José Carlos Ruiz

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

Gonzalo

CARNAL

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!

Un cuento de Navidad

Tomás

Cascabel

Archbishop Romero

Salvador

Benjamín

La mujer policía

Narrator

El tres de copas

Pajarito

Viaje al paraíso

Robachicos

Tendero

Astucia

Guillermo

El maleficio 2: Los enviados del infierno

Don Pedro

El estudiante

Emiliano Zapata

Commander Carmona

El Garabato

Operacion marihuana

Tribus Urbanas

Riago

Major Dundee

Benito Sánchez

El extensionista

Manuela

El extensionista

el Manco

Los Marcados

Lic. Cardoso

Simón Blanco

24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver

Jeronimo Natage

Suave Patria

Cruz de navajas

Obispo

Morenita: el escándalo

El Carajo

El Apando

Jincho

Noche de carnaval

La muerte de Pancho Villa

Don Carlos

Curandero

Martin

Bajo la metralla

El Mulato

Masacre en el río Tula

La furia de un dios

De piel de víbora

El lado oscuro de la luz

Emiliano

En el último trago

El milagro

Brave

Buck and the Preacher

Invitado 3

Cabeza de Buda

Don Ramón

De Jazmín en Flor

Celso Dominguez

La Guerra Santa

Máximo Huerta

Su alteza serenísima

Ramón

Dos crímenes

Guadalupe

Francisco

Vidas Errantes

Mr. Lino

Almacenados

Goitia

Goitia, un dios para sí mismo

General

Эсперанса

Pascual el Viejo

Tigres

Más allá del muro

Lame Wolf

Eagle's Wing

Galindez

Who'll Stop the Rain

Pablo Penagos

Viento negro

Tormentero

Enrique

La jaula de la muerte

Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)

Jacinto Martínez

Los albañiles

Urbano Martínez

Zapata en Chinameca

Manuel

Fuego en el mar

Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo

El año de la peste

El mil usos

El Mil Usos II

Oficio de tinieblas

Valentín de la Sierra

Mundo mágico

Judas

El elegido

Historias violentas

Intriga contra México

Reclusorio III

Coco Loco

Luna de sangre

Contrabando y muerte

Soriano

Arráncame la Vida

Doctor

Reto a la vida

Dime cuando tú

The Children of Sanchez

Manuel Diéguez

Cananea

Toña Machetes

Choirboy

Honeymoon Academy

Tío Chinto

El valle de los miserables

Don Severo

Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata

Ruiz, soldado

El escapulario

Don Prudencio

Travesía del Desierto

Hernandez

Caboblanco

Argandoña

Actas de Marusia

Los perros de Dios

Las perversiones del padre José

Peasant

La casa del Sur

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

87

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-11-17

Place of Birth

Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico

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