Germán Cobos

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Born: July 7, 1927 – January 12, 2015
From: Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain

Biography

Germán Sánchez Hernández-Cobos (7 July 1927 – 12 January 2015) was a prolific Spanish actor in a variety of European films. Son of the stage actor Fernando Cobos, he spent part of his childhood in San Sebastian. He began studying Architecture and in 1949 he joined the Teatro Español Universitario (TEU), when he had already developed a vocation for acting. After moving to Madrid, where he enrolled in the School of Dramatic Art and the Official School of Cinematography, he made his first screen role in 1951, in Juan de Orduña's film La leona de Castilla. Shortly afterwards he was hired as a young leading man in the comedy company of Lilí Murati, a Hungarian actress who had settled in Spain. He had successes in the theatre, both in comedies such as Tovarich and Una noche en su casa, señora, as well as in dramatic pieces, such as La muerte de Dantón. Despite this happy period as a stage actor, his true projection during the 1950s and 1960s was in the cinema, where he played tough leading man roles. His extensive filmography includes nearly a hundred films. After appearing in Rafael J. Salvia's Flight 971 in 1953, he subsequently made films such as El beso de Judas, La patrulla, La otra vida del Capitán Contreras and Cuerda de presos, directed by Rafael Gil and Pedro Lazaga. From 1955 onwards he spent a few years in Italy, where he appeared in Esclavas de Cartago and Susana pura nata and other commercial films. Back in Spain he played Sara Montiel's leading man in Carmen la de Ronda, directed by Tulio Demichelli in 1959. The following year he made a melodrama, Ama Rosa, by León Klimowsky, alongside Imperio Argentina. His stage appearances were more sparse. In the 1960s he starred in Los derechos de la mujer, then the comedy Guapo, libre y español and, from the 1980s onwards, Del rey Ordás y sus infamias, La amante de su señoría and La marquesa Rosalinda. Among the rest of his extensive filmography, the most notable are Un taxi para Tobruck, an important co-production that paired him with Hardy Kruger, Lino Ventura and Charles Aznavour, also filmed in 1960, as well as A las cinco de la tarde, by J. A. Bardem; La bella Lola, by Alfonso Balcázar, again as a partner to Sara Montiel; El valle de las espadas, by Javier Setó, both from 1962; La revoltosa, by José Díaz Morales (1963); Las Vegas, 500 millones, by Isasi-Isasmendi (1968); Marianela, by Angelino Fons (1972); Cría cuervos, by Carlos Saura (1975); El puente, by Bardem (1976); Solos en la madrugada, by José Luis Garci (1977); La ley del deseo, by Pedro Almodóvar (1987); El aire de un crimen, by I. Isasmendi (1987); Un paraguas para tres, by Felipe Vega (1992) and Boca a boca, by Manuel Gómez Pereira (1995). He spent some seasons retired, running a hospitality business in La Granja de San Ildefonso (Segovia). On television he participated in 1995 in the series Villarriba y Villabajo.

Works

82 films

El Secreto del capitán O'Hara

19686.0

Law of Desire

19877.1

El crimen de Don Benito

19914.4

Cria!

19767.5

I picari

19875.5

Julieta engaña a Romeo

19657.0

Brillante Porvenir

19656.2

Taxi for Tobruk

19617.1

Destino: Barajas

19659.0

Abuelita Charlestón

19628.0

Soledad

19595.8

Wanted

19675.9

La viuda del capitán Estrada

19913.7

Lola la Piconera

19707.3

Against the Wind

19904.2

Hand of the Assassin

19677.7

The Sword and the Cross

19565.4

Blood Calls to Blood

19685.8

La taberna fantástica

199110.0

Marta

1955

The Castilian

196310.0

Sexy Cat

19735.8

Linked

19965.4

No Big Deal

20034.5

Reverend's Colt

19705.4

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

19575.4

The Star of Africa

19576.7

The Lovely Lola

19626.5

Mouth to Mouth

19955.3

Quinto: Fighting Proud

19695.8

Lola Colt

19675.9

Susanna tutta panna

19576.4

The Devil Made a Woman

19596.4

Marianela

19727.6

Hidden Pleasures

19775.8

Algunas lecciones de amor

19669.0

Más allá del jardín

19965.0

Scent of a Crime

19884.0

Pariahs of Glory

19645.7

Judas' Kiss

19549.5

At Five in the Afternoon

19615.5

El día que nací yo

19914.6

The Lively Vampires of Vögel

19755.0

La revoltosa

19634.7

Massacre at Fort Grant

19643.7

¡Se armó el belén!

19696.2

Foul Play

19775.1

El amor empieza en sábado

19616.7

Un paso al frente

19607.0

Spanish Actress for Russian Minister

19906.8

Too Much for Galvez

198110.0

I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo

19625.8

Matrimonios separados

19696.5

The Happy Sixties

196910.0

Female Three Times

19578.0

The Waitresses

19764.0

Mañana cuando amanezca

19556.0

Blueprint for a Massacre

19679.0

Camerino sin biombo

19678.0

The Other Life of Captain Contreras

19558.0

Cuerda de presos

19566.6

Alone in the Small Hours

19786.2

Tu novia está loca

19886.0

Fistful of Diamonds

196710.0

La patrulla

19546.7

Vuelo 971

19537.5

C'est la vie, camarade!

200510.0

El halcón de Castilla

19676.0

Despedida de soltero

19618.0

Héroes de blanco

19627.0

La Leona de Castilla

19515.8

Limoncello

20073.0

Ama Rosa

19607.5

Roberto el diablo

19578.0

Desperate Mission

19657.0

L'uomo dal pugno d'oro

1967

La vida es maravillosa

19569.0

Forty Years of Dating

19639.3

El ángel está en la cumbre

195810.0

Mirada líquida

19965.5

Los abanderados de la Providencia

196310.0

Retorno a la verdad

19567.0