José Carlos Ruiz
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
- 2021 · CARNAL as Gonzalo
- 2020 · Tell Me When as
- 2020 · Tigers as Pascual el Viejo
- 2018 · Laws of love as Armando
- 2017 · Stormmaker as
- 2015 · Warehoused as Mr. Lino
- 2015 · One for the Road as Emiliano
- 2013 · Dark Side of the Light as
- 2013 · Wild at Heart as Padre Julián
- 2012 · Suave Patria as Jeronimo Natage
- 2012 · Crossing the Desert as Don Prudencio
- 2010 · Soy tu dueña as Sabino Mercado
- 2009 · El estudiante as Don Pedro
- 2009 · Sortilegio as Chucho
- 2009 · Buddah's Head as Invitado 3
- 2009 · Morenita, El Escandalo as Obispo
- 2009 · Más allá del muro as
- 2008 · Tear This Heart Out as Soriano
- 2008 · Killer Women as Comandante Quiroz
- 2008 · Cruz de navajas as
- 2008 · El Garabato as Commander Carmona
- 2007 · Storm over Paradise as Ahzac
- 2007 · 24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver as
- 2006 · Guadalupe as
- 2006 · Amar sin límites as Don Aurelio Huerta
- 2006 · Tribus Urbanas as
- 2005 · Curandero as Don Carlos
- 2003 · The Miracle as
- 2003 · Dark Fate as Isidro Valtierra
- 2002 · Las Vías del Amor as Fidel Gutiérrez Arismendi
- 2002 · Benjamín as
- 2002 · Snake Skin as
- 2001 · Atrévete a Olvidarme as Cecilio Rabadán
- 2000 · His Most Serene Highness as Máximo Huerta
- 2000 · La casa en la playa as Severo Rincón
- 1999 · Reclusorio III as
- 1998 · Soñadoras as Don Eugenio de la Peña
- 1997 · María Isabel as Pedro
- 1997 · Pueblo chico, infierno grande as Arcadio
- 1996 · Jasmine blossoms as Don Ramón
- 1996 · Morir dos veces as Orduña
- 1995 · Two Crimes as Ramón
- 1994 · Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III) as
- 1993 · Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata as Don Severo
- 1991 · El extensionista as Manuela
- 1991 · El extensionista as Benito Sánchez
- 1990 · The Cage of Death as
- 1989 · Honeymoon Academy as Choirboy
- 1989 · A Christmas Carol as
- 1989 · Goitia: A God for Himself as Goitia
- 1988 · Hope as General
- 1988 · The Wrath of a God as
- 1988 · Reto a la vida as Doctor
- 1988 · Intriga contra México as
- 1987 · Zapata en Chinameca as Urbano Martínez
- 1987 · La mujer policía as
- 1986 · Contrabando y muerte as
- 1986 · Astucia as Tendero
- 1986 · The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell as Guillermo
- 1986 · Salvador as Archbishop Romero
- 1986 · Three of Cups as Narrator
- 1986 · Robachicos as
- 1985 · Wandering Lives as Francisco
- 1985 · Viaje al paraíso as Pajarito
- 1985 · Violent Stories as
- 1985 · Masacre en el río Tula as El Mulato
- 1985 · Toña Machetes as
- 1985 · Operacion marihuana as
- 1984 · El Mil Usos II as
- 1984 · Luna de sangre as Coco Loco
- 1984 · Noche de carnaval as Jincho
- 1983 · Mundo mágico as
- 1983 · Under the Shrapnel as Martin
- 1981 · Fuego en el mar as Manuel
- 1981 · Oficio de tinieblas as
- 1981 · El mil usos as
- 1980 · Cabo Blanco as Hernandez
- 1979 · Eagle's Wing as Lame Wolf
- 1979 · The Holy War as Celso Dominguez
- 1978 · Cananea as Manuel Diéguez
- 1978 · Who'll Stop the Rain as Galindez
- 1978 · The Children of Sanchez as
- 1978 · The Year of the Plague as Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
- 1977 · Rattlesnake as Tomás
- 1977 · El elegido as Judas
- 1976 · The Bricklayers as Jacinto Martínez
- 1976 · The Heist as El Carajo
- 1976 · Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra! as
- 1975 · Letters from Marusia as Argandoña
- 1975 · El valle de los miserables as Tío Chinto
- 1975 · Simon Blanco as Lic. Cardoso
- 1974 · La muerte de Pancho Villa as
- 1972 · Buck and the Preacher as Brave
- 1971 · They Call Him Marcado as el Manco
- 1970 · Emiliano Zapata as
- 1968 · Valentín de la Sierra as
- 1968 · The Scapular as Ruiz, soldado
- 1965 · Black Wind as Pablo Penagos
- 1965 · Major Dundee as Riago