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