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.
as Joe
as Delgado
as Manolo(1 ep)
as Gabo
as Arturo(130 eps)
as Alvaro Larra
as Sr. Guerrero
as Padre de Luci
as Don Benjamín(1 ep)
as L'Homme à la Cornemuse(1 ep)
as Rafael
as Mondéjar
as Antonio
as «Продюсер»
as Amaro
as Padre de Amaia
as Theatrical impresario
as El Cura
as Juez Pedrosa(5 eps)
as El editor
as Ramón Vidal
as Ignacio
as Emigrante
as Enrique
as Nicolás
as Carlo
as Mike Cash
as D. Carlos
as Fred Smith
as Capitán Gustavo Lefevre
as Don José
as Daniel
as Pablo
as Sucre
as Richard O'Hara
as Padre
as Don Diego de Mendoza
as Larry/El Diablo
as Carlos
as Joe Callaghan
as Clark
as Martin Heywood
as Danny O'Connor / Agent Z-55
as Presentador / Juan
as Robert Manning / Danny O'Connor / Agent Z-55
as Roberto
as Antonio
as Paul Driscoll
as Albertini
as Felipe
as Valentín Pereira
as Abderramán
as Il colonnello Chamonis
as Federico
as Saúl Kauffman
as Pierre
as Miguel
as Carlos
as José Álvarez
as Jean Ramirez
as Rafael Aguirre
as Javier
as Lucas
as Paco
as Carlos Valle
as Avvocato Otello Bellomo
as Ugo
as Alberto
as Roberto
as Tullius
as Silvestre
as Carlos
as Eugenio Jalón
as Calatayud
as Andrés (no acreditado)
as Primer oficial
