Christian Rub

Rub's parents, Otto and Paula, were an actor and a "stage beauty", respectively.^[1] His sister, Marianne, performed on radio.^[1] Rub was born in Graz,^[2] in Austria-Hungary.

Rub became a comedian as a boy in Germany.^[3] 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."^[1] He also played Ernest Rodel in Spring Awakening. ^[4]

He starred in two-reel comedies in Hollywood in the early 1920s.^[3] His first appearance was in the 1919 movie The Belle of New York.^{[citation needed]} He ventured into drama on stage with a role in a production of Grand Hotel in Los Angeles in the early 1930s.^[3]

Rub provided the voice of Geppetto in the 1940 animated Disney film Pinocchio, as well as voices of kindly old men for MGM, Fox and Warner Bros. cartoons.^[5] Rub was not the original voice for Geppetto. He replaced the first actor, whose voice Walt Disney considered to be too harsh.^[6]

Rub's last movie role was in 1952's Something for the Birds. He died in Santa Barbara, California one day after his 70th birthday.^{[citation needed]}