Germán Cobos
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.
Fotos
Filme (82)
Limoncello
2007 · Joe
C'est la vie, camarade!
2005 · Delgado
No Big Deal
2003 · Gabo
Más allá del jardín
1996 · Alvaro Larra
Mirada líquida
1996
Linked
1996 · Sr. Guerrero
Mouth to Mouth
1995 · Padre de Luci
El día que nací yo
1991 · Rafael
La viuda del capitán Estrada
1991 · Mondéjar
La taberna fantástica
1991
El crimen de Don Benito
1991
Against the Wind
1990 · Antonio
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
1990 · «Продюсер»
Scent of a Crime
1988 · Amaro
Tu novia está loca
1988 · Padre de Amaia
I picari
1987 · Theatrical impresario
Law of Desire
1987 · El Cura
Too Much for Galvez
1981 · El editor
Alone in the Small Hours
1978 · Ramón Vidal
Hidden Pleasures
1977 · Ignacio
Foul Play
1977 · Emigrante
The Waitresses
1976 · Enrique
Cria!
1976 · Nicolás
The Lively Vampires of Vögel
1975 · Carlo
Sexy Cat
1973 · Mike Cash
Marianela
1972 · D. Carlos
Reverend's Colt
1970 · Fred Smith
Lola la Piconera
1970 · Capitán Gustavo Lefevre
¡Se armó el belén!
1969 · Don José
Matrimonios separados
1969 · Daniel
The Happy Sixties
1969 · Pablo
Quinto: Fighting Proud
1969 · Sucre
El Secreto del capitán O'Hara
1968 · Richard O'Hara
Blood Calls to Blood
1968 · Padre
El halcón de Castilla
1967 · Don Diego de Mendoza
Lola Colt
1967 · Larry/El Diablo
Hand of the Assassin
1967 · Carlos
L'uomo dal pugno d'oro
1967 · Joe Callaghan
Fistful of Diamonds
1967 · Clark
Wanted
1967 · Martin Heywood
Camerino sin biombo
1967
Blueprint for a Massacre
1967 · Danny O'Connor / Agent Z-55
Algunas lecciones de amor
1966 · Presentador / Juan
Desperate Mission
1965 · Robert Manning / Danny O'Connor / Agent Z-55
Julieta engaña a Romeo
1965 · Roberto
Brillante Porvenir
1965 · Antonio
Destino: Barajas
1965
Massacre at Fort Grant
1964 · Paul Driscoll
Pariahs of Glory
1964 · Albertini
La revoltosa
1963 · Felipe
Forty Years of Dating
1963 · Valentín Pereira
The Castilian
1963 · Abderramán
Los abanderados de la Providencia
1963
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
1962 · Il colonnello Chamonis
The Lovely Lola
1962 · Federico
Héroes de blanco
1962 · Saúl Kauffman
Abuelita Charlestón
1962 · Pierre
Despedida de soltero
1961 · Miguel
El amor empieza en sábado
1961 · Carlos
At Five in the Afternoon
1961 · José Álvarez
Taxi for Tobruk
1961 · Jean Ramirez
Un paso al frente
1960 · Rafael Aguirre
Ama Rosa
1960 · Javier
The Devil Made a Woman
1959 · Lucas
Soledad
1959 · Paco
El ángel está en la cumbre
1958 · Carlos Valle
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
1957 · Avvocato Otello Bellomo
Female Three Times
1957 · Ugo
Susanna tutta panna
1957 · Alberto
The Star of Africa
1957
Roberto el diablo
1957 · Roberto
The Sword and the Cross
1956 · Tullius
Cuerda de presos
1956 · Silvestre
Retorno a la verdad
1956 · Carlos
La vida es maravillosa
1956 · Eugenio Jalón
The Other Life of Captain Contreras
1955 · Pedro
Marta
1955
Mañana cuando amanezca
1955
La patrulla
1954 · Calatayud
Judas' Kiss
1954 · Andrés (no acreditado)
Vuelo 971
1953 · Primer oficial
La Leona de Castilla
1951
