José Carlos Ruiz
Born: 1936-11-17 in Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2023
- La posada as Carlos
2021
- CARNAL as Gonzalo
2020
- Tell Me When
- Tigers as Pascual el Viejo
2018
- Laws of love as Armando
2017
2015
- One for the Road as Emiliano
- Warehoused as Mr. Lino
2013
- Wild at Heart as Padre Julián
- El lado oscuro de la luz
2012
- Suave Patria as Jeronimo Natage
- Crossing the Desert as Don Prudencio
2010
- Soy tu dueña as Sabino Mercado
2009
- Sortilegio as Chucho
- El estudiante as Don Pedro
- Buddah's Head as Invitado 3
- Morenita: el escándalo as Obispo
- Más allá del muro
2008
- Killer Women as Comandante Quiroz
- Tear This Heart Out as Soriano
- El Garabato as Commander Carmona
- Cruz de navajas
2007
2006
- Amar sin límites as Don Aurelio Huerta
- Guadalupe
- Tribus Urbanas
2005
- Curandero as Don Carlos
2003
- Dark Fate as Isidro Valtierra
- Las perversiones del padre José
- The Miracle
2002
- Las Vías del Amor as Fidel Gutiérrez Arismendi
- Snake Skin
- Benjamín
- Viaje Aterrador as Alejandro
2001
- Atrévete a Olvidarme as Cecilio Rabadán
2000
- La casa en la playa as Severo Rincón
- His Most Serene Highness as Máximo Huerta
1999
1998
- Soñadoras as Don Eugenio de la Peña
1997
- María Isabel as Pedro
- Pueblo chico, infierno grande as Arcadio
1996
- Morir dos veces as Orduña
- Jasmine blossoms as Don Ramón
1995
- Two Crimes as Ramón
1993
- Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata as Don Severo
1991
- El extensionista as Manuela
1990
- La jaula de la muerte as Enrique
1989
- Honeymoon Academy as Choirboy
- Goitia: A God for Himself as Goitia
- A Christmas Carol
1988
- Hope as General
- The Wrath of a God
- Reto a la vida as Doctor
- Intriga contra México
1987
- Wandering Lives as Francisco
- The Scent of Death as Mr. López
- Zapata en Chinameca as Urbano Martínez
- La mujer policía
1986
- Salvador as Archbishop Romero
- Astucia as Tendero
- Three of Cups as Narrator
- The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell as Guillermo
- Robachicos
- Contrabando y muerte
1985
- Violent Stories
- Masacre en el río Tula as El Mulato
- Muchachita as Pascual Sánchez
- Viaje al paraíso as Pajarito
- Toña Machetes
- Operation Marihuana
1984
- La traición as Cholo
- El Mil Usos II
- Luna de sangre as Coco Loco
- Carnival Night as Jincho
1983
- Mundo mágico
- Under the Shrapnel as Martin
1981
- El mil usos
- Fuego en el mar as Manuel
- Occupation of Darkness
1980
- Caboblanco as Hernandez
1979
- Eagle's Wing as Lame Wolf
- The Holy War as Celso Dominguez
1978
- Who'll Stop the Rain as Galindez
- The Children of Sanchez
- The Year of the Plague as Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
- Cananea as Manuel Diéguez
- Los hijos de Sanchez
1977
- Rattlesnake as Tomás
- El elegido as Judas
1976
- The Bricklayers as Jacinto Martínez
- The Heist as El Carajo
- Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
- The House in the South as Peasant
1975
- El valle de los miserables as Tío Chinto
- Letters from Marusia as Argandoña
- Simon Blanco as Lic. Cardoso
1974
- La muerte de Pancho Villa
- The Dogs of God as Javier Ortega / Priest / Man on the street
1972
- Buck and the Preacher as Brave
1971
- They Call Him Marcado as el Manco
1970
1968
- Valentín de la Sierra
- The Scapular as Ruiz, soldado
1965
- Major Dundee as Riago
- Black Wind as Pablo Penagos