Germán Cobos

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

87

Gender

Male

Birthday

1927-07-07

Day of death

2015-01-12 (87 years old)

Place of Birth

Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain

Germán Cobos

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.

Known For

  • Arrayán

    Arrayán

  • No One Could Live Here

    No One Could Live Here

  • Los abanderados de la Providencia

    Los abanderados de la Providencia

  • Marianela

    Marianela

  • No Big Deal

    No Big Deal

  • Limoncello

    Limoncello

  • The Castilian

    The Castilian

  • Against the Wind

    Against the Wind

  • All Cream Susanna

    All Cream Susanna

  • The Lively Vampires of Vögel

    The Lively Vampires of Vögel

  • Blueprint for a Massacre

    Blueprint for a Massacre

  • The Waitresses

    The Waitresses

  • The Happy Sixties

    The Happy Sixties

  • Massacre at Fort Grant

    Massacre at Fort Grant

  • Love at First Sight

    Love at First Sight

  • Matrimonios separados

    Matrimonios separados

  • Reverend's Colt

    Reverend's Colt

  • Judas' Kiss

    Judas' Kiss

  • Héroes de blanco

    Héroes de blanco

  • Mañana cuando amanezca

    Mañana cuando amanezca

  • Ama Rosa

    Ama Rosa

  • Spanish Actress for Russian Minister

    Spanish Actress for Russian Minister

  • Hidden Pleasures

    Hidden Pleasures

  • La patrulla

    La patrulla

  • Der Stern von Afrika

    Der Stern von Afrika

  • Alone in the Small Hours

    Alone in the Small Hours

  • El halcón de Castilla

    El halcón de Castilla

  • Vuelo 971

    Vuelo 971

  • Cuerda de presos

    Cuerda de presos

  • La revoltosa

    La revoltosa

  • I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo

    I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo

  • Too Much for Galvez

    Too Much for Galvez

  • Roberto el diablo

    Roberto el diablo

  • Un paso al frente

    Un paso al frente

  • Quinto: Fighting Proud

    Quinto: Fighting Proud

  • Pariahs of Glory

    Pariahs of Glory

  • Cria!

    Cria!

  • Wanted

    Wanted

  • Law of Desire

    Law of Desire

  • Female Three Times

    Female Three Times

  • The Other Life of Captain Contreras

    The Other Life of Captain Contreras

  • ¡Se armó el belén!

    ¡Se armó el belén!

  • La Leona de Castilla

    La Leona de Castilla

  • Carmen from Ronda

    Carmen from Ronda

  • Algunas lecciones de amor

    Algunas lecciones de amor

  • Curro Jiménez, the Return of a Legend

    Curro Jiménez, the Return of a Legend

  • Desperate Mission

    Desperate Mission

  • Foul Play

    Foul Play

  • Linked

    Linked

  • Lola Colt

    Lola Colt

  • El día que nací yo

    El día que nací yo

  • I picari

    I picari

  • The Sword and the Cross

    The Sword and the Cross

  • The Lovely Lola

    The Lovely Lola

  • La viuda del capitán Estrada

    La viuda del capitán Estrada

  • Mirada líquida

    Mirada líquida

  • La vida es maravillosa

    La vida es maravillosa

  • Más allá del jardín

    Más allá del jardín

  • El ángel está en la cumbre

    El ángel está en la cumbre

  • Proceso a Mariana Pineda

    Proceso a Mariana Pineda

  • Scent of a Crime

    Scent of a Crime

  • Despedida de soltero

    Despedida de soltero

  • Lola la Piconera

    Lola la Piconera

  • Abuelita Charlestón

    Abuelita Charlestón

  • Taxi for Tobruk

    Taxi for Tobruk

  • Soledad

    Soledad

  • Blood Calls to Blood

    Blood Calls to Blood

  • Hand of the Assassin

    Hand of the Assassin

  • Forty Years of Dating

    Forty Years of Dating

  • Tu novia está loca

    Tu novia está loca

  • Destino: Barajas

    Destino: Barajas

  • Brillante Porvenir

    Brillante Porvenir

  • El amor empieza en sábado

    El amor empieza en sábado

  • La taberna fantástica

    La taberna fantástica

  • El crimen de Don Benito

    El crimen de Don Benito

  • Julieta engaña a Romeo

    Julieta engaña a Romeo

  • At Five in the Afternoon

    At Five in the Afternoon

  • Camerino sin biombo

    Camerino sin biombo

  • Saranno uomini

    Saranno uomini

  • Fistful of Diamonds

    Fistful of Diamonds

  • Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

    Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor

  • El Secreto del capitán O'Hara

    El Secreto del capitán O'Hara

  • Sexy Cat

    Sexy Cat

  • Mouth to Mouth

    Mouth to Mouth

  • L'uomo dal pugno d'oro

    L'uomo dal pugno d'oro

  • Retorno a la verdad

    Retorno a la verdad

  • C'est la vie, camarade!

    C'est la vie, camarade!