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Germán Cobos
Actor
Born July 7, 1927Died January 12, 2015 (87 years)
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.
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.
Known For
Filmography
| 2003 | Aquí no hay quien viva (TV Series) · as Manolo |
| 2003 | No Big Deal · as Gabo |
| 2001 | Arrayán (TV Series) · as Arturo |
| 1998 | Entre Naranjos (TV Series) · as Ramón Brull |
| 1996 | Más allá del jardín · as Alvaro Larra |
| 1996 | |
| 1996 | Todos los Hombres Sois Iguales (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1995 | Mouth to Mouth · as Padre De Luci |
| 1995 | Curro Jiménez: El regreso de una leyenda (TV Series) · as Don Benjamín |
| 1995 | Passover · as Don Ramon |
| 1993 | Tres palabras · as Gordillo |
| 1993 | Truhanes (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1993 | Los ladrones van a la oficina (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1992 | Un paraguas para tres · as Padre De Daniel |
| 1991 | Réquiem por Granada (TV Series) · as Abul Kazim |
| 1991 | La viuda del capitán Estrada · as Mondéjar |
| 1991 | |
| 1990 | Against the Wind · as Antonio |
| 1990 | Ispanskaya aktrisa dlya russkogo ministra · as «продюсер» |
| 1989 | Brigada Central (TV Series) · as General |
| 1988 | Scent of a Crime · as Amaro |
| 1988 | Tu novia está loca · as Padre De Amaia |
| 1987 | The Rogues · as Theatrical Impresario |
| 1987 | Lorca: Death of a Poet (TV Series) · as Ignacio Sánchez Mejías |
| 1987 | Law of Desire · as El Cura |
| 1985 | La huella del crimen (TV Series) · as López Oyarzábal |
| 1984 | Proceso a Mariana Pineda (TV Series) · as Juez Pedrosa (5 Episodes, 1984) |
| 1982 | La Máscara Negra (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1981 | Demasiado para Gálvez · as El Editor |
| 1978 | Alone in the Dark · as Ramón Vidal |
| 1977 | Hidden Pleasures · as Ignacio |
| 1977 | Foul Play · as Emigrante |
| 1976 | Las camareras · as Enrique |
| 1976 | Cría Cuervos · as Nicolás |
| 1976 | Songs for After a War · as Cast |
| 1975 | Las alegres vampiras de Vögel · as Carlo |
| 1973 | Sexy Cat · as Mike Cash |
| 1972 | Marianela · as D. Carlos |
| 1970 | Reverend's Colt · as Fred Smith |
| 1969 | ¡¡Se armó el belén!! · as Don José |
| 1969 | Matrimonios separados · as Daniel |
| 1969 | Quinto: Fighting Proud · as Sucre |
| 1968 | Sangue chiama sangue · as Padre |
| 1967 | El halcón de Castilla · as Don Diego De Mendoza |
| 1967 | Black Tigress · as Larry/el Diablo |
| 1967 | El rostro del asesino · as Carlos |
| 1967 | Fistful of Diamonds · as Clark |
| 1967 | Wanted · as Martin Heywood |
| 1967 | Blueprint for a Massacre · as Danny O'connor / Agent Z-55 |
| 1966 | Secret of Captain O'Hara · as Richard O'hara |
| 1966 | Algunas lecciones de amor · as Presentador / Juan |
| 1965 | Desperate Mission · as Robert Manning / Danny O'connor / Agent Z-55 |
| 1965 | Estudio 1 (TV Series) · as Antonio |
| 1965 | Julieta engaña a Romeo · as Roberto |
| 1965 | Brillante porvenir · as Antonio |
| 1964 | Doomed Fort · as Paul Driscoll |
| 1964 | Apache Fury · as Cast |
| 1964 | Pariahs of Glory · as Albertini |
| 1963 | Novela (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1963 | La revoltosa · as Felipe |
| 1963 | The Castilian · as Abderramán |
| 1962 | La bella Lola · as Federico |
| 1962 | I tromboni di Fra Diavolo · as Il Colonnello Chamonis |
| 1961 | Taxi for Tobruk · as Jean Ramirez |
| 1960 | At Five in the Afternoon · as José Álvarez |
| 1960 | One Step Forward · as Rafael Aguirre |
| 1960 | Ama Rosa · as Javier |
| 1959 | The Devil Made a Woman · as Lucas |
| 1957 | The Lady Doctor · as Avvocato Otello Bellomo |
| 1957 | |
| 1957 | Female Three Times · as Ugo |
| 1957 | Susanna tutta panna · as Alberto |
| 1956 | The Sword and the Cross · as Tullius |
| 1956 | Cuerda de presos · as Silvestre |
| 1955 | |
| 1954 | Judas' Kiss · as Andrés (no Acreditado) |
| 1951 |