
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.92 |
Birthday | 1927-07-07 |
Place of Birth | Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain |
Also Known As | Kh. Kobos, German Cobos, Germán Sánchez Hernández-Cobos, Herry Cobb, Herman Cobos, |

1987

Law of Desire
7.183/300
Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring hi...
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1991

La viuda del capitán Estrada
2/1
After the Second World War, the United Nations has declared the blockade of Franco's Spain. In this historical context, for a time little known, lies...
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1961

Taxi for Tobruk
7.1/129
During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
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1967

Blueprint for a Massacre
0/0
A series of incidents involving aircrafts belonging to NATO nations indicates a systematic sabotage.
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1956

The Sword and the Cross
4.8/6
Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up...
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1995

Mouth to Mouth
5.3/26
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1957

Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
5.1/26
The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Bri...
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2003

No Big Deal
4.6/7
Three sons are sent on a journey to trace their father's checkered past.
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1969

Matrimonios separados
4/1
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1990

Against the Wind
4/7
Juan flees Madrid and an incestuous relationship with his sister, Ana, working at a mine on the Andalucian coast. When his friendship with Rosario, a...
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1967

L'uomo dal pugno d'oro
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1969

¡Se armó el belén!
6.3/24
An old priest, who has old ideas, is intended to exercise the apostolate in a neighborhood in the suburbs of Madrid. There the revolutionary climate a...
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1970

Reverend's Colt
5.4/11
Reverend Miller arrives in Tucson where he wants to build a church. But on the very day of his arrival a gang carries out a raid on the bank and the p...
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1962

The Lovely Lola
6.1/7
"La Bella Lola" is a struggling singer trying to make a living for herself and her sister Ana in late 19th Century Spain. Lola is having an affair wit...
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1964

Massacre at Fort Grant
1/2
Story of a group of settlers and how they had to take refuge in a fort when they were attacked by Indians, as told by the only survivor
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1967

Hand of the Assassin
6.5/2
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1957

Female Three Times
7/1
The Russian women's basketball team faces to the American team for the championship of the world, in Rome. Upon arriving at the 'Eternal City', the Ru...
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1956

La vida es maravillosa
0/0
Eugenio Jalon is a young confident and of good character who has never left her village, Segovia, and thinks that life is wonderful.
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1960

Un paso al frente
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Rafael, Miguel and Gabriel are three boys of different social status, who come to the call of the Flags of Hunters Parachute enroll in their ranks. Be...
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1988

Scent of a Crime
4.3/3
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1967

Wanted
5.4/19
A local sheriff is unjustly accused of murder in a small town and forced to flee. He gets rid of his enemies one by one and tries to prove his innocen...
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1967

Lola Colt
4.9/4
A traveling "corps de ballet" is stranded in a small Western town, where the town is being terrorized by an outlaw named El Diablo. In order to hold t...
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1988

Tu novia está loca
4.5/2
Amaya is a modern girl, independent, who runs an advertising gency. The business is doing well and is enmaorada of her boyfriend, a lawyer of lost cau...
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1965

Brillante Porvenir
6/4
Antonio, a young man with a modest job in a small town, leads a monotonous existence until he is transferred to Barcelona to work in an architecture s...
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1977

Hidden Pleasures
6.1/15
Eduardo, a wealthy banker who has a pastime for hiring young street hustlers to keep his bed warm, spots Miguel, an extremely handsome teen who has a...
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1968

Blood Calls to Blood
5/2
In a frontier town between the USA and Mexico, Sancho and his gang assault a monastery, kill a few monks who try to oppose the invasion of the sacred...
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1990

Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
5.7/3
A love story between a mythical Russian minister and an opportunist TV series actress.
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1963

The Castilian
0/0
Also released as Valley of the Swords, this lugubrious US/Spanish co-production features the usual mid-1960s "tax shelter" international cast. Broderi...
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1963

La revoltosa
4/5
Mari Pepa, a beautiful laundress of Madrid, and Felipe, a carpenter, are in love but they are always quarreling over trifles. However, she must marry...
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1962

I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
5.8/4
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1959

Carmen from Ronda
5.9/7
Antonio is the leader of an underground armed group fighting in the village of Ronda against Napoleon's troops which have imposed French rule in 1808...
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1968

El Secreto del capitán O'Hara
5/2
A court-martialed soldier saves a fort and the major who had dishonestly testified against him from an Indian attack.
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1978

Alone in the Dark
5.7/9
Jose, a journalist and radio broadcaster, runs a daily program under the title 'Alone in the wee hours' ('Solos en la madrugada'), which has garnered...
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1954

La patrulla
6.5/2
Madrid, 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Five infantry soldiers of the victorious side take a photograph of themselves somewhere in the defe...
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1975

The Lively Vampires of Vögel
4.3/3
The town of Vögel, in Transylvania, stands under the ruins of the old castle where the vampire lord tortured his prisoners and drank their blood. A gr...
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1969

Quinto: Fighting Proud
5.5/2
A gang of outlaws gather at a desert saloon after robbing a bank. However, the loot is missing and paranoia sets in, as the outlaws start knocking ea...
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Quinto: Fighting Proud

1956

Retorno a la verdad
0/0
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1976

Cria!
7.6/245
Ana, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the death of her mother.
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1973

Sexy Cat
6.1/10
A movie crew shooting a film featuring a comic-strip hero named The Sexy Cat finds itself stalked by a serial killer who begins murdering the cast and...
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1996

Linked
5/4
Antonio and Concha, a couple who are constantly fighting about money, win the Christmas Lottery first prize. Concha, who is very bossy, starts making...
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1970

Lola la Piconera
6/2
During the Napoleonic era, when Napoleon's army tried to complete the conquest of Spain and headed towards Cádiz, they met a cantaora from Cádiz (Rocí...
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1967

El halcón de Castilla
0/0
Adventure film of Spanish production that follows point by point the parameters set by other literary characters, such as "El Zorro" or "El Coyote". J...
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1969

The Happy Sixties
0/0
Monica, a wife and mother, is dissatisfied with his routine, conventional life. Her husband, Pablo, decides that the best thing for her and her childr...
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1959

Soledad
5/3
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2007

Limoncello
3/1
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1972

Marianela
7.4/14
Marianela is a poor girl with a disfigured face who works as Pablo's guide, a blind young man from a wealthy family. Pablo falls in love with Marianel...
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1964

Pariahs of Glory
5/2
During World War II a young Frenchmen sees his brother killed in Alsace by a German officer. He vows revenge on all Germans, but after the War he is c...
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1956

Cuerda de presos
6.2/6
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1960

Ama Rosa
6/1
Rosa gives birth to a child who, by circumstances of life, is given for adoption to a wealthy family who lost theirs during childbirth. Soon, Rosa wil...
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1957

Susanna tutta panna
5.8/4
A young woman gets closely watched by her jealous fiance while she is trying to deliver cakes to customers' houses.
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1976

The Waitresses
2/1
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1996

Más allá del jardín
5/8
Palmira, a woman belonging to the Sevillian aristocracy, as well known for her decrepitude and hypocrisy as the rest of her population, enters into an...
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1967

Fistful of Diamonds
0/0
Tough guy Callahan steals a case of diamonds in this Euro action film
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1977

Foul Play
4.9/18
A 1977 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem that won the Golden Prize the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.
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2005

C'est la vie, camarade!
0/0
Vazquez, 60, owns a small French publishing house. His mother, a Spanish refugee, raised him in the memory of a father, hero of the resistance under F...
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1961

At Five in the Afternoon
5/3
Spain's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1960
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1955

The Other Life of Captain Contreras
8/1
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1967

Camerino sin biombo
0/0
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1957

Roberto el diablo
0/0
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1981

Too Much for Galvez
0/0
Gálvez is a bumbling journalist investigating a real state shady business.
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Too Much for Galvez

1996

Mirada líquida
2/1
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1987

I picari
5.5/30
The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.
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1962

Abuelita Charlestón
0/0
A comedy fantasy film involving a love potion.
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1961

El amor empieza en sábado
6/2
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1963

Los abanderados de la Providencia
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1991

El crimen de Don Benito
3.7/3
July 18, 1902. A woman and her daughter are brutally murdered in the Extremaduran town of Don Benito. Everybody knows the depraved town boss was respo...
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1951

La Leona de Castilla
5.3/3
Crown of Castile, 1520. The Comuneros rise up against Charles I, king of Castile and Aragon and emperor of the Hispanic Monarchy. While Juan de Padill...
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La Leona de Castilla

1953

Vuelo 971
7/1
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Vuelo 971

1961

Despedida de soltero
0/0
A couple of friends, "Carmen" (Silvia Solar) and "Miguel"(Germán Cobos), fail to raise the money needed to marry. These difficulties encouraged the il...
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Despedida de soltero

1965

Julieta engaña a Romeo
5/1
Roberto decides to ask for permission at the office because he suspects his wife has a lover and wants to catch her. A friend of the protagonist offer...
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1957

Der Stern von Afrika
6.3/9
Biographic Movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa.
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1962

Héroes de blanco
0/0
In a hospital a woman debates between the love of two men.
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Héroes de blanco

1954

Judas' Kiss
10/1
The story of Judas's betrayal of Christ.
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Judas' Kiss

1991

El día que nací yo
4.3/3
A gypsy who sells fish in a market, sings on weekends in a tablao. One day, a professor, exiled in Cádiz for her political ideas, offers the cantaora...
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1966

Algunas lecciones de amor
0/0
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1965

Destino: Barajas
0/0
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1963

Forty Years of Dating
0/0
1910's. A young notary is unfaithful to his fiancée and their engagement is about to finish...
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Forty Years of Dating

1965

Desperate Mission
7/0
A nuclear scientist is kidnapped by Chinese communists in Hong Kong. A Japanese group of judo experts kidnaps him from the kidnappers, but before they...
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Desperate Mission

1958

El ángel está en la cumbre
0/0
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1957

Saranno uomini
5/2
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1991

La taberna fantástica
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After the death of his mother, Rogelio, a wanted man for killing a police officer, meets with a gang of young criminals and friends in the tavern of L...
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1955

Mañana cuando amanezca
5.5/4
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