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name: "Roberto Cobo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/roberto-cobo"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "20 February 1930"
died: "2 August 2002"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T12:28:05.935831+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Roberto Cobo

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

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 20 February 1930, General Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
- **Died:** 2 August 2002
- **Also known as:** Calambres

## Biography

Roberto Cobo, also credited as Calambres, was a Mexican actor. Born Roberto García Romero on 20 February 1930 in General Zuazua, Nuevo León, he began performing in theatre as a child and made his film debut in the mid-1940s. He appeared in more than eighty films between 1947 and 2002.

Cobo is best known for his role as Jaibo in Luis Buñuel’s *The Young and the Damned* (1950; original title *Los olvidados*), for which he received the first Ariel Award for Best Youth Actor. He later played La Manuela in Arturo Ripstein’s *The Place Without Limits* (1978). Other credits include *Subida al cielo* (1952) and *Dulces compañías* (1996).

His apartment building collapsed during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake; he was rescued but suffered a serious hip injury that affected his mobility thereafter. Cobo died of cancer on 2 August 2002 in Mexico City.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, es.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Young and the Damned* (1950), Fi1m 84, as Jaibo — [page](https://film.one/film/the-young-and-the-damned.md)

## Also known for

- *The Image Book* (2018), (archive footage)
- *The King of the Neighborhood* (1950), Boy (uncredited)
- *The Place Without Limits* (1978), La Manuela

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