
Germán Cobos
Born July 7, 1927 · Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain
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.
Notable Appearances
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I picari

Against the Wind

Scent of a Crime

The Devil Made a Woman

The Castilian

Julieta engaña a Romeo

El crimen de Don Benito

El halcón de Castilla

¡Se armó el belén!

The Star of Africa

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

Tu novia está loca

El amor empieza en sábado

El Secreto del capitán O'Hara

Pariahs of Glory

Más allá del jardín

Algunas lecciones de amor

Mouth to Mouth

Hand of the Assassin

Fistful of Diamonds

Wanted

Brillante Porvenir

Blueprint for a Massacre

Alone in the Small Hours

Abuelita Charlestón

Linked

Destino: Barajas

El día que nací yo

Susanna tutta panna

Sexy Cat

I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo

La Leona de Castilla

Matrimonios separados

The Sword and the Cross

Soledad

Forty Years of Dating

Un paso al frente

Marta

Hidden Pleasures

The Other Life of Captain Contreras

Desperate Mission

Judas' Kiss

La viuda del capitán Estrada

At Five in the Afternoon

The Lovely Lola

Foul Play

Lola Colt

The Lively Vampires of Vögel

Reverend's Colt

Lola la Piconera

Vuelo 971

Female Three Times

La vida es maravillosa

No Big Deal

La taberna fantástica

Retorno a la verdad

Los abanderados de la Providencia

Spanish Actress for Russian Minister

Ama Rosa

Massacre at Fort Grant

Quinto: Fighting Proud

L'uomo dal pugno d'oro

El ángel está en la cumbre

Héroes de blanco

Marianela

Blood Calls to Blood

Cuerda de presos

La revoltosa

La patrulla

Despedida de soltero

Too Much for Galvez

Roberto el diablo

Camerino sin biombo

Mañana cuando amanezca

The Waitresses

The Happy Sixties








