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.
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.
External links
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/nm0167962
Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1514303
Facebook: No data
Instagram: No data
X: No data
Filmography (Movies)
Limoncello
Character:Joe
Release Date:15/05/2007
C'est la vie, camarade!
Character:Delgado
Release Date:04/01/2005
No Big Deal
Character:Gabo
Release Date:05/03/2003
Más allá del jardín
Character:Alvaro Larra
Release Date:20/12/1996
Mirada líquida
Character:
Release Date:29/11/1996
Linked
Character:Sr. Guerrero
Release Date:16/11/1996
Mouth to Mouth
Character:Padre de Luci
Release Date:10/11/1995
El día que nací yo
Character:Rafael
Release Date:25/09/1991
La viuda del capitán Estrada
Character:Mondéjar
Release Date:06/09/1991
La taberna fantástica
Character:
Release Date:13/07/1991
El crimen de Don Benito
Character:
Release Date:06/03/1991
Against the Wind
Character:Antonio
Release Date:10/10/1990
Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
Character:«Продюсер»
Release Date:25/01/1990
Scent of a Crime
Character:Amaro
Release Date:21/10/1988
Tu novia está loca
Character:Padre de Amaia
Release Date:21/01/1988
I picari
Character:Theatrical impresario
Release Date:18/12/1987
Law of Desire
Character:El Cura
Release Date:07/02/1987
Too Much for Galvez
Character:El editor
Release Date:01/10/1981
Alone in the Small Hours
Character:Ramón Vidal
Release Date:03/04/1978
Hidden Pleasures
Character:Ignacio
Release Date:14/04/1977
Foul Play
Character:Emigrante
Release Date:11/03/1977
The Waitresses
Character:Enrique
Release Date:19/11/1976
Cria!
Character:Nicolás
Release Date:03/06/1976
The Lively Vampires of Vögel
Character:Carlo
Release Date:16/11/1975
Sexy Cat
Character:Mike Cash
Release Date:21/05/1973
Marianela
Character:D. Carlos
Release Date:15/02/1972
Reverend's Colt
Character:Fred Smith
Release Date:24/12/1970
Lola la Piconera
Character:Capitán Gustavo Lefevre
Release Date:24/01/1970
¡Se armó el belén!
Character:Don José
Release Date:29/12/1969
Matrimonios separados
Character:Daniel
Release Date:08/12/1969
The Happy Sixties
Character:Pablo
Release Date:30/07/1969
Quinto: Fighting Proud
Character:Sucre
Release Date:14/06/1969
El Secreto del capitán O'Hara
Character:Richard O'Hara
Release Date:22/10/1968
Blood Calls to Blood
Character:Padre
Release Date:06/04/1968
El halcón de Castilla
Character:Don Diego de Mendoza
Release Date:23/10/1967
Lola Colt
Character:Larry/El Diablo
Release Date:22/10/1967
Hand of the Assassin
Character:Carlos
Release Date:01/09/1967
L'uomo dal pugno d'oro
Character:Joe Callaghan
Release Date:21/04/1967
Fistful of Diamonds
Character:Clark
Release Date:20/04/1967
Wanted
Character:Martin Heywood
Release Date:22/03/1967
Camerino sin biombo
Character:
Release Date:16/01/1967
Blueprint for a Massacre
Character:Danny O'Connor / Agent Z-55
Release Date:12/01/1967
Algunas lecciones de amor
Character:Presentador / Juan
Release Date:25/07/1966
Desperate Mission
Character:Robert Manning / Danny O'Connor / Agent Z-55
Release Date:13/11/1965
Julieta engaña a Romeo
Character:Roberto
Release Date:02/08/1965
Brillante Porvenir
Character:Antonio
Release Date:05/04/1965
Destino: Barajas
Character:
Release Date:01/02/1965
Massacre at Fort Grant
Character:Paul Driscoll
Release Date:04/12/1964
Pariahs of Glory
Character:Albertini
Release Date:05/04/1964
La revoltosa
Character:Felipe
Release Date:09/12/1963
Forty Years of Dating
Character:Valentín Pereira
Release Date:03/10/1963
The Castilian
Character:Abderramán
Release Date:07/03/1963
Los abanderados de la Providencia
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1963
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
Character:Il colonnello Chamonis
Release Date:11/10/1962
The Lovely Lola
Character:Federico
Release Date:06/09/1962
Héroes de blanco
Character:Saúl Kauffman
Release Date:27/07/1962
Abuelita Charlestón
Character:Pierre
Release Date:01/01/1962
Despedida de soltero
Character:Miguel
Release Date:27/11/1961
El amor empieza en sábado
Character:Carlos
Release Date:20/11/1961
At Five in the Afternoon
Character:José Álvarez
Release Date:16/05/1961
Taxi for Tobruk
Character:Jean Ramirez
Release Date:09/05/1961
Un paso al frente
Character:Rafael Aguirre
Release Date:31/10/1960
Ama Rosa
Character:Javier
Release Date:17/04/1960
Carmen from Ronda
Character:Lucas
Release Date:20/09/1959
Soledad
Character:Paco
Release Date:07/02/1959
El ángel está en la cumbre
Character:Carlos Valle
Release Date:01/01/1958
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Character:Avvocato Otello Bellomo
Release Date:23/12/1957
Female Three Times
Character:Ugo
Release Date:25/10/1957
Susanna tutta panna
Character:Alberto
Release Date:20/09/1957
The Star of Africa
Character:
Release Date:13/08/1957
Saranno uomini
Character:
Release Date:23/03/1957
Roberto el diablo
Character:Roberto
Release Date:21/01/1957
The Sword and the Cross
Character:Tullius
Release Date:13/12/1956
Cuerda de presos
Character:Silvestre
Release Date:30/08/1956
Retorno a la verdad
Character:Carlos
Release Date:30/04/1956
La vida es maravillosa
Character:Eugenio Jalón
Release Date:20/02/1956
The Other Life of Captain Contreras
Character:Pedro
Release Date:05/06/1955
Mañana cuando amanezca
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1955
La patrulla
Character:Calatayud
Release Date:05/09/1954
Judas' Kiss
Character:Andrés (no acreditado)
Release Date:27/02/1954
Vuelo 971
Character:Primer oficial
Release Date:27/12/1953
La Leona de Castilla
Character:
Release Date:28/05/1951
Television Appearances
Images
