Germán Cobos

Germán Sánchez HernándezCobos 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 Orduñas 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 Salvias 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 Montiels 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 coproduction 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 IsasiIsasmendi 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