
Germán Cobos
Known for ActingBorn 1927-07-07Died 2015-01-12Sevilla, 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.Read more
Movies & web series
C'est la vie, camarade!
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C'est la vie, camarade!
2005 · Movie
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La taberna fantástica
1991 · Movie
★ 10.0View details →
Too Much for Galvez
1981 · Movie
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The Happy Sixties
1969 · Movie
★ 10.0View details →
Fistful of Diamonds
1967 · Movie
★ 10.0View details →
The Castilian
1963 · Movie
★ 10.0View details →
Los abanderados de la Providencia
1963 · Movie
★ 10.0View details →
El ángel está en la cumbre
1958 · Movie
★ 9.5View details →
Judas' Kiss
1954 · Movie
★ 9.3View details →
Forty Years of Dating
1963 · Movie
★ 9.0View details →
Blueprint for a Massacre
1967 · Movie
★ 9.0View details →
Algunas lecciones de amor
1966 · Movie
★ 9.0View details →
Destino: Barajas
1965 · Movie
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La vida es maravillosa
1956 · Movie
★ 8.4View details →
No One Could Live Here
2003 · Series
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Camerino sin biombo
1967 · Movie
★ 8.0View details →
Abuelita Charlestón
1962 · Movie
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Despedida de soltero
1961 · Movie
★ 8.0View details →
Female Three Times
1957 · Movie
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Roberto el diablo
1957 · Movie
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The Other Life of Captain Contreras
1955 · Movie
★ 7.7View details →
Hand of the Assassin
1967 · Movie
★ 7.6View details →
Marianela
1972 · Movie
★ 7.5View details →
Cria!
1976 · Movie
★ 7.5View details →
Ama Rosa
1960 · Movie
★ 7.3View details →
Lola la Piconera
1970 · Movie
★ 7.5View details →
Vuelo 971
1953 · Movie
★ 7.1View details →
Law of Desire
1987 · Movie
★ 7.1View details →
Taxi for Tobruk
1961 · Movie
★ 6.8View details →
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
1990 · Movie
★ 7.0View details →
Julieta engaña a Romeo
1965 · Movie
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Desperate Mission
1965 · Movie
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Héroes de blanco
1962 · Movie
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Un paso al frente
1960 · Movie
★ 7.0View details →
Retorno a la verdad
1956 · Movie
★ 6.5View details →
Love at First Sight
1992 · Series
★ 6.4View details →
Arrayán
2001 · Series
★ 6.7View details →
El amor empieza en sábado
1961 · Movie
★ 6.7View details →
The Star of Africa
1957 · Movie
★ 6.7View details →
La patrulla
1954 · Movie
★ 6.5View details →
Matrimonios separados
1969 · Movie
★ 6.6View details →
Cuerda de presos
1956 · Movie
★ 6.5View details →
The Lovely Lola
1962 · Movie
★ 6.4View details →
The Devil Made a Woman
1959 · Movie
★ 6.2View details →
Alone in the Small Hours
1978 · Movie
★ 6.2View details →
¡Se armó el belén!
1969 · Movie
★ 6.0View details →
Tu novia está loca
1988 · Movie
★ 6.2View details →
Brillante Porvenir
1965 · Movie