Bob Christo Wiki, Age, Death, Wife, Children, Family, Biography & More – FilmyVoice

Bob Christo (1938-2011) was an Australian-Indian civil engineer and actor. Bob additionally labored as an Official Director of Well being and Health at Sanjay Khan’s resort in Bangalore. He has acted in over 200 movies and tv serials in Bollywood, Mollywood, Kollywood and Tollywood, together with movies like Qurbani (1980), Nastik (1983), Mr India (1987) and Gumraah (1993). He’s well-known for bringing the stereotypical international goon to life on display. Bob Christo handed away on 20 March 2011 as a result of rupturing of a left ventricle valve.

Wiki/Biography

Bob Christo was born Robert John Christo in 1938 (age 73 years; on the time of demise) in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Bob accomplished his education and studied theatre in Germany. Earlier than coming to India, Bob travelled the world. First, he completed his civil engineering diploma in Sydney and was part of the Australian military and had an project in Vietnam the place he was in command of a group of mercenaries and constructed bridges. After this, he discovered himself in South Africa. Bob’s work and life took him from Hong Kong to Japan to Seychelles. Being part of the Australian military led him to be within the Particular Air Providers of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In Zimbabwe, Bob learn an article on Parveen Babi in Time Journal which impressed him to fulfill her. He arrived in India ready for his work allow to Muscat due to which he needed to depart Muscat till the allow was processed. As a substitute of leaving, he ended up in Bollywood after he tried to fulfill Parveen Babi, and labored in over 200 movies throughout the movie industries in India.

Bodily Look

Peak (approx.): 6′ 0″

Weight (approx.): 90kg

Hair Color:

Eye Color: Black

Physique Measurements (approx.): Chest: 41 Waist: 38 Biceps: 15

Household

Bob Christo was born right into a Christian household in Sydney, Australia. The household moved to Germany when Bob was 5 years previous.

Mother and father & Siblings

Bob Christo’s father had Greek roots and his mom was German. He had a sister and two brothers named Mike and Helmut.

Spouse & Kids

Bob Christo met his first spouse Helga when he was 20 and had three youngsters together with her together with two daughters, Monique and Nicole. When his spouse handed away in a automotive accident, Bob gave his three youngsters to a buddy and his spouse and went to Saigon the place he helped the South Vietnam military. He then married Nargis Christo in 1981 and had two sons, Darius and Sunil, together with her.

Bob Christo together with his spouse Nargis, sons Darius and Sunil, and daughter-in-law

Relationships/Affairs

In Bob’s autobiography, Flashback: My Life and Instances in Bollywood and Past, he talks concerning the innumerable relationships and affairs he has been in throughout his lifetime. When Bob was within the Philippines, constructing the set for Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now movie, he was in an affair concurrently with Kisa, a Polynesian scholar and a Philippino lady named Maria Antoinette. Maria and Bob had twin daughters collectively and Bob had even promised to marry her. Nonetheless, as a substitute of holding up his promise, he skipped city. He additional confessed to having slept together with his maid Reena in Mumbai, an affair that came about quite a bit earlier than he grew to become an actor.

Faith

Bob Christo follows Christianity.

Profession

Movie

Bob Christo’s first position in a movie was when he was 16 years previous and acted in a German film after he labored as an additional within the Dusseldorf Nationwide Theatre, Germany. He remained within the movie business by placing his civil engineering diploma to make use of, and constructing a jungle palace for Francis Ford Coppola as a part of the set of the movie Apocalypse Now (1979). He discovered himself in Mumbai the place he landed a job as a villain within the Hindi film Abdullah (1980) the place he performed the position of ‘Magician’.

Bob Christo on the poster of Abdullah (1980)

Whereas this was the primary movie he was solid in, different movies have been launched earlier than it, like Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978) and Qurbani (1980). Since then, he appeared in over 200 films in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, and he was all the time solid because the bald, villainous foreigner. He has since acted in movies akin to Kaalia (1981), and the cult traditional Disco Dancer (1982) the place he performed the position of ‘Worldwide Hit Man’.

Bob Christo on the poster of Disco Dancer (1982)

He has additionally acted in Nastik (1983), Haadsa (1983), Insaaf Kaun Karega (1984), Insaaf Foremost Karoonga (1985), Geraftaar (1985) the place he performed the position of Ram, Hiya My Expensive Improper Quantity (1986) which was a Malayalam movie, Kadhal Parisu (1987), a Tamil movie, Mr India (1987) the place he performed Mr Wolcott, one among his hottest roles, the Kannada movie Jayasimha (1987), Toofan (1989), Agneepath (1990), Saugandh (1991), Kalicharan (1998), and eventually, Aman Ke Farishtey (2016) which was his remaining movie.

Bob Christo and Akshay Kumar within the movie Saugandh (1991)

Tv

Whereas Sanjay Khan found him and solid him within the movie Abdullah, Sanjay Khan additionally gave him roles within the tv serials, The Sword of Tipu Sultan (1990) wherein he performed Normal Matthews, and The Nice Maratha (1994), the place he performed the position of Ahmed Shah Abdali, who went on to grow to be an icon among the many present’s viewers. He has additionally appeared in a French tv present named La Nouvelle Malle des Indes (1981), which interprets to The New Trunk of India.

Loss of life

Bob Christo handed away on 20 March 2011 on the age of 73 as a result of a rupture of the left ventricle within the Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, Bangalore, the place he was admitted after struggling a coronary heart assault. Within the hospital, he suffered from one other coronary heart assault which led to his demise.

Info/Trivia

• Bob all the time needed to behave as a hero, however he by no means bought the prospect.

• Bob Christo labored as a yoga teacher from 2000 to 2006, when he stopped as a result of a spinal damage. He blames the damage on the variety of stunts that he needed to carry out whereas filming for films.

• Bob Christo owes his position in Abdullah to his masseuse expertise that he impressed Sanjay Khan with when Bob was working as his bodyguard.

• Bob Christo carried the Time journal that featured Parveen Babi with him till he met her.
  

  The Time journal that includes Parveen Babi that caught Bob Christo’s curiosity

• Most of Bob Christo’s character names have been a variation of his title, akin to Inspector Bob, Terrorist Bob, Commander Bob and so forth.