Christian Rub

Christian Rub

Birthday: 1886-04-13

Place of Birth: Graz, Austrian Empire [now Graz, Styria, Austria]

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).

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The Great Waltz
The Great Waltz

Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer....

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Come Back, Miss Pipps
Come Back, Miss Pipps

On Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school hours....

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Berlin Correspondent
Berlin Correspondent

Bill Roberts is an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. ...

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Hidden Power
Hidden Power

Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely n...

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Café Metropole
Café Metropole

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress....

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Humanity
Humanity

A doctor in New York City, who has had to raise his son without a mother since his wife died, strugg...

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No More Women
No More Women

Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no...

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The Night Is Young
The Night Is Young

Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor...

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Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind
Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind

Sing, dance, and play along with your favorite Disney songs! It's fun and easy as you read the on-sc...

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The Leathernecks Have Landed
The Leathernecks Have Landed

Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherne...

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Mark of the Vampire
Mark of the Vampire

Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications p...

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Little Man, What Now?
Little Man, What Now?

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband...

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Luxury Liner
Luxury Liner

This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious t...

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Fall Guy
Fall Guy

A drugged man covered in blood is picked up by police. Before the cops can get answers the man escap...

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Pinocchio
Pinocchio

When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy...

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Father's Son
Father's Son

A young boy seeks love and understanding from his cold, demanding father....

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You Can't Take It with You
You Can't Take It with You

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony K...

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No Other Woman
No Other Woman

A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortuna...

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Ladies Crave Excitement
Ladies Crave Excitement

Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures....

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Metropolitan
Metropolitan

Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She l...

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Dangerously They Live
Dangerously They Live

A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents....

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Mary Stevens, M.D.
Mary Stevens, M.D.

Lifelong friends and medical school graduates Mary Stevens and Don Andrews decide to set up office t...

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Peter Ibbetson
Peter Ibbetson

When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live wi...

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The Crooked Circle
The Crooked Circle

A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occ...

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Hitch Hike Lady
Hitch Hike Lady

Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to Califor...

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Let 'em Have It
Let 'em Have It

Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. ...

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We're Only Human
We're Only Human

A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster....

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A Man of Sentiment
A Man of Sentiment

A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart...

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I'll Give a Million
I'll Give a Million

After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that...

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Haunted House
Haunted House

Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder....

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Something for the Birds
Something for the Birds

A conservationist fights to save the habitat of the California condor and to do it she works her way...

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Earthbound
Earthbound

A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice....

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Four Sons
Four Sons

Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is ...

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The Trial of Vivienne Ware
The Trial of Vivienne Ware

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance....

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A Dog of Flanders
A Dog of Flanders

Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition i...

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Jungle Woman
Jungle Woman

Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy o...

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The Fountain
The Fountain

Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned Briti...

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One More Spring
One More Spring

Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on th...

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The Devil Is a Sissy
The Devil Is a Sissy

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-wel...

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Oil for the Lamps of China
Oil for the Lamps of China

An American oil company representative risks sacrificing his marriage for his career in the rural la...

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Stolen Harmony
Stolen Harmony

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to ...

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Maybe It's Love
Maybe It's Love

Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in l...

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Henry Aldrich for President
Henry Aldrich for President

Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president....

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Never Say Die
Never Say Die

Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. M...

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Nazi Agent
Nazi Agent

Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a ...

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Professor Beware
Professor Beware

Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join...

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Everything Happens at Night
Everything Happens at Night

Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter....

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Outcast
Outcast

A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when o...

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Dracula's Daughter
Dracula's Daughter

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings....

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Fury
Fury

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the ...

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No Greater Glory
No Greater Glory

A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang....

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Man of Two Worlds
Man of Two Worlds

A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman....

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Sins of Man
Sins of Man

Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to lo...

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and ...

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Swiss Family Robinson
Swiss Family Robinson

A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family m...

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3 Is a Family
3 Is a Family

Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays ...

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Murder with Pictures
Murder with Pictures

Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the sto...

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When Love Is Young
When Love Is Young

In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to sch...

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Forged Passport
Forged Passport

Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-f...

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The Princess Comes Across
The Princess Comes Across

A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds...

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Captains Courageous
Captains Courageous

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transat...

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Music in the Air
Music in the Air

A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead rol...

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All This, and Heaven Too
All This, and Heaven Too

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Du...

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Rhythm on the River
Rhythm on the River

Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his musi...

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The Man from Yesterday
The Man from Yesterday

A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She tr...

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Leather Burners
Leather Burners

As rustled cattle have mysteriously disappeared, Johnny sends for his friend Hoppy, Hoppy arrives an...

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Heidi
Heidi

Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her re...

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The Belle of New York
The Belle of New York

An old inventor is robbed of his inventions by an unscrupulous rich man. When the inventor dies, his...

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Secrets of the French Police
Secrets of the French Police

When a flower girl is kidnapped by a deranged White Russian, to impersonate the missing Princess Ana...

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Bureau of Missing Persons
Bureau of Missing Persons

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police wor...

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That's Entertainment, Part II
That's Entertainment, Part II

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...

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Silver Dollar
Silver Dollar

A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty....

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It Could Happen to You
It Could Happen to You

A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the c...

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Strange Confession
Strange Confession

A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who relea...

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Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time

Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set o...

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Princess O'Rourke
Princess O'Rourke

A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States....

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The Spectacle Maker
The Spectacle Maker

A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th C...

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Tovarich
Tovarich

When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they...

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Romance in the Rain
Romance in the Rain

The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cind...

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Age of Indiscretion
Age of Indiscretion

A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert...

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Bomber's Moon
Bomber's Moon

An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set...

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No Ransom
No Ransom

In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teet...

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Tales of Manhattan
Tales of Manhattan

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by it...

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The Kiss Before the Mirror
The Kiss Before the Mirror

When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who s...

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Mad About Music
Mad About Music

A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters fr...

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Ski Patrol
Ski Patrol

In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders....

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Murder on a Bridle Path
Murder on a Bridle Path

When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper...

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