Germán Cobos

Also Known As: Kh. Kobos, German Cobos, Germán Sánchez Hernández-Cobos, Herry Cobb, Herman 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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain

Birthday: July 07, 1927

Deathday: January 12, 2015

Adult: No

Gender: Male

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Known For:

Law of Desire
La viuda del capitán Estrada
Taxi for Tobruk
Blueprint for a Massacre
The Sword and the Cross
Mouth to Mouth
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
No Big Deal
Matrimonios separados
Against the Wind
L'uomo dal pugno d'oro
¡Se armó el belén!
Reverend's Colt
The Lovely Lola
Massacre at Fort Grant
Hand of the Assassin
Female Three Times
La vida es maravillosa
Un paso al frente
Scent of a Crime
Wanted
Lola Colt
Tu novia está loca
Brillante Porvenir
Hidden Pleasures
Blood Calls to Blood
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
The Castilian
La revoltosa
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
Carmen from Ronda
El Secreto del capitán O'Hara
Alone in the Dark
La patrulla
The Lively Vampires of Vögel
Quinto: Fighting Proud
Retorno a la verdad
Cria!
Sexy Cat
Linked
Lola la Piconera
El halcón de Castilla
The Happy Sixties
Soledad
Limoncello
Marianela
Pariahs of Glory
Cuerda de presos
Ama Rosa
Susanna tutta panna
The Waitresses
Más allá del jardín
Fistful of Diamonds
Foul Play
C'est la vie, camarade!
At Five in the Afternoon
The Other Life of Captain Contreras
Camerino sin biombo
Roberto el diablo
Too Much for Galvez
Mirada líquida
I picari
Abuelita Charlestón
El amor empieza en sábado
Los abanderados de la Providencia
El crimen de Don Benito
La Leona de Castilla
Vuelo 971
Despedida de soltero
Julieta engaña a Romeo
Der Stern von Afrika
Héroes de blanco
Judas' Kiss
El día que nací yo
Algunas lecciones de amor
Destino: Barajas
Forty Years of Dating
Desperate Mission
El ángel está en la cumbre
Saranno uomini
La taberna fantástica
Mañana cuando amanezca