Germán Cobos
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 7, 1927
- Died
- January 12, 2015 (aged 87)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
Limoncello
Movie · as Joe
C'est la vie, camarade!
Movie · as Delgado
No Big Deal
Movie · as Gabo
Aquí no hay quien viva
TV · as Manolo · 1 ep
Arrayán
TV · as Arturo · 130 eps
Linked
Movie · as Sr. Guerrero
Más allá del jardín
Movie · as Alvaro Larra
Mirada líquida
Movie
Mouth to Mouth
Movie · as Padre de Luci
Curro Jiménez, the Return of a Legend
TV · as Don Benjamín · 1 ep
Love at First Sight
TV · as L'Homme à la Cornemuse · 1 ep
La viuda del capitán Estrada
Movie · as Mondéjar
El crimen de Don Benito
Movie
El día que nací yo
Movie · as Rafael
La taberna fantástica
Movie
Against the Wind
Movie · as Antonio
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
Movie · as «Продюсер»
Scent of a Crime
Movie · as Amaro
Tu novia está loca
Movie · as Padre de Amaia
Law of Desire
Movie · as El Cura
I picari
Movie · as Theatrical impresario
Proceso a Mariana Pineda
TV · as Juez Pedrosa · 5 eps
Too Much for Galvez
Movie · as El editor
Alone in the Small Hours
Movie · as Ramón Vidal
Hidden Pleasures
Movie · as Ignacio
Foul Play
Movie · as Emigrante
Cria!
Movie · as Nicolás
The Waitresses
Movie · as Enrique
The Lively Vampires of Vögel
Movie · as Carlo
Sexy Cat
Movie · as Mike Cash
Marianela
Movie · as D. Carlos
Reverend's Colt
Movie · as Fred Smith
Lola la Piconera
Movie · as Capitán Gustavo Lefevre
Matrimonios separados
Movie · as Daniel
¡Se armó el belén!
Movie · as Don José
Quinto: Fighting Proud
Movie · as Sucre
The Happy Sixties
Movie · as Pablo
Blood Calls to Blood
Movie · as Padre
El Secreto del capitán O'Hara
Movie · as Richard O'Hara
Blueprint for a Massacre
Movie · as Danny O'Connor / Agent Z-55
L'uomo dal pugno d'oro
Movie · as Joe Callaghan
Hand of the Assassin
Movie · as Carlos
Wanted
Movie · as Martin Heywood
Lola Colt
Movie · as Larry/El Diablo
El halcón de Castilla
Movie · as Don Diego de Mendoza
Fistful of Diamonds
Movie · as Clark
Camerino sin biombo
Movie
Algunas lecciones de amor
Movie · as Presentador / Juan
Brillante Porvenir
Movie · as Antonio
Julieta engaña a Romeo
Movie · as Roberto
Destino: Barajas
Movie
Desperate Mission
Movie · as Robert Manning / Danny O'Connor / Agent Z-55
Massacre at Fort Grant
Movie · as Paul Driscoll
Pariahs of Glory
Movie · as Albertini
The Castilian
Movie · as Abderramán
La revoltosa
Movie · as Felipe
Los abanderados de la Providencia
Movie
Forty Years of Dating
Movie · as Valentín Pereira
The Lovely Lola
Movie · as Federico
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
Movie · as Il colonnello Chamonis
Abuelita Charlestón
Movie · as Pierre
Héroes de blanco
Movie · as Saúl Kauffman
Taxi for Tobruk
Movie · as Jean Ramirez
At Five in the Afternoon
Movie · as José Álvarez
El amor empieza en sábado
Movie · as Carlos
Despedida de soltero
Movie · as Miguel
Un paso al frente
Movie · as Rafael Aguirre
Ama Rosa
Movie · as Javier
The Devil Made a Woman
Movie · as Lucas
Soledad
Movie · as Paco
El ángel está en la cumbre
Movie · as Carlos Valle
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Movie · as Avvocato Otello Bellomo
Female Three Times
Movie · as Ugo
Susanna tutta panna
Movie · as Alberto
Roberto el diablo
Movie · as Roberto
The Star of Africa
Movie
Saranno uomini
Movie
The Sword and the Cross
Movie · as Tullius
La vida es maravillosa
Movie · as Eugenio Jalón
Retorno a la verdad
Movie · as Carlos
Cuerda de presos
Movie · as Silvestre
The Other Life of Captain Contreras
Movie · as Pedro
Mañana cuando amanezca
Movie
Marta
Movie
La patrulla
Movie · as Calatayud
Judas' Kiss
Movie · as Andrés (no acreditado)
Vuelo 971
Movie · as Primer oficial
La Leona de Castilla
Movie