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.
Cria!
as NicolásAna, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the...
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Law of Desire
as El CuraPablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan,...
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I picari
as Theatrical impresarioThe adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.
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Taxi for Tobruk
as Jean RamirezDuring World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the...
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Wanted
as Martin HeywoodA local sheriff is unjustly accused of murder in a small town and forced to flee. He gets rid of...
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Reverend's Colt
as Fred SmithReverend Miller arrives in Tucson where he wants to build a church. But on the very day of his...
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Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
as Avvocato Otello BellomoThe fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the...
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¡Se armó el belén!
as Don JoséAn old priest, who has old ideas, is intended to exercise the apostolate in a neighborhood in...
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The Sword and the Cross
as TulliusSold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as...
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La Leona de Castilla
as uncreditedCrown of Castile, 1520. The Comuneros rise up against Charles I, king of Castile and Aragon and...
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The Castilian
as AbderramánAlso released as Valley of the Swords, this lugubrious US/Spanish co-production features the...
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Foul Play
as EmigranteA 1977 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem that won the Golden Prize the 10th...
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Der Stern von Afrika
as uncreditedBiographic Movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills...
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Marianela
as D. CarlosMarianela is a poor girl with a disfigured face who works as Pablo's guide, a blind young man...
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Susanna tutta panna
as AlbertoA young woman gets closely watched by her jealous fiance while she is trying to deliver cakes to...
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Hidden Pleasures
as IgnacioEduardo, a wealthy banker who has a pastime for hiring young street hustlers to keep his bed...
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Mouth to Mouth
as Padre de LuciFor financial reasons an unemployed aspiring actor works for a phone-sex enterprise. One day he...
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Carmen from Ronda
as LucasAntonio is the leader of an underground armed group fighting in the village of Ronda against...
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Lola Colt
as Larry/El DiabloA traveling "corps de ballet" is stranded in a small Western town, where the town is being...
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Sexy Cat
as Mike CashA movie crew shooting a film featuring a comic-strip hero named The Sexy Cat finds itself...
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Female Three Times
as UgoThe Russian women's basketball team faces to the American team for the championship of the...
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Scent of a Crime
as AmaroSpain, 1950s. The corpse of an unknown person appears in the town square of Bocentellas, within...
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No Big Deal
as GaboThree sons are sent on a journey to trace their father's checkered past.
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El Secreto del capitán O'Hara
as Richard O'HaraA court-martialed soldier saves a fort and the major who had dishonestly testified against him...
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Tu novia está loca
as Padre de AmaiaAmaya is a modern girl, independent, who runs an advertising gency. The business is doing well...
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Alone in the Dark
as Ramón VidalJose, a journalist and radio broadcaster, runs a daily program under the title 'Alone in the wee...
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Quinto: Fighting Proud
as SucreA gang of outlaws gather at a desert saloon after robbing a bank. However, the loot is missing...
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The Lively Vampires of Vögel
as CarloThe town of Vögel, in Transylvania, stands under the ruins of the old castle where the vampire...
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Spanish Actress for Russian Minister
as «Продюсер»A love story between a mythical Russian minister and an opportunist TV series actress.
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El halcón de Castilla
as Don Diego de MendozaAdventure film of Spanish production that follows point by point the parameters set by other...
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Más allá del jardín
as Alvaro LarraPalmira, a woman belonging to the Sevillian aristocracy, as well known for her decrepitude and...
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Pariahs of Glory
as AlbertiniDuring World War II a young Frenchmen sees his brother killed in Alsace by a German officer. He...
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Julieta engaña a Romeo
as RobertoRoberto decides to ask for permission at the office because he suspects his wife has a lover and...
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Massacre at Fort Grant
as Paul DriscollStory of a group of settlers and how they had to take refuge in a fort when they were attacked...
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Despedida de soltero
as MiguelA couple of friends, "Carmen" (Silvia Solar) and "Miguel"(Germán Cobos), fail to raise the money...
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El crimen de Don Benito
as uncreditedJuly 18, 1902. A woman and her daughter are brutally murdered in the Extremaduran town of Don...
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The Lovely Lola
as Federico"La Bella Lola" is a struggling singer trying to make a living for herself and her sister Ana in...
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Blueprint for a Massacre
as Danny O'Connor / Agent Z-55A series of incidents involving aircrafts belonging to NATO nations indicates a systematic sabotage.
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Against The Wind
as AntonioJuan flees Madrid and an incestuous relationship with his sister, Ana, working at a mine on the...
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La revoltosa
as FelipeMari Pepa, a beautiful laundress of Madrid, and Felipe, a carpenter, are in love but they are...
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Judas' Kiss
as Andrés (no acreditado)The story of Judas's betrayal of Christ.
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Brillante Porvenir
as AntonioAntonio, a young man with a modest job in a small town, leads a monotonous existence until he is...
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Blood Calls to Blood
as PadreIn a frontier town between the USA and Mexico, Sancho and his gang assault a monastery, kill a...
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El día que nací yo
as RafaelA gypsy who sells fish in a market, sings on weekends in a tablao. One day, a professor, exiled...
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Forty Years of Dating
as Valentín Pereira1910's. A young notary is unfaithful to his fiancée and their engagement is about to finish...
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La patrulla
as CalatayudMadrid, 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Five infantry soldiers of the victorious side...
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Un paso al frente
as Rafael AguirreRafael, Miguel and Gabriel are three boys of different social status, who come to the call of...
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Too Much for Galvez
as El editorGálvez is a bumbling journalist investigating a real state shady business.
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Hand of the Assassin
as CarlosA group of people take shelter from the storm in an old spa served by a marriage and a servant....
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La taberna fantástica
as uncreditedAfter the death of his mother, Rogelio, a wanted man for killing a police officer, meets with a...
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Lola la Piconera
as Capitán Gustavo LefevreDuring the Napoleonic era, when Napoleon's army tried to complete the conquest of Spain and...
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Linked
as Sr. GuerreroAntonio and Concha, a couple who are constantly fighting about money, win the Christmas Lottery...
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Ama Rosa
as JavierRosa gives birth to a child who, by circumstances of life, is given for adoption to a wealthy...
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Desperate Mission
as Robert Manning / Danny O'Connor / Agent Z-55A nuclear scientist is kidnapped by Chinese communists in Hong Kong. A Japanese group of judo...
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La viuda del capitán Estrada
as MondéjarAfter the Second World War, the United Nations has declared the blockade of Franco's Spain. In...
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La vida es maravillosa
as Eugenio JalónEugenio Jalon is a young confident and of good character who has never left her village,...
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The Happy Sixties
as PabloMonica, a wife and mother, is dissatisfied with his routine, conventional life. Her husband,...
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Fistful of Diamonds
as ClarkTough guy Callahan steals a case of diamonds in this Euro action film
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Abuelita Charlestón
as PierreA comedy fantasy film involving a love potion.
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At Five in the Afternoon
as José ÁlvarezSpain's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1960
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Héroes de blanco
as Saúl KauffmanIn a hospital a woman debates between the love of two men.
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Aquí no hay quien viva
as ManoloA caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.
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