Biography

According to "Pinocchio" sequence director Jack Kinney, Rub (the voice of Geppetto) was a Nazi sympathizer who drove the animation crew crazy with his ramblings about the glories of Adolf Hitler. They eventually got even with him when they did the live-action shooting for the scene with Geppetto fishing from inside Monstro the whale. They put Rub on a makeshift stage where he pretended to fish while the stage was jostled by some grips who "rocked the boat" to give the desired effect and effectively giving Rub a ride he never forgot.

Provided the physical likeness, the screen personality, and the voice of the puppeteer Gepetto in Walt Disney's animated Pinocchio (1940).

Mild-mannered, softly-intoned small part Austrian character actor in Hollywood, often seen as Germanic or Scandinavian villagers, musicians, innkeepers or valets.

When he was 15, he performed in a French drama in Vienna at the Imperial theater. Two years later, he was in the Tyrolean Alps with a company, "playing everything from very ancient grandpas to very young lovers.".

Christian Rub as known for his work in films of the late 1910s to the early 1950s, and was featured in more than 100 films.