Christian Rub
Date of birth: 1886-04-13
Place of birth: Graz, Austrian Empire [now Graz, Styria, Austria]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Christian Rube, Chris Rube, Chriss Rubb
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).
Movie Credits
The Great Waltz
1938-11-04
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
Come Back, Miss Pipps
1941-10-24
On Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school hours.
Berlin Correspondent
1942-08-17
Bill Roberts is an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor.
Hidden Power
1939-09-07
Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely n
Café Metropole
1937-04-28
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
Humanity
1933-03-03
A doctor in New York City, who has had to raise his son without a mother since his wife died, strugg
No More Women
1934-03-03
Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no
The Night Is Young
1935-01-11
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor
Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind
1995-07-21
Sing, dance, and play along with your favorite Disney songs! It's fun and easy as you read the on-sc
The Leathernecks Have Landed
1936-02-17
Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherne
Mark of the Vampire
1935-04-26
Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications p
Little Man, What Now?
1934-06-04
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband
You Can't Take It with You
1938-09-01
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony K
No Other Woman
1933-01-06
A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortuna
Luxury Liner
1933-02-03
This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious t
Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933-07-22
Lifelong friends and medical school graduates Mary Stevens and Don Andrews decide to set up office t
Ladies Crave Excitement
1935-06-21
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
Peter Ibbetson
1935-11-07
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live wi
Metropolitan
1935-10-17
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She l
Pinocchio
1940-02-23
When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy
Father's Son
1941-02-12
A young boy seeks love and understanding from his cold, demanding father.
Dangerously They Live
1941-12-24
A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.
Fall Guy
1947-03-15
A drugged man covered in blood is picked up by police. Before the cops can get answers the man escap
The Crooked Circle
1932-09-25
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occ
Hitch Hike Lady
1935-12-28
Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to Califor
Let 'em Have It
1935-05-15
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces.
We're Only Human
1935-12-27
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
A Man of Sentiment
1933-09-15
A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart
I'll Give a Million
1938-07-27
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that
Haunted House
1940-07-21
Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.
Something for the Birds
1952-09-30
A conservationist fights to save the habitat of the California condor and to do it she works her way
Earthbound
1940-06-06
A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.
Four Sons
1940-06-14
Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
1932-05-01
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
A Dog of Flanders
1935-03-22
Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition i
Jungle Woman
1944-06-01
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy o
The Fountain
1934-08-22
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned Briti
One More Spring
1935-02-15
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on th
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936-09-18
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-wel
Oil for the Lamps of China
1935-06-08
An American oil company representative risks sacrificing his marriage for his career in the rural la
Stolen Harmony
1935-04-20
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to
Maybe It's Love
1935-01-12
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in l
Henry Aldrich for President
1941-10-17
Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.
Never Say Die
1939-03-08
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. M
Nazi Agent
1942-03-01
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a
Professor Beware
1938-07-29
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join
Everything Happens at Night
1939-12-22
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Outcast
1937-02-05
A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when o
Dracula's Daughter
1936-05-11
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Fury
1936-06-05
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the
No Greater Glory
1934-03-30
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
Man of Two Worlds
1934-01-13
A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.
Sins of Man
1936-06-19
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to lo
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936-04-09
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and
Swiss Family Robinson
1940-02-08
A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family m
3 Is a Family
1944-11-23
Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays
Murder with Pictures
1936-09-24
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the sto
When Love Is Young
1937-03-26
In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to sch
Forged Passport
1939-04-23
Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-f
The Princess Comes Across
1936-05-22
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds
Captains Courageous
1937-06-25
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transat
Music in the Air
1934-12-13
A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead rol
All This, and Heaven Too
1940-07-05
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Du
Rhythm on the River
1940-08-28
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his musi
The Man from Yesterday
1932-06-24
A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She tr
Leather Burners
1943-05-28
As rustled cattle have mysteriously disappeared, Johnny sends for his friend Hoppy, Hoppy arrives an
Heidi
1937-10-15
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her re
The Belle of New York
1919-03-26
An old inventor is robbed of his inventions by an unscrupulous rich man. When the inventor dies, his
Secrets of the French Police
1932-12-02
When a flower girl is kidnapped by a deranged White Russian, to impersonate the missing Princess Ana
Bureau of Missing Persons
1933-09-16
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police wor
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976-05-16
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi
Silver Dollar
1932-12-22
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
It Could Happen to You
1937-06-28
A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the c
Strange Confession
1945-10-05
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who relea
Once Upon a Time
1944-06-29
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set o
Princess O'Rourke
1943-10-23
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
The Spectacle Maker
1934-09-20
A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th C
Tovarich
1937-12-25
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they
Romance in the Rain
1934-08-13
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cind
Age of Indiscretion
1935-05-10
A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert
Bomber's Moon
1943-08-05
An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set
No Ransom
1934-10-07
In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teet
Tales of Manhattan
1942-08-05
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by it
The Kiss Before the Mirror
1933-05-04
When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who s
Mad About Music
1938-02-27
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters fr
Ski Patrol
1940-05-09
In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.
Murder on a Bridle Path
1936-04-17
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper