Name
José Carlos Ruiz
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1936-11-17 (90 years old)
Place of Birth
Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico
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
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A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man....
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After his grandfather's death, a young man decides to fulfill his elder's last wish with t...
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A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a...
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Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to ...
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During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious t...
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- 2021 CARNAL as Gonzalo
- 1976 Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
- 1989 A Christmas Carol
- 1977 Rattlesnake as Tomás
- 1986 Salvador as Archbishop Romero
- 2002 Benjamín
- 1987 La mujer policía
- 1986 Three of Cups as Narrator
- 1985 Viaje al paraíso as Pajarito
- 1986 Robachicos
- 1986 Astucia as Tendero
- 1986 The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell as Guillermo
- 2009 El estudiante as Don Pedro
- 1970 Emiliano Zapata
- 2008 El Garabato as Commander Carmona
- 1985 Operation Marihuana
- 2006 Tribus Urbanas
- 1965 Major Dundee as Riago
- 1991 El extensionista as Benito Sánchez
- 1991 El extensionista as Manuela
- 1971 They Call Him Marcado as el Manco
- 1975 Simon Blanco as Lic. Cardoso
- 2007 24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
- 2012 Suave Patria as Jeronimo Natage
- 2008 Cruz de navajas
- 2009 Morenita: el escándalo as Obispo
- 1976 The Heist as El Carajo
- 1984 Carnival Night as Jincho
- 1974 La muerte de Pancho Villa
- 2005 Curandero as Don Carlos
- 1983 Under the Shrapnel as Martin
- 1985 Masacre en el río Tula as El Mulato
- 1988 The Wrath of a God
- 2002 Snake Skin
- 2013 El lado oscuro de la luz
- 2015 One for the Road as Emiliano
- 2003 The Miracle
- 1972 Buck and the Preacher as Brave
- 2009 Buddah's Head as Invitado 3
- 1996 Jasmine blossoms as Don Ramón
- 1979 The Holy War as Celso Dominguez
- 2000 His Most Serene Highness as Máximo Huerta
- 1995 Two Crimes as Ramón
- 2006 Guadalupe
- 1987 Wandering Lives as Francisco
- 2015 Warehoused as Mr. Lino
- 1989 Goitia: A God for Himself as Goitia
- 1988 Hope as General
- 2020 Tigers as Pascual el Viejo
- 2009 Más allá del muro
- 1979 Eagle's Wing as Lame Wolf
- 1978 Who'll Stop the Rain as Galindez
- 1965 Black Wind as Pablo Penagos
- 2017 Stormmaker
- 1990 La jaula de la muerte as Enrique
- 1994 Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
- 1976 The Bricklayers as Jacinto Martínez
- 1987 Zapata en Chinameca as Urbano Martínez
- 1981 Fuego en el mar as Manuel
- 1978 The Year of the Plague as Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
- 1981 El mil usos
- 1984 El Mil Usos II
- 1981 Occupation of Darkness
- 1968 Valentín de la Sierra
- 1983 Mundo mágico
- 1977 El elegido as Judas
- 1985 Violent Stories
- 1988 Intriga contra México
- 1999 Reclusorio III
- 1984 Luna de sangre as Coco Loco
- 1986 Contrabando y muerte
- 2008 Tear This Heart Out as Soriano
- 1988 Reto a la vida as Doctor
- 2020 Tell Me When
- 1978 The Children of Sanchez
- 1978 Cananea as Manuel Diéguez
- 1985 Toña Machetes
- 1989 For Better or for Worse as Choirboy
- 1975 El valle de los miserables as Tío Chinto
- 1993 Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata as Don Severo
- 1968 The Scapular as Ruiz, soldado
- 2012 Crossing the Desert as Don Prudencio
- 1980 Caboblanco as Hernandez
- 1975 Letters from Marusia as Argandoña
- 1974 The Dogs of God as Javier Ortega / Priest / Man on the street
- 2003 Las perversiones del padre José
- 1976 The House in the South as Peasant
- 2023 La posada as Carlos
- 1987 The Scent of Death as Mr. López
- 2002 Viaje Aterrador as Alejandro
- 1978 Los hijos de Sanchez
- 2008 Killer Women ( 1 episode ) as Comandante Quiroz
- 2010 Soy tu dueña ( 146 episodes ) as Sabino Mercado
- 2006 Amar sin límites ( 135 episodes ) as Don Aurelio Huerta
- 1998 Soñadoras ( 174 episodes ) as Don Eugenio de la Peña
- 1997 Pueblo chico, infierno grande ( 150 episodes ) as Arcadio
- 2018 Laws of love ( 2 episodes ) as Armando
- 1996 Morir dos veces ( 55 episodes ) as Orduña
- 2002 Las Vías del Amor ( 220 episodes ) as Fidel Gutiérrez Arismendi
- 2000 La casa en la playa ( 65 episodes ) as Severo Rincón
- 2013 Wild at Heart ( 162 episodes ) as Padre Julián
- 2001 Atrévete a Olvidarme ( 26 episodes ) as Cecilio Rabadán
- 2009 Sortilegio ( 90 episodes ) as Chucho
- 1997 María Isabel ( 125 episodes ) as Pedro
- 2007 Storm Over Paradise ( 4 episodes ) as Ahzac
- 2003 Dark Fate ( 135 episodes ) as Isidro Valtierra
- 1985 Muchachita ( 150 episodes ) as Pascual Sánchez
- 1984 La traición ( 120 episodes ) as Cholo
