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