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
El Garabato (2008)
as Commander Carmona
Toña Machetes (1985)
Actor
Violent Stories (1985)
Actor
Los hijos de Sanchez (1978)
Actor
Wandering Lives (1987)
as Francisco
Guadalupe (2006)
Actor
Tigers (2020)
as Pascual el Viejo
Under the Shrapnel (1983)
as Martin
Tear This Heart Out (2008)
as Soriano
Major Dundee (1965)
as Riago
Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
as Galindez
La Casa de los Amantes (2007)
as Charly
Occupation of Darkness (1981)
Actor
Viaje Aterrador (2002)
as Alejandro
Crossing the Desert (2012)
as Don Prudencio
Salvador (1986)
as Archbishop Romero
Luna de sangre (1984)
as Coco Loco
Simon Blanco (1975)
as Lic. Cardoso
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
as Brave
His Most Serene Highness (2000)
as Máximo Huerta
Las perversiones del padre José (2003)
Actor
Rattlesnake (1977)
as Tomás
24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver (2007)
Actor
Tell Me When (2020)
Actor
Jasmine blossoms (1996)
as Don Ramón
Snake Skin (2002)
Actor
The Children of Sanchez (1978)
Actor
The Miracle (2003)
Actor
Stormmaker (2018)
Actor
Hope (1988)
as General
Cruz de navajas (2008)
Actor
Caboblanco (1980)
as Hernandez
Eagle's Wing (1979)
as Lame Wolf
For Better or for Worse (1989)
as Choirboy
Tribus Urbanas (2006)
Actor
Goitia: A God for Himself (1989)
as Goitia
Letters from Marusia (1975)
as Argandoña
The Year of the Plague (1978)
as Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
Masacre en el río Tula (1985)
as El Mulato
La muerte de Pancho Villa (1974)
Actor
The Dogs of God (1974)
as Javier Ortega / Priest / Man on the street
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell (1986)
as Guillermo
Three of Cups (1986)
as Narrator
El valle de los miserables (1975)
as Tío Chinto
The Heist (1976)
as El Carajo
La posada (2023)
as Carlos
Fuego en el mar (1981)
as Manuel
El Mil Usos II (1984)
Actor
La jaula de la muerte (1990)
as Enrique
CARNAL (2021)
as Gonzalo
One for the Road (2015)
as Emiliano
Astucia (1986)
as Tendero
Suave Patria (2012)
as Jeronimo Natage
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III) (1994)
Actor
El lado oscuro de la luz (2013)
Actor
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra! (1976)
Actor
A Christmas Carol (1989)
Actor
They Call Him Marcado (1971)
as el Manco
Valentín de la Sierra (1968)
Actor
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata (1993)
as Don Severo
Zapata en Chinameca (1987)
as Urbano Martínez
Black Wind (1965)
as Pablo Penagos
Emiliano Zapata (1970)
Actor
The House in the South (1976)
as Peasant
The Bricklayers (1976)
as Jacinto Martínez
Reto a la vida (1988)
as Doctor
Reclusorio III (1999)
Actor
Mundo mágico (1983)
Actor
The Wrath of a God (1988)
Actor
Curandero (2005)
as Don Carlos
The Scapular (1968)
as Ruiz, soldado
Más allá del muro (2009)
Actor
Operation Marihuana (1985)
Actor
Intriga contra México (1988)
Actor
El estudiante (2009)
as Don Pedro
El mil usos (1981)
Actor
Cananea (1978)
as Manuel Diéguez
Warehoused (2015)
as Mr. Lino
Carnival Night (1984)
as Jincho
Buddah's Head (2009)
as Invitado 3
Two Crimes (1995)
as Ramón
Morenita: el escándalo (2009)
as Obispo
La mujer policía (1987)
Actor
Robachicos (1986)
Actor
The Scent of Death (1987)
as Mr. López
Benjamín (2002)
Actor
El extensionista (1991)
as Manuela
The Holy War (1979)
as Celso Dominguez
Contrabando y muerte (1986)
Actor
El elegido (1977)
as Judas
Viaje al paraíso (1985)
as Pajarito