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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-02-20

Place of Birth

General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

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.

Known for

La pasión de Isabela

La pasión de Isabela

Life Sentence

Life Sentence

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.

Pancho cachuchas

Pancho cachuchas

Free Love

Free Love

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.

Naná

Naná

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.

El agujero

El agujero

After twenty or thirty or forty unproductive years "up north" an emigrant gives up and goes home.

Slaughter Night

Slaughter Night

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.

Dulce espiritu

Dulce espiritu

Mexican TV film about spiritism. Part of the series "Cuentos de Madrugada".

Caiman's Dream

Caiman's Dream

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.

The Young and the Damned

The Young and the Damned

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.

Little Saints

Little Saints

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.

The Heart of the Night

The Heart of the Night

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.

Amsterdam Boulevard

Amsterdam Boulevard

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.

Violent Stories

Violent Stories

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

Tianguis, mercado sobre ruedas

Tianguis, mercado sobre ruedas