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Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 17, 1936
Place of Birth
Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico
José Carlos Ruiz
1.4 Popularity
Biography
José Carlos Ruiz (born November 17th, 1936) is a Mexican film and television actor, born in the City of Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico. His first film intervention is in the film Black Wind, which deals with a tragedy that occurred in the Altar Desert, in Sonora, Mexico, where he acted alongside David Reynoso, Fernando Luján, etc. filmed in 1965. Later (1966) he filmed The Scapular, a prestigious film in which he acted alongside Enrique Lizalde, Ofelia Guilmáin, Alicia Bonet, Carlos Cardán and the late Enrique Aguilar, among other actors. It appears in the historical recreation of a tragic episode that happened in the Republic of Chile, in the tape, Actas de Marusia, which narrates the drama of a bloody crushing of a mining strike in that country. The film is important for the prominent actors who participate in it: Alejandro Parodi, Diana Bracho, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Eduardo López Rojas, Salvador Sánchez, Gian María Volanté, among others, but also, by the then very recent military coup led by the General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. In 1976, he appeared in El Apando, a film in which he played a drug addict locked up in the Black Palace or Lecumberri Prison, which is the complaint made by the political express and now disappeared José Revueltas regarding the Mexican prison system, seen from his confinement as a prisoner of conscience in that prison. Under the Shrapnel is a film filmed in 1983, which deals with the issue of the Guerrilla and where this actor plays an infiltrator who finally turns out to be a police officer; Two years later he would film Massacre in the Tula River, where he plays a Colombian guerrilla and trafficker, and which refers to a real-life case that happened in Mexico City, allegedly victimized by police officers.
Known For
Credits
La posada
as Carlos
2023
7.8
CARNAL
as Gonzalo
2021
0.0
Tell Me When
2020
6.6
Tigers
as Pascual el Viejo
2020
0.0
Laws of love
as Armando
2018
8.0
Stormmaker
2017
3.9
Warehoused
as Mr. Lino
2015
7.4
One for the Road
as Emiliano
2015
7.4
El lado oscuro de la luz
2013
5.0
Wild at Heart
as Padre Julián
2013
7.8
Suave Patria
as Jeronimo Natage
2012
6.2
Crossing the Desert
as Don Prudencio
2012
4.0
Soy tu dueña
as Sabino Mercado
2010
7.7
El estudiante
as Don Pedro
2009
7.7
Sortilegio
as Chucho
2009
7.6
Buddah's Head
as Invitado 3
2009
3.0
Morenita: el escándalo
as Obispo
2009
5.6
Más allá del muro
2009
6.7
Tear This Heart Out
as Soriano
2008
7.9
Killer Women
as Comandante Quiroz
2008
7.6
Cruz de navajas
2008
5.0
El Garabato
as Commander Carmona
2008
6.5
Storm Over Paradise
as Ahzac
2007
7.2
24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
2007
5.0
Guadalupe
2006
5.0
Amar sin límites
as Don Aurelio Huerta
2006
6.4
Tribus Urbanas
2006
5.0
Curandero
as Don Carlos
2005
5.6
The Miracle
2003
0.0
Dark Fate
as Isidro Valtierra
2003
7.1
Las perversiones del padre José
2003
3.4
Las Vías del Amor
as Fidel Gutiérrez Arismendi
2002
6.6
Snake Skin
2002
5.0
🎬
Viaje Aterrador
as Alejandro
2002
5.0
Benjamín
2002
0.0
🎬
Atrévete a Olvidarme
as Cecilio Rabadán
2001
6.6
🎬
His Most Serene Highness
as Máximo Huerta
2000
6.2
La casa en la playa
as Severo Rincón
2000
10.0
Reclusorio III
1999
5.0
Soñadoras
as Don Eugenio de la Peña
1998
7.4
María Isabel
as Pedro
1997
7.3
Pueblo chico, infierno grande
as Arcadio
1997
0.0
🎬
Jasmine blossoms
as Don Ramón
1996
5.7
Morir dos veces
as Orduña
1996
0.0
Two Crimes
as Ramón
1995
4.7
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
1994
5.0
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
as Don Severo
1993
5.0
El extensionista
as Manuela
1991
5.4
El extensionista
as Benito Sánchez
1991
5.4
🎬
La jaula de la muerte
as Enrique
1990
5.0
Honeymoon Academy
as Choirboy
1989
5.1
🎬
A Christmas Carol
1989
2.0
Goitia: A God for Himself
as Goitia
1989
3.6
Hope
as General
1988
5.8
The Wrath of a God
1988
4.6
Reto a la vida
as Doctor
1988
5.0
Intriga contra México
1988
5.0
The Scent of Death
as Mr. López
1987
6.0
Zapata en Chinameca
as Urbano Martínez
1987
5.8
La mujer policía
1987
3.5
Contrabando y muerte
1986
5.0
Astucia
as Tendero
1986
5.8
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
as Guillermo
1986
5.0
Salvador
as Archbishop Romero
1986
7.0
Three of Cups
as Narrator
1986
5.7
Robachicos
1986
5.0
Wandering Lives
as Francisco
1985
5.7
Viaje al paraíso
as Pajarito
1985
4.1
Violent Stories
1985
5.7
Masacre en el río Tula
as El Mulato
1985
5.9
Toña Machetes
1985
5.9
Operation Marihuana
1985
5.0
El Mil Usos II
1984
6.3
Luna de sangre
as Coco Loco
1984
6.0
Carnival Night
as Jincho
1984
6.6
Mundo mágico
1983
4.8
Under the Shrapnel
as Martin
1983
5.1
Fuego en el mar
as Manuel
1981
5.8
Occupation of Darkness
1981
4.3
El mil usos
1981
7.0
Caboblanco
as Hernandez
1980
5.3
Eagle's Wing
as Lame Wolf
1979
5.2
The Holy War
as Celso Dominguez
1979
4.8
Cananea
as Manuel Diéguez
1978
5.8
Who'll Stop the Rain
as Galindez
1978
6.5
The Children of Sanchez
1978
6.1
The Year of the Plague
as Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
1978
5.1
Rattlesnake
as Tomás
1977
6.1
El elegido
as Judas
1977
6.3
The Bricklayers
as Jacinto Martínez
1976
6.5
The Heist
as El Carajo
1976
6.5
The House in the South
as Peasant
1976
4.7
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1976
5.3
Letters from Marusia
as Argandoña
1975
5.4
El valle de los miserables
as Tío Chinto
1975
3.8
Simon Blanco
as Lic. Cardoso
1975
5.3
Los perros de Dios
1974
4.0
La muerte de Pancho Villa
1974
5.6
Buck and the Preacher
as Brave
1972
6.3
They Call Him Marcado
as el Manco
1971
4.0
Emiliano Zapata
1970
6.2
Valentín de la Sierra
1968
5.6
The Scapular
as Ruiz, soldado
1968
8.3
Black Wind
as Pablo Penagos
1965
7.9
Major Dundee
as Riago
1965
6.6