José Carlos Ruiz
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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
Major Dundee (1965)
as Riago
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
as Brave
Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
as Galindez
Tear This Heart Out (2008)
as Soriano
La Casa de los Amantes (2007)
as Charly
Salvador (1986)
as Archbishop Romero
Caboblanco (1980)
as Hernandez
Toña Machetes (1985)
Actor
Violent Stories (1985)
Actor
Eagle's Wing (1979)
as Lame Wolf
Tigers (2020)
as Pascual el Viejo
Tribus Urbanas (2006)
Actor
For Better or for Worse (1989)
as Choirboy
The Children of Sanchez (1978)
Actor
Letters from Marusia (1975)
as Argandoña
Goitia: A God for Himself (1989)
as Goitia
Los hijos de Sanchez (1978)
Actor
The Year of the Plague (1978)
as Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
Simon Blanco (1975)
as Lic. Cardoso
El valle de los miserables (1975)
as Tío Chinto
Three of Cups (1986)
as Narrator
Wandering Lives (1987)
as Francisco
Tell Me When (2020)
Actor
Rattlesnake (1977)
as Tomás
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III) (1994)
Actor
El Garabato (2008)
as Commander Carmona
The Miracle (2003)
Actor
Viaje Aterrador (2002)
as Alejandro
Buddah's Head (2009)
as Invitado 3
Masacre en el río Tula (1985)
as El Mulato
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra! (1976)
Actor
Benjamín (2002)
Actor
Snake Skin (2002)
Actor
The Bricklayers (1976)
as Jacinto Martínez
The Dogs of God (1974)
as Javier Ortega / Priest / Man on the street
The Wrath of a God (1988)
Actor
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell (1986)
as Guillermo
Fuego en el mar (1981)
as Manuel
El Mil Usos II (1984)
Actor
Más allá del muro (2009)
Actor
Guadalupe (2006)
Actor
One for the Road (2015)
as Emiliano
Viaje al paraíso (1985)
as Pajarito
Las perversiones del padre José (2003)
Actor
La posada (2023)
as Carlos
Jasmine blossoms (1996)
as Don Ramón
La muerte de Pancho Villa (1974)
Actor
24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver (2007)
Actor
The Scent of Death (1987)
as Mr. López
Valentín de la Sierra (1968)
Actor
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata (1993)
as Don Severo
El lado oscuro de la luz (2013)
Actor
The House in the South (1976)
as Peasant
Suave Patria (2012)
as Jeronimo Natage
CARNAL (2021)
as Gonzalo
Occupation of Darkness (1981)
Actor
They Call Him Marcado (1971)
as el Manco
Curandero (2005)
as Don Carlos
Hope (1988)
as General
Two Crimes (1995)
as Ramón
His Most Serene Highness (2000)
as Máximo Huerta
Cananea (1978)
as Manuel Diéguez
Emiliano Zapata (1970)
Actor
Reto a la vida (1988)
as Doctor
El estudiante (2009)
as Don Pedro
Crossing the Desert (2012)
as Don Prudencio
The Scapular (1968)
as Ruiz, soldado
A Christmas Carol (1989)
Actor
La jaula de la muerte (1990)
as Enrique
Under the Shrapnel (1983)
as Martin
The Heist (1976)
as El Carajo
Stormmaker (2017)
Actor
Reclusorio III (1999)
Actor
Morenita: el escándalo (2009)
as Obispo
Zapata en Chinameca (1987)
as Urbano Martínez
El extensionista (1991)
as Benito Sánchez
Black Wind (1965)
as Pablo Penagos
El mil usos (1981)
Actor
Cruz de navajas (2008)
Actor
Astucia (1986)
as Tendero
Operation Marihuana (1985)
Actor
Luna de sangre (1984)
as Coco Loco
La mujer policía (1987)
Actor
Warehoused (2015)
as Mr. Lino
Mundo mágico (1983)
Actor
Intriga contra México (1988)
Actor
El elegido (1977)
as Judas
Contrabando y muerte (1986)
Actor
Robachicos (1986)
Actor
Carnival Night (1984)
as Jincho
The Holy War (1979)
as Celso Dominguez