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
All Movies (91)
- La posada2023 · as Carlos
- CARNAL2021 · as Gonzalo
- Tell Me When2020
- Tigers2020 · as Pascual el Viejo
- Stormmaker2017
- Warehoused2015 · as Mr. Lino
- One for the Road2015 · as Emiliano
- El lado oscuro de la luz2013
- Suave Patria2012 · as Jeronimo Natage
- Crossing the Desert2012 · as Don Prudencio
- El estudiante2009 · as Don Pedro
- Buddah's Head2009 · as Invitado 3
- Morenita: el escándalo2009 · as Obispo
- Más allá del muro2009
- Tear This Heart Out2008 · as Soriano
- Cruz de navajas2008
- El Garabato2008 · as Commander Carmona
- 24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver2007
- Guadalupe2006
- Tribus Urbanas2006
- Curandero2005 · as Don Carlos
- The Miracle2003
- Las perversiones del padre José2003
- Benjamín2002
- Snake Skin2002
- Viaje Aterrador2002 · as Alejandro
- His Most Serene Highness2000 · as Máximo Huerta
- Reclusorio III1999
- Jasmine blossoms1996 · as Don Ramón
- Two Crimes1995 · as Ramón
- Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)1994
- Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata1993 · as Don Severo
- El extensionista1991 · as Manuela
- El extensionista1991 · as Benito Sánchez
- La jaula de la muerte1990 · as Enrique
- For Better or for Worse1989 · as Choirboy
- A Christmas Carol1989
- Goitia: A God for Himself1989 · as Goitia
- Hope1988 · as General
- The Wrath of a God1988
- Reto a la vida1988 · as Doctor
- Intriga contra México1988
- The Scent of Death1987 · as Mr. López
- Zapata en Chinameca1987 · as Urbano Martínez
- Wandering Lives1987 · as Francisco
- La mujer policía1987
- Contrabando y muerte1986
- Astucia1986 · as Tendero
- The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell1986 · as Guillermo
- Salvador1986 · as Archbishop Romero
- Three of Cups1986 · as Narrator
- Robachicos1986
- Viaje al paraíso1985 · as Pajarito
- Violent Stories1985
- Masacre en el río Tula1985 · as El Mulato
- Toña Machetes1985
- Operation Marihuana1985
- El Mil Usos II1984
- Luna de sangre1984 · as Coco Loco
- Carnival Night1984 · as Jincho
- Mundo mágico1983
- Under the Shrapnel1983 · as Martin
- Fuego en el mar1981 · as Manuel
- Occupation of Darkness1981
- El mil usos1981
- Caboblanco1980 · as Hernandez
- Eagle's Wing1979 · as Lame Wolf
- The Holy War1979 · as Celso Dominguez
- Los hijos de Sanchez1978
- Cananea1978 · as Manuel Diéguez
- Who'll Stop the Rain1978 · as Galindez
- The Children of Sanchez1978
- The Year of the Plague1978 · as Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
- Rattlesnake1977 · as Tomás
- El elegido1977 · as Judas
- The Bricklayers1976 · as Jacinto Martínez
- The Heist1976 · as El Carajo
- The House in the South1976 · as Peasant
- Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!1976
- Letters from Marusia1975 · as Argandoña
- El valle de los miserables1975 · as Tío Chinto
- Simon Blanco1975 · as Lic. Cardoso
- The Dogs of God1974 · as Javier Ortega / Priest / Man on the street
- La muerte de Pancho Villa1974
- Buck and the Preacher1972 · as Brave
- They Call Him Marcado1971 · as el Manco
- Emiliano Zapata1970
- Valentín de la Sierra1968
- The Scapular1968 · as Ruiz, soldado
- Black Wind1965 · as Pablo Penagos
- Major Dundee1965 · as Riago
All TV Shows (17)
- Laws of love2018 · as Armando
- Wild at Heart2013 · as Padre Julián
- Soy tu dueña2010 · as Sabino Mercado
- Sortilegio2009 · as Chucho
- Killer Women2008 · as Comandante Quiroz
- Storm Over Paradise2007 · as Ahzac
- Amar sin límites2006 · as Don Aurelio Huerta
- Dark Fate2003 · as Isidro Valtierra
- Las Vías del Amor2002 · as Fidel Gutiérrez Arismendi
- Atrévete a Olvidarme2001 · as Cecilio Rabadán
- La casa en la playa2000 · as Severo Rincón
- Soñadoras1998 · as Don Eugenio de la Peña
- María Isabel1997 · as Pedro
- Pueblo chico, infierno grande1997 · as Arcadio
- Morir dos veces1996 · as Orduña
- Muchachita1985 · as Pascual Sánchez
- La traición1984 · as Cholo