Christian Rub

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Christian Rub (1920)

Christian Rub (born April 13, 1886 in Graz , † April 14, 1956 in Santa Barbara , California ) was an Austrian - American actor . Between 1919 and 1952 she starred in around 120 films.

Life

Christian Rub was born in Graz as the son of Otto Rub (1856–1942) and Paula Groß , a niece of Bernhard Baumeister . Both he and his sister Marianne Rub (* 1883) have already been used as child actors in the theater. He played in Weimar as "Walter Tell" and in Riga as "little lord" and "Parisian good-for-nothing". In addition, he was hired to play children's roles at the Burgtheater, a special honor, since until then only girls were used for children's roles.

Rub lived in the United States from 1919 at the latest, when he made his film debut in the silent film The Belle of New York at the side of Marion Davies . At first, however, he made only a few films and was mainly seen as a theater actor on American stages, so he appeared on Broadway with other German actors with the play Wo Die Lerche Singt on Broadway between December 1920 and January 1921 . In 1932 he came to Hollywood. He made a total of around 120 films there by 1952, although he only occasionally got beyond minor supporting roles and was often not mentioned in the credits . Because of his accent he was mostly seen in the role of German, Austrian or Scandinavian; often his characters were slightly funny but friendly in nature. Rub had a supporting role as a neighbor of Lionel Barrymore in Frank Capra's Oscar-winning comedy Lebenskünstler and also played a baker in the literary film Heidi alongside child star Shirley Temple .

His best-known role, however, was a speaking role: In Disney 's classic cartoon Pinocchio (1940) Christian Rub lent his voice to the carpenter Geppetto in the original version of the film. Rub also modeled the appearance of Gepetto in the film. From the mid-1940s Rub increasingly withdrew from the acting business, in 1952 he made his last film Something for the Birds . Christian Rub died in California in 1956, one day after his 70th birthday. All that is known about his personal life is that he was married to a woman named Amy.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Place of birth in Eisenberg, the IMDb writes Passau . Graz is also documented by the baptism entry of the Graz Heilig Blut parish, baptismal register XXXV, page 92, no. 151. The day of baptism was May 3, 1886, online
  2. ↑ Christian Rub in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
  3. ↑ Christian Rub in the Internet Movie Database (English) IMDb: Christian Rub; Misselanous Crew, Pinocchio (1940) model: Geppetto, uncredited
personal data
SURNAME Rub, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German child actor and actor in the United States
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1956
Place of death Santa Barbara , California