José Carlos Ruiz
Acting
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
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movieLa posada
2023
Carlos
movieCARNAL
2021
Gonzalo
movieTigers
2020
Pascual el Viejo
tvLaws of love
2018
Armando
movieWarehoused
2015
Mr. Lino
movieOne for the Road
2015
Emiliano
tvWild at Heart
2013
Padre Julián
movieSuave Patria
2012
Jeronimo Natage
movieCrossing the Desert
2012
Don Prudencio
tvSoy tu dueña
2010
Sabino Mercado
movieEl estudiante
2009
Don Pedro
tvSortilegio
2009
Chucho
movieBuddah's Head
2009
Invitado 3
movieTear This Heart Out
2008
Soriano
tvKiller Women
2008
Comandante Quiroz
movieEl Garabato
2008
Commander Carmona
tvAmar sin límites
2006
Don Aurelio Huerta
movieCurandero
2005
Don Carlos
tvDark Fate
2003
Isidro Valtierra
tvLas Vías del Amor
2002
Fidel Gutiérrez Arismendi
tvAtrévete a Olvidarme
2001
Cecilio Rabadán
tvLa casa en la playa
2000
Severo Rincón
tvSoñadoras
1998
Don Eugenio de la Peña
tvMaría Isabel
1997
Pedro
tvMorir dos veces
1996
Orduña
movieTwo Crimes
1995
Ramón
movieEl extensionista
1991
Manuela / Benito Sánchez
movieFor Better or for Worse
1989
Choirboy
movieHope
1988
General
movieReto a la vida
1988
Doctor
movieThe Scent of Death
1987
Mr. López
movieZapata en Chinameca
1987
Urbano Martínez
movieWandering Lives
1987
Francisco
movieAstucia
1986
Tendero
movieSalvador
1986
Archbishop Romero
movieThree of Cups
1986
Narrator
tvMuchachita
1985
Pascual Sánchez
movieViaje al paraíso
1985
Pajarito
movieMasacre en el río Tula
1985
El Mulato
tvLa traición
1984
Cholo
movieLuna de sangre
1984
Coco Loco
movieCarnival Night
1984
Jincho
movieFuego en el mar
1981
Manuel
movieCaboblanco
1980
Hernandez
movieEagle's Wing
1979
Lame Wolf
movieThe Holy War
1979
Celso Dominguez
movieCananea
1978
Manuel Diéguez
movieWho'll Stop the Rain
1978
Galindez
movieThe Year of the Plague
1978
Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
movieRattlesnake
1977
Tomás
movieEl elegido
1977
Judas
movieThe Bricklayers
1976
Jacinto Martínez
movieThe Heist
1976
El Carajo
movieLetters from Marusia
1975
Argandoña
movieEl valle de los miserables
1975
Tío Chinto
movieSimon Blanco
1975
Lic. Cardoso
movieThe Dogs of God
1974
Javier Ortega / Priest / Man on the street
movieThey Call Him Marcado
1971
el Manco
movieThe Scapular
1968
Ruiz, soldado
movieBlack Wind
1965
Pablo Penagos