1927-07-07 ( 97 years old ) in Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain
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.
Movies
Limoncello
2007-05-15
C'est la vie, camarade!
2005-01-04
No Big Deal
2003-03-05
Más allá del jardín
1996-12-20
Mirada líquida
1996-11-29
Linked
1996-11-16
Mouth to Mouth
1995-11-10
El día que nací yo
1991-09-25
La viuda del capitán Estrada
1991-09-06
La taberna fantástica
1991-07-13
El crimen de Don Benito
1991-03-06
Against the Wind
1990-10-10
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
1990-01-25
Scent of a Crime
1988-10-21
Tu novia está loca
1988-01-21
I picari
1987-12-18
Law of Desire
1987-02-07
Too Much for Galvez
1981-10-01
Alone in the Dark
1978-04-03
Hidden Pleasures
1977-04-14
Foul Play
1977-03-11
The Waitresses
1976-11-19
Cria!
1976-06-03
The Lively Vampires of Vögel
1975-11-16
Sexy Cat
1973-05-21
Marianela
1972-02-15
Reverend's Colt
1970-12-24
Lola la Piconera
1970-01-24
¡Se armó el belén!
1969-12-29
Matrimonios separados
1969-12-08
The Happy Sixties
1969-07-30
Quinto: Fighting Proud
1969-06-14
El Secreto del capitán O'Hara
1968-10-22
Blood Calls to Blood
1968-04-06
El halcón de Castilla
1967-10-23
Lola Colt
1967-10-22
Hand of the Assassin
1967-09-01
L'uomo dal pugno d'oro
1967-04-21
Fistful of Diamonds
1967-04-20
Wanted
1967-03-22
Camerino sin biombo
1967-01-16
Blueprint for a Massacre
1967-01-12
Algunas lecciones de amor
1966-07-25
Desperate Mission
1965-11-13
Julieta engaña a Romeo
1965-08-02
Brillante Porvenir
1965-04-05
Destino: Barajas
1965-02-01
Massacre at Fort Grant
1964-12-04
Pariahs of Glory
1964-04-05
La revoltosa
1963-12-09
Forty Years of Dating
1963-10-03
The Castilian
1963-03-07
Los abanderados de la Providencia
1963-01-01
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
1962-10-11
The Lovely Lola
1962-09-06
Héroes de blanco
1962-07-27
Abuelita Charlestón
1962-01-01
Despedida de soltero
1961-11-27
El amor empieza en sábado
1961-11-20
At Five in the Afternoon
1961-05-16
Taxi for Tobruk
1961-05-09
Un paso al frente
1960-10-31
Ama Rosa
1960-04-17
Carmen from Ronda
1959-09-20
Soledad
1959-02-07
El ángel está en la cumbre
1958-01-01
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
1957-12-23
Female Three Times
1957-10-25
Susanna tutta panna
1957-09-20
Der Stern von Afrika
1957-08-13
Saranno uomini
1957-03-23
Roberto el diablo
1957-01-21
The Sword and the Cross
1956-12-13
Cuerda de presos
1956-08-30
Retorno a la verdad
1956-04-30
La vida es maravillosa
1956-02-20
The Other Life of Captain Contreras
1955-06-05
Mañana cuando amanezca
1955-01-01
La patrulla
1954-09-05
Judas' Kiss
1954-02-27
Vuelo 971
1953-12-27
La Leona de Castilla
1951-05-28
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