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.
2007
as Joe
2005
as Delgado
2003
as Manolo
2003
as Gabo
2001
as Arturo
1996
as Alvaro Larra
1996
1996
as Sr. Guerrero
1995
as Padre de Luci
1995
as Don Benjamín
1992
as L'Homme à la Cornemuse
1991
as Rafael
1991
as Mondéjar
1991
1991
1990
as Antonio
1990
as «Продюсер»
1988
as Amaro
1988
as Padre de Amaia
1987
as Theatrical impresario
1987
as El Cura
1984
as Juez Pedrosa (5 episodes, 1984)
1981
as El editor
1978
as Ramón Vidal
1977
as Ignacio
1977
as Emigrante
1976
as Enrique
1976
as Nicolás
1975
as Carlo
1973
as Mike Cash
1972
as D. Carlos
1970
as Fred Smith
1970
as Capitán Gustavo Lefevre
1969
as Don José
1969
as Daniel
1969
as Pablo
1969
as Sucre
1968
as Richard O'Hara
1968
as Padre
1967
as Don Diego de Mendoza
1967
as Larry/El Diablo
1967
as Carlos
1967
as Joe Callaghan
1967
as Clark
1967
as Martin Heywood
1967
1967
as Danny O'Connor / Agent Z-55
1966
as Presentador / Juan
1965
as Robert Manning / Danny O'Connor / Agent Z-55
1965
as Roberto
1965
as Antonio
1965
1964
as Paul Driscoll
1964
as Albertini
1963
as Felipe
1963
as Valentín Pereira
1963
as Abderramán
1963
1962
as Il colonnello Chamonis
1962
as Federico
1962
as Saúl Kauffman
1962
as Pierre
1961
as Miguel
1961
as Carlos
1961
as José Álvarez
1961
as Jean Ramirez
1960
as Rafael Aguirre
1960
as Javier
1959
as Lucas
1959
as Paco
1958
as Carlos Valle
1957
as Avvocato Otello Bellomo
1957
as Ugo
1957
as Alberto
1957
1957
1957
as Roberto
1956
as Tullius
1956
as Silvestre
1956
as Carlos
1956
as Eugenio Jalón
1955
as Pedro
1955
1954
as Calatayud
1954
as Andrés (no acreditado)
1953
as Primer oficial
1951