Alejandro Cobo Explained

Alejandro Cobo
Birth Name:	Alejandro Cobo Higuera
Birth Date:	1904
Birth Place:	Liérganes, Cantabria, Spain
Death Place:	Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation:	Actor

Alejandro Cobo Higuera (1904 – 21 March 1950) was a Spanish-Mexican actor. He worked in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, in films such as Virgen de medianoche (1942),^[1] The Eternal Secret (1942),^[2] The White Monk (1945),^[3] Hermoso ideal (1948),^[4] The Genius (1948) and The Magician (1949).^[5] He was the stepfather of Roberto Cobo.^[6]

Selected filmography

• El rápido de las 9.15 (1941)
• The Eternal Secret (1942)
• I'm a Real Mexican (1942)
• María Eugenia (1943)
• El Misterioso señor Marquina (1943)
• El corsario negro (1944)
• The White Monk (1945)
• The Genius (1948)
• The Magician (1949)
• The Bewitched House (1949)
• The Devil Is a Woman (1950)
• The King of the Neighborhood (1950)

Bibliography

• Aviña, Rafael. David Silva: un campeón de mil rostros. UNAM, 2007.
• Ibarra, Jesús. Los Bracho: tres generaciones de cine mexicano. UNAM, 2006.
• García Riera, Emilio. Historia documental del cine mexicano, Volumen 18 1997. Universidad de Guadalajara, 1997.

Notes and References

1. 25 años Filmoteca de la UNAM. UNAM. 1986. p. 35.
2. Aviña, p. 47.
3. Ibarra, p. 222.
4. Riera, p. 42.
5. Web site: Alejandro Cobo. SensaCine.com. es.
6. Siempre! (1985), Universidad de Michigan, Editorial Siempre, p. 34.