22 Facts About Geppetto

Geppetto, known as Mister Geppetto, is an Italian fictional character in the 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.

Geppetto is an elderly, impoverished woodcarver and the creator of Pinocchio.

The name Geppetto is a Tuscan diminutive of the name Giuseppe .

Geppetto is introduced when carpenter Mister Antonio finds a talking block of pinewood that he was about to carve into a leg for his table.

Once the puppet has been finished and Geppetto teaches him to walk, Pinocchio runs out the door and away into the town.

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When Geppetto feeds him three pears, Pinocchio promises to go to school.

Geppetto is next seen when Pinocchio believes that the Fairy with Turquoise Hair has died and a pigeon carries him to the seashore, where Geppetto is building a boat to search for Pinocchio .

Pinocchio tries to swim to Geppetto but is washed underwater while Geppetto is swallowed by the Terrible Dogfish.

Geppetto is not seen again until Pinocchio is himself swallowed.

Pinocchio and Geppetto escape the Dogfish and are thence conveyed to shore by a tuna.

When Pinocchio returns home, he finds the shop empty and learns from a letter by the Blue Fairy that Geppetto, venturing out to sea to rescue Pinocchio from Pleasure Island, had been swallowed by Monstro .

Geppetto appeared the following year in the short All Together, made for the Canadian government.

Disney's version of Geppetto has made appearances in Disney's House of Mouse as well as in the Kingdom Hearts series of video games in the "Monstro" world.

Geppetto is the title character in the 2000 made-for-television musical, portrayed by Drew Carey.

At first, Geppetto is happy that his wish came true, but runs into problems with Pinocchio asking persistent questions when trying to get to sleep, wandering off and getting into mischief when introducing him to the townspeople of Villagio, lying, and not interested in being a toymaker.

The next day, Geppetto sends Pinocchio off to school, telling him to just act like all of the other children and he'll be alright.

When Geppetto arrives after the show, Stromboli says Pinocchio left, claiming that he wanted to see the world, only to find Pinocchio running off to Pleasure Island and they both set out to find him.

Along the way, Geppetto meets a magician named Lezarno and visits the town of Idylia where Professor Buonragazzo and his son make perfectly obedient children for any family that wants one.

Geppetto, keeping up with the ship using a tiny fishing boat, suddenly gets swallowed by a monstrous whale where Pinocchio tells him that after he jumped in the water to save him, the donkey curse washed away and he became human again.

Geppetto offers his entire shop in exchange, only for Stromboli to kidnap Pinocchio and Geppetto pleads and begs to the Blue Fairy, who can no longer help him, to grant him one last wish.

Geppetto is a major villain in the Fables comic series written by Bill Willingham and published by DC Comics.

Geppetto'sactions are responsible for the entire premise of the comic book, in that he is the being known as "The Adversary" who masterminded the conquest of the Fable homelands, forcing the Fables to flee into the mundane world.