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