Career
Born in Sydney, Australia, Christo was a qualified civil engineer from Sydney. Known for his brawny physique and skinheaded look, Bob came to Mumbai whilst awaiting a work permit to work in Muscat. It is there he met actress Parveen Babi who recommended him his first steps into the world of Hindi films.
He received his first break, as a type-casted villain in the Hindi movie Abdullah in 1980. Christo decided to stay in India and appeared in over 200 movies in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. His film career had restricted him to typecasted roles as an atagonist to the main villain, or a British Indian army officer in pre-war related movies.
He had appeared in many of Amitabh Bachchan's hit movies in the 80's and early 90's including Mard, Kaalia, Geraftaar, Agneepath, Toofan, Jaadugar etc. to name a few. Amitabh Bachchan's famous dialogue 'Hum Jahan Khade hote hain line wahin se shuru hoti hai' (The queue starts from where I stand) was actully mouthed first by Bob Christo in the movie. It is only after him Bachchan says his lines.
During later stages of his life, he shifted to Bangalore in early 2000, where he started working as a Yoga instructor and remained inactive from the Hindi movie industry from 2003. Partly due to how little is known about him and partly due to the number of movies in which he has appeared, Bob Christo has a cult following of sorts, with a website dedicated to him at bollybob. On 17 June 2008, Adil Ray officially announced, as part of the BBC Asian Network's Bollywood month, that he was going to search for the legend Bob. However, he was unsuccessful.
The 72-year-old actor died of "rupture of left ventricle free valve" in Bangalore on 20 March 2011. Tributes poured from all over India.
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