the Mirror
as Man on the Wrong Floor
(1938) Mad About Music
as ---
(1940) Ski Patrol
as Jakob Sorenson - Old Villager
(1936) Murder on a Bridle Path
as Chris Thomas