
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.
87 acting credits
Acting · 87

No One Could Live Here
2003

Love at First Sight
1992

Arrayán
2001

Curro Jiménez, the Return of a Legend
1995

Proceso a Mariana Pineda
1984

Law of Desire
1987

Wanted
1967

Susanna tutta panna
1957

Cria!
1976

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
1957

Reverend's Colt
1970

Pariahs of Glory
1964

Against the Wind
1990

The Castilian
1963

Mouth to Mouth
1995

Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
1990

Taxi for Tobruk
1961

Scent of a Crime
1988

I picari
1987

Foul Play
1977

Hidden Pleasures
1977

Lola Colt
1967

Hand of the Assassin
1967

The Sword and the Cross
1956

Tu novia está loca
1988

The Lively Vampires of Vögel
1975

La viuda del capitán Estrada
1991

Female Three Times
1957

La Leona de Castilla
1951

Soledad
1959

The Devil Made a Woman
1959

El día que nací yo
1991

Cuerda de presos
1956

El Secreto del capitán O'Hara
1968

The Star of Africa
1957

At Five in the Afternoon
1961

El halcón de Castilla
1967

Linked
1996

Massacre at Fort Grant
1964

Un paso al frente
1960

Alone in the Small Hours
1978

The Waitresses
1976

Algunas lecciones de amor
1966

Sexy Cat
1973

¡Se armó el belén!
1969

Quinto: Fighting Proud
1969

Blood Calls to Blood
1968

Más allá del jardín
1996

Ama Rosa
1960

La vida es maravillosa
1956

Desperate Mission
1965

La revoltosa
1963

No Big Deal
2003

I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
1962
C'est la vie, camarade!
2005

Marianela
1972

Lola la Piconera
1970
Limoncello
2007

Julieta engaña a Romeo
1965

El amor empieza en sábado
1961

The Happy Sixties
1969

The Other Life of Captain Contreras
1955

La patrulla
1954

The Lovely Lola
1962

Vuelo 971
1953

Fistful of Diamonds
1967

Matrimonios separados
1969

Abuelita Charlestón
1962

Too Much for Galvez
1981

Mirada líquida
1996

La taberna fantástica
1991

Retorno a la verdad
1956

Destino: Barajas
1965

Blueprint for a Massacre
1967

Judas' Kiss
1954

Despedida de soltero
1961

Brillante Porvenir
1965

Forty Years of Dating
1963

El crimen de Don Benito
1991

El ángel está en la cumbre
1958

Marta
1955

Mañana cuando amanezca
1955

Héroes de blanco
1962

Roberto el diablo
1957

L'uomo dal pugno d'oro
1967

Los abanderados de la Providencia
1963

Camerino sin biombo
1967