Roberto Cobo

Roberto Cobo

Born: February 20, 1930
Died: August 2, 2002
in General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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.

Movies for Roberto Cobo...

The Image Book
Title: The Image Book
Character: (film archive footage)
Released: October 11, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Without Destination
Title: Without Destination
Character: Sebastian
Released: March 27, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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A Beautiful Secret
Title: A Beautiful Secret
Character: Melquíades
Released: February 26, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Una luz en la calle
Title: Una luz en la calle
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Caiman's Dream
Title: Caiman's Dream
Character: Tomasito
Released: December 14, 2001
Type: Movie
Iñaki, a petty thief, is forced to leave Spain because of a crime that got complicated. He decides to go to Mexico to meet his father, and realizes that he has lived a life of lies, but also discovers other things, within a group of guys with little luck.
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The Magic Hour
Title: The Magic Hour
Character: Loco
Released: October 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Long Sleepless Nights
Title: Long Sleepless Nights
Character: Paolo
Released: June 16, 2000
Type: Movie
Bruno, a young prostitute on the streets of Mexico city, spends his free time yearning for his straight friend Umberto. When Umberto rejects him, Bruno reacts with his own violent and misguided actions...
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Speaking of Buñuel
Title: Speaking of Buñuel
Character: Himself
Released: June 9, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Santitos
Title: Santitos
Character: Doña Trini
Released: January 23, 1999
Type: Movie
After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza to challenge her own beliefs and face her fears in order to be reunited with her beloved daughter.
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El agujero
Title: El agujero
Released: September 22, 1997
Type: Movie
After twenty or thirty or forty unproductive years "up north" an emigrant gives up and goes home.
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Esmeralda Comes by Night
Title: Esmeralda Comes by Night
Character: Don Virginio, poet husband
Released: September 5, 1997
Type: Movie
Esmeralda is married with 5 husbands at the same time, so she has to explain to the judge why she has done this.
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Dulces compañías
Title: Dulces compañías
Released: August 9, 1996
Type: Movie
Evil street hustler plays out elaborate psychodramas with his janes and johns. They end up regretting they invited him home with them.
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La Güera Chabela
Title: La Güera Chabela
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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Cabeza de Vaca
Title: Cabeza de Vaca
Character: Lozoya
Released: October 11, 1991
Type: Movie
An international award winning saga of old Mexico. 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.
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Hembra o macho
Title: Hembra o macho
Released: May 16, 1991
Type: Movie
A lawyer fears he's gay after falling for a girl he thinks is a transvestite.
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Los pasos de Ana
Title: Los pasos de Ana
Released: February 24, 1991
Type: Movie
A divorced mother decides to do in life what she always wanted: To become a movie director. So she sets out to film every single thing that occurs in her everyday life
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The Legend of a Mask
Title: The Legend of a Mask
Character: Jacinto
Released: February 21, 1991
Type: Movie
A reporter starts investigating the life of the recently deceased wrestler "The Masked Angel"
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Amsterdam Boulevard
Title: Amsterdam Boulevard
Character: Padre de Gaby
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Gaby, a gay guy, lives with his sick father. One day Salvador, an ex-lover, appears in his apartment, who comes to borrow money from him and to ask him to be a couple again.
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Contigo en la distancia
Title: Contigo en la distancia
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
Title: El hijo de Lamberto Quintero
Released: November 15, 1990
Type: Movie
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.
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Slaughter Night
Title: Slaughter Night
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Three part anthology with stories involving a Phantom of the Opera-style killer haunting a theater, four punks who pick the wrong house to rob and a man on the hunt for Bigfoot.
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Oficio: Golfa
Title: Oficio: Golfa
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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Los hermanos Machorro
Title: Los hermanos Machorro
Released: November 23, 1988
Type: Movie
Aging rancher reaches out to absorb an illegitimate son from long ago into his family. That son turns out to be a big ol' hairdresser; will he ever fit into the rodeoin' machista ranch society?
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Violent Stories
Title: Violent Stories
Released: August 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
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Naná
Title: Naná
Character: Francisco
Released: May 9, 1985
Type: Movie
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.
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Dulce espiritu
Title: Dulce espiritu
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Knock Out
Title: Knock Out
Character: Sultan
Released: November 22, 1984
Type: Movie
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
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El Mil Usos II
Title: El Mil Usos II
Released: November 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.
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Title: La pasión de Isabela
Character: Maestro de Ceremonias
Released: April 30, 1984
Type: TV
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The Heart of the Night
Title: The Heart of the Night
Character: El Hombre sin brazos
Released: March 15, 1984
Type: Movie
A young deaf-mute who lives and has intercourse with a blind man much older than she, inevitably attracts a shy driving instructor a strange, hallucinatory underworld, populated by those beings whose mutilation, impaired physical differences, have become rejected of society.
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The Glories of the Great Púas
Title: The Glories of the Great Púas
Released: March 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career.
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Deceitful Appearances
Title: Deceitful Appearances
Character: Daniel el Peluquero
Released: March 24, 1983
Type: Movie
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.
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El día del compadre
Title: El día del compadre
Character: Flor de Lis
Released: March 10, 1983
Type: Movie
The inhabitants of a condominium prepare to party and have a baile where various things happen caused by alcohol.
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La combi asesina
Title: La combi asesina
Character: Chava
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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D.F./Distrito Federal
Title: D.F./Distrito Federal
Released: October 29, 1981
Type: Movie
Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city.
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Angel del barrio
Title: Angel del barrio
Character: Chinche
Released: June 17, 1981
Type: Movie
Retired boxer is the moral compass of his slum neighborhood.
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La leyenda de Rodrígo
Title: La leyenda de Rodrígo
Released: May 28, 1981
Type: Movie
Rodrigo is a seminarist that soon will be a priest, but a demon woman seduce him. He doesn't know what path choose.
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Long live Tepito!
Title: Long live Tepito!
Character: El Mandril
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: Movie
Slice of life covering four or five days in a badly run-down neighborhood. Matriarch of a slum family dies unexpectedly; relatives from neighboring blocks cope with the loss and arrange her funeral.
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At a Lame Pace
Title: At a Lame Pace
Released: May 29, 1980
Type: Movie
Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
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Life Sentence
Title: Life Sentence
Character: Gallito
Released: August 9, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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Estas ruinas que ves
Title: Estas ruinas que ves
Character: Ricardo Pórtico
Released: March 3, 1979
Type: Movie
In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already pledged to marry another man.
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Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
Title: Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
Character: 'El Saltaperico'
Released: August 10, 1978
Type: Movie
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…
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Free Love
Title: Free Love
Character: El Cantante
Released: August 9, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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The Place Without Limits
Title: The Place Without Limits
Character: La Manuela
Released: April 28, 1978
Type: Movie
Father and daughter compete for the same passion in a ruthless place where kindness mixes with hate.
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El águila descalza
Title: El águila descalza
Character: El Apostol, paciente Manicomio
Released: December 8, 1971
Type: Movie
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
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Black Wind
Title: Black Wind
Character: Ingeniero Carlos Jiménez
Released: December 23, 1965
Type: Movie
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.
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Bring Me the Vampire
Title: Bring Me the Vampire
Character: Alberto
Released: June 14, 1963
Type: Movie
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.
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House of the Frights
Title: House of the Frights
Character: Alberto
Released: March 22, 1963
Type: Movie
Half-dozen comic actors in a spooky house.
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Jóvenes y bellas
Title: Jóvenes y bellas
Released: May 17, 1962
Type: Movie
Five city boys and five country boys compete for the attentions of five city girls.
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Se alquila marido
Title: Se alquila marido
Character: Lic. Silva
Released: November 30, 1961
Type: Movie
Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.
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Pompeyo el conquistador
Title: Pompeyo el conquistador
Released: January 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Timid guy creates an alter-ego who will get tough with people while he continues being gentle and jolly.
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Mexican Bus Ride
Title: Mexican Bus Ride
Character: Juan
Released: June 25, 1952
Type: Movie
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.
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Dancing, salón de baile
Title: Dancing, salón de baile
Released: February 5, 1952
Type: Movie
Mambo nightclub is a front for gangster activity.
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Mujeres de teatro
Title: Mujeres de teatro
Released: November 10, 1951
Type: Movie
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Los enredos de una gallega
Title: Los enredos de una gallega
Released: October 11, 1951
Type: Movie
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.
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Vuelva el sábado
Title: Vuelva el sábado
Released: September 23, 1951
Type: Movie
Young woman loses her secretarial job, so she tries to become a bill-collector.
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Una gringuita en México
Title: Una gringuita en México
Character: Gabucho
Released: April 27, 1951
Type: Movie
A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!
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La reina del mambo
Title: La reina del mambo
Released: February 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Nightclub performer escapes from her abusive manager and starts life over in a new city.
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Nosotras, las taquígrafas
Title: Nosotras, las taquígrafas
Character: Novio de Gloria
Released: December 28, 1950
Type: Movie
Young women in the steno-pool have to balance work, romance, and touchy-feely bosses.
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The Young and the Damned
Title: The Young and the Damned
Character: Jaibo
Released: December 9, 1950
Type: Movie
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.
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Caribbean Rhythms
Title: Caribbean Rhythms
Released: December 6, 1950
Type: Movie
A Cuban rumbera dancer undergoes an ordeal to fall in love with a married Mexican doctor.
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Donde nacen los pobres
Title: Donde nacen los pobres
Released: August 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Working-class boy, pampered rich girl. She thinks their love is strong enough to overcome all the class issues; he knows better, but he decides to give it a whirl anyway. It ends badly for everyone.
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Si fuera una cualquiera
Title: Si fuera una cualquiera
Released: May 31, 1950
Type: Movie
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The King of the Neighborhood
Title: The King of the Neighborhood
Character: Boy (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1950
Type: Movie
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
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El ángel caído
Title: El ángel caído
Released: June 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Two gangsters on the lam end up in Cuba.
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Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
Title: Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
Released: June 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Two military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same guys rape and murder his wife, then use their young son for target practice. Enough is enough.
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El secreto de Juan Palomo
Title: El secreto de Juan Palomo
Released: December 4, 1947
Type: Movie
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La casa colorada
Title: La casa colorada
Released: August 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.
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La niña de mis ojos
Title: La niña de mis ojos
Released: May 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Classic movie of Mexican cinema.