Personal Info
Birth date
1930-02-20 (95 Years)
Day of death
2002-08-02
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Also known as
Calambres
Roberto Cobo
Biography
Roberto Cobo was born on February 20, 1930 in General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, Mexico as Roberto Garcia Romero. He was an actor, known for Los olvidados (1950), Dulces compañías (1996) and Subida al cielo (1952). His apartment collapsed during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. Fortunately, he was rescued but his hip was damaged badly. He had to use a staff to walk after the earthquake. He died on August 2, 2002 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
Filmography
Cabeza de Vaca
6.9
Overview:
In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.The Image Book
6.4
Overview:
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the aesthetic spark through editing, the keystone. The author performs the work of a sculptor. The hand, for this, is essential. He praises it at the start. “There are the five fingers. The five senses. The five parts of the world (…). The true condition of man is to think with his hands. Jean-Luc Godard composes a dazzling syncopation of sequences, the surge of which evokes the violence of the flows of our contemporary screens, taken to a level of incandescence rarely achieved. Crowned at Cannes, the last Godard is a shock film, with twilight beauty.Speaking of Buñuel
5.9
Overview:
Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre.The Young and the Damned
8.046
Overview:
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.A Beautiful Secret
5.375
Overview:
The beloved screen legend Katy Jurado, the lights one last time in the history of a special friendship that develops between a lonely old woman and Jorge, a rebellious teenager in Mexico City in 1984. Through the use flashbacks, Jorge, now an adult, remembers the unforgettable lessons and conversations about human nature and society in general. This fascinating film provides a beautiful tribute to the legendary actress in a history of heart that will make you laugh and think.The Magic Hour
4.6
Overview:
Minerva, a middle age writer, decides to break the uncertainty that prevents her from creating the novel that for years she has nested in her mind. Unintentionally, she returns to the port where she was born and she encounters a past full of ghosts and chimeras. Paradoxically, she founds herself because of this journey back home, so she begins writing the story of her life, of her own childhood, with its magical past and tragedy.El día del compadre
5.3
Overview:
The inhabitants of a condominium prepare to party and have a baile where various things happen caused by alcohol.La casa colorada
5.2
Overview:
Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.Mexican Bus Ride
6.548
Overview:
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.Without Destination
5.6
Overview:
Sin Destino follows the life of a 15 year old Mexican boy, Francisco, as he struggles to survive on the streets. His primary source of income is money raised by prostituting himself to men for sex, and the film implies that this learned behaviour has arisen as a result of a contact with a single man when Francisco was 9 years old. This man, Sebastien, is an "artist" who initially claimed to want to photograph the boy, but it is clear that their relationship at one time extended far beyond that of photographer/model.Bring Me the Vampire
3.6
Overview:
A group of would-be beneficiaries gather for the reading of a will, and discover that they must spend the night in a spooky castle to gain their inheritance. A spooky housekeeper and a man who seems to be a vampire are just two of the obstacles that might deter them.Naná
4.8
Overview:
Based on the Émile Zola same name novel. The life of Nana, a French prostitute of the 19th century. The film includes numerous musical acts performed by Irma Serrano.Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
5.5
Overview:
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…Free Love
4.2
Overview:
Two single women share an apartment, work together, and sometimes swap boyfriends. None of their romantic attachments seem quite as stable or enduring as their friendship.Los enredos de una gallega
5.5
Overview:
Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her because she can't find the ticket.The Place Without Limits
7.4
Overview:
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.Life Sentence
6.6
Overview:
After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.Black Wind
7.9
Overview:
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.The King of the Neighborhood
8.3
Overview:
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.Hembra o macho
4
Overview:
A lawyer fears he's gay after falling for a girl he thinks is a transvestite.Angel del barrio
5
Overview:
Patada de Mula, an old retired boxer, lives with the guilt of having killed his opponent in his last fight, but he works as a masseur in a gym, sells balloons on Sundays and with the proceeds supports the widow of the opponent he killed and his son El Kid, an aspiring boxer, without his knowledge. Patada is also in love with his neighbor Marga, a young woman who is pushed into prostitution by the gangster Duque and his own father, but to whom Patada sends letters as an anonymous lover. The Kid is sponsored by Duke and detests Patada for the death of his father, but when he throws him out of the inn that his mother tends she confesses to him what he has done for them and the Kid asks her forgiveness and makes him his second.El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
5.2
Overview:
Lamberto Quintero is assassinated and his son intends to avenge him following in his footsteps. The pair of father and son, Antonio Aguilar and Pepe Aguilar star in this action film.Deceitful Appearances
4.4
Overview:
The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.La leyenda de Rodrígo
5.3
Overview:
Rodrigo is a seminarist that soon will be a priest, but a demon woman seduce him. He doesn't know what path choose.El Mil Usos II
6.3
Overview:
Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.Acting
2018The Image Book as (archive footage)
2002Without Destination as Sebastian
2002A Beautiful Secret as Melquíades
2002Una luz en la calle as Unknown
2002Beso nocturno as Unknown
2001Caiman's Dream as Tomasito
2000The Magic Hour as Loco
2000Long Sleepless Nights as Paolo
2000Speaking of Buñuel as Self
1999Little Saints as Doña Trini
1997El agujero as Unknown
1997Esmeralda Comes by Night as Don Virginio, poet husband
1997A Mexican Buñuel as Self
1996Dulces Compañías as Unknown
1994La Güera Chabela as Unknown
1993Los pasos de Ana as Unknown
1991Cabeza de Vaca as Lozoya
1991Hembra o macho as Unknown
1991The Legend of a Mask as Jacinto
1991Amsterdam Boulevard as Padre de Gaby
1991Contigo en la distancia as Unknown
1990El hijo de Lamberto Quintero as Unknown
1990Me alquilo por amor as Unknown
1990Slaughter Night as Renfield
1989Pancho cachuchas as Unknown
1988Los hermanos Machorro as Unknown
1985Violent Stories as Manolo
1985Naná as Francisco
1985Dulce espiritu as Unknown
1984Knock Out as Sultan
1984El Mil Usos II as Unknown
1984La pasión de Isabela (1 Episode) as Maestro de Ceremonias
1984The Heart of the Night as El Hombre sin brazos
1984The Glories of the Great Púas as Unknown
1983Deceitful Appearances as Daniel el Peluquero
1983El día del compadre as Flor de Lis
1982La combi asesina as Chava
1981D.F./Distrito Federal as Unknown
1981Angel del barrio as Chinche
1981La leyenda de Rodrígo as Unknown
1981Long live Tepito! as El Mandril
1980At a Lame Pace as Unknown
1979Life Sentence as Gallito
1979Estas ruinas que ves as Ricardo Pórtico
1978Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna as 'El Saltaperico'
1978Free Love as El Cantante
1978The Place Without Limits as La Manuela
1971El águila descalza as El Apostol, paciente Manicomio
1965Black Wind as Ingeniero Carlos Jiménez
1963Bring Me the Vampire as Alberto
1963House of the Frights as Alberto
1962Jóvenes y bellas as Unknown
1961Se alquila marido as Lic. Silva
1953Pompeyo el conquistador as Unknown
1952Mexican Bus Ride as Juan
1952Dancing, salón de baile as Unknown
1951Mujeres de teatro as Unknown
1951Los enredos de una gallega as Unknown
1951Vuelva el sábado as Unknown
1951Una gringuita en México as Gabucho
1951La reina del mambo as Unknown
1950Nosotras, las taquígrafas as Novio de Gloria
1950The Young and the Damned as Jaibo
1950Caribbean Rhythms as Unknown
1950Donde nacen los pobres as Unknown
1950Si fuera una cualquiera as Unknown
1950The King of the Neighborhood as Boy (uncredited)
1949El ángel caído as Unknown
1949Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio as Unknown
1947El secreto de Juan Palomo as Unknown
1947La casa colorada as Unknown
1947La niña de mis ojos as Unknown