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