Christian Rub

Born: 1886-04-13

Christian Rub 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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Pinocchio

as Geppetto (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1940-02-23

When loving Geppetto creates a wooden puppet, his wish is granted when it comes to life as a...

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

as Christian Jenson (uncredited)
Released: 1936-04-09

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

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You Can't Take It with You

as Schmidt
Released: 1938-09-01

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

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Heidi

as Baker
Released: 1937-10-15

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

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Captains Courageous

as Old Clement (uncredited)
Released: 1937-06-25

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

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Dracula's Daughter

as Coach Driver in Transylvania
Released: 1936-05-11

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

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Fury

as Sven Ahern (uncredited)
Released: 1936-06-05

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

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Mark of the Vampire

as uncredited
Released: 1935-04-26

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

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That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)
Released: 1976-05-16

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

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All This, and Heaven Too

as Loti (uncredited)
Released: 1940-07-05

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

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Tales of Manhattan

as Cello Player (Laughton sequence)
Released: 1942-08-05

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

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Nazi Agent

as Mohr (uncredited)
Released: 1942-03-01

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

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Peter Ibbetson

as Major Duquesnois
Released: 1935-11-07

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

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Strange Confession

as Mr. Moore
Released: 1945-10-05

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

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Silver Dollar

as Rische
Released: 1932-12-22

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

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Outcast

as Olaf, the Valet
Released: 1937-02-05

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

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The Great Waltz

as Coachman
Released: 1938-11-04

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

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I'll Give a Million

as Commissionaire
Released: 1938-07-27

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

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Swiss Family Robinson

as Thoren
Released: 1940-02-08

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

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The Fountain

as Kerstholt
Released: 1934-08-22

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

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Little Man, What Now?

as Herr Puttbreese
Released: 1934-06-04

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

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Princess O'Rourke

as Janitor (uncredited)
Released: 1943-10-23

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

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Earthbound

as Etienne Almette
Released: 1940-06-06

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

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Stolen Harmony

as Mathew Huxley (uncredited)
Released: 1935-04-20

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

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Leather Burners

as Sooky Withers
Released: 1943-05-28

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

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Fall Guy

as Swede
Released: 1947-03-15

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

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Luxury Liner

as Peasant Father
Released: 1933-02-03

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

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The Devil Is a Sissy

as Tombstone Mason
Released: 1936-09-18

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his...

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The Night Is Young

as Café Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: 1935-01-11

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

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Tovarich

as Trombone Player
Released: 1937-12-25

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

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Mary Stevens, M.D.

as Mary's Janitor Gus
Released: 1933-07-22

A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.

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Professor Beware

as Gustave - Museum Attendant
Released: 1938-07-29

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

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Once Upon a Time

as Mr. Snapps (uncredited)
Released: 1944-06-29

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

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The Kiss Before the Mirror

as Man on the Wrong Floor
Released: 1933-05-04

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

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Sins of Man

as Fritz
Released: 1936-06-19

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

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Mad About Music

as uncredited
Released: 1938-02-27

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

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Bureau of Missing Persons

as Janitor (uncredited)
Released: 1933-09-16

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

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Humanity

as Schmiddy
Released: 1933-03-03

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

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Maybe It's Love

as Ole - the Janitor (uncredited)
Released: 1935-01-12

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

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Murder with Pictures

as Olaf (uncredited)
Released: 1936-09-24

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

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Berlin Correspondent

as Prisoner
Released: 1942-08-17

Dana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months...

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A Dog of Flanders

as Hans
Released: 1935-03-22

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

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No More Women

as Big Pants
Released: 1934-03-03

Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find...

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Everything Happens at Night

as Telegrapher
Released: 1939-12-22

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

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Man of Two Worlds

as Knudson
Released: 1934-01-13

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

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One More Spring

as Man in Elevator
Released: 1935-02-15

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

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Café Metropole

as Maxl Schinner
Released: 1937-04-28

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

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Music in the Air

as Zipfelhuber
Released: 1934-12-13

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

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Dangerously They Live

as Mr. Steiner
Released: 1941-12-24

A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.

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No Other Woman

as Eli Bigavitch
Released: 1933-01-06

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

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Jungle Woman

as George
Released: 1944-06-01

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

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Romance in the Rain

as Slotnick
Released: 1934-08-13

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

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Four Sons

as Kapek
Released: 1940-06-14

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

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We're Only Human

as William Anderson
Released: 1935-12-27

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

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The Crooked Circle

as Old Dan
Released: 1932-09-25

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

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Age of Indiscretion

as Briggs
Released: 1935-05-10

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

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The Spectacle Maker

as Hans Schmidt
Released: 1934-09-20

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

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Oil for the Lamps of China

as Dr. Jorgen
Released: 1935-06-08

An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.

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It Could Happen to You

as Clavish
Released: 1937-06-28

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

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The Leathernecks Have Landed

as Schooner Captain
Released: 1936-02-17

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

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Rhythm on the River

as Pawnbroker
Released: 1940-08-28

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

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Metropolitan

as Weidel
Released: 1935-10-17

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

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Hidden Power

as Doctor
Released: 1939-09-07

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

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Let 'em Have It

as Heinrich Henkel
Released: 1935-05-15

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

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Ski Patrol

as Jakob Sorenson - Old Villager
Released: 1940-05-09

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

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Never Say Die

as The Mayor
Released: 1939-03-08

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

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Haunted House

as Olaf Jensen
Released: 1940-07-21

Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.

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When Love Is Young

as Anton Werner
Released: 1937-03-26

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

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No Greater Glory

as Watchman
Released: 1934-03-30

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

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Father's Son

as Lunk Nelson
Released: 1941-02-12

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

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Secrets of the French Police

as Anton Dorain
Released: 1932-12-02

A burglar is recruited by the French Surete to help find his kidnapped girlfriend, who has been...

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Bomber's Moon

as Johann
Released: 1943-08-05

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

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The Man from Yesterday

as Swiss Terrace Waiter
Released: 1932-06-24

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

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Forged Passport

as Mr. Nelson
Released: 1939-04-23

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

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A Man of Sentiment

as Herman Heupelkossel
Released: 1933-09-15

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

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Henry Aldrich for President

as School Janitor
Released: 1941-10-17

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

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Disney Sing-Along Songs: Colors of the Wind

as (voice) (archive footage)
Released: 1995-07-21

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

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Ladies Crave Excitement

as Lars Swenson
Released: 1935-06-21

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

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Something for the Birds

as Leo Fischer
Released: 1952-09-30

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

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Hitch Hike Lady

as Farmer
Released: 1935-12-28

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

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3 Is a Family

as Bellboy
Released: 1944-11-23

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

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The Trial of Vivienne Ware

as Axel Nordstrom
Released: 1932-05-01

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

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The Belle of New York

as uncredited
Released: 1919-03-26

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

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Come Back, Miss Pipps

as Mr. Swenson (uncredited)
Released: 1941-10-24

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

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