
Germán Cobos
Acting
🎂 1927-07-07
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.
Cast credits(87)

Manolo
2003

Don Benjamín
1995

Arturo
2001
L'Homme à la Cornemuse
1992

Juez Pedrosa
1984

El Cura
1987

«Продюсер»
1990

Nicolás
1976

Martin Heywood
1967

Emigrante
1977

Avvocato Otello Bellomo
1957

Alberto
1957

Lucas
1959

Theatrical impresario
1987

1951

Abderramán
1963

Don José
1969

Ugo
1957

Federico
1962

Tullius
1956

Larry/El Diablo
1967

Pierre
1962

Jean Ramirez
1961

Miguel
1961

Carlos
1967

Roberto
1965

Alvaro Larra
1996

Richard O'Hara
1968

Andrés (no acreditado)
1954

1957

Padre de Luci
1995

Javier
1960

Amaro
1988

Fred Smith
1970

Carlo
1975

José Álvarez
1961

Primer oficial
1953

Robert Manning / Danny O'Connor / Agent Z-55
1965

Danny O'Connor / Agent Z-55
1967

Roberto
1957

Ignacio
1977

Ramón Vidal
1978

1965

Antonio
1965

Antonio
1990

Padre
1968

D. Carlos
1972

Padre de Amaia
1988

Albertini
1964

Capitán Gustavo Lefevre
1970

Paul Driscoll
1964

Valentín Pereira
1963

Mike Cash
1973

Sucre
1969

Il colonnello Chamonis
1962

Felipe
1963

Paco
1959

Gabo
2003

Rafael
1991

Don Diego de Mendoza
1967

Clark
1967

Enrique
1976

Carlos
1961

Pablo
1969

1963

1957
Joe
2007

Daniel
1969

Pedro
1955

Joe Callaghan
1967

Eugenio Jalón
1956

Saúl Kauffman
1962

1991

1955

Sr. Guerrero
1996

1996

Silvestre
1956

El editor
1981

Presentador / Juan
1966

Carlos Valle
1958

Mondéjar
1991

Rafael Aguirre
1960

Calatayud
1954

1967
Delgado
2005

1991

Carlos
1956