Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Born: 1933-11-08 in Puerto de Veracruz, Mexico
Died: 2024-04-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
Ernesto Gómez Cruz (November 8, 1933 - April 6, 2024) was a prolific Mexican actor with more than 154 films. In his beginnings, he began as a photographer in his native Veracruz, where he met a friend who invited him to study dramatic art. In his notes from yesterday, he mentions that he wanted to be a singer, but his shyness and lack of preparation led him to abandon this path. He has more than two hundred films to his credit. He has worked with great directors such as Miguel Littin, Felipe Cazals, Arturo Ripstein and Luis Estrada; He has also worked with actors of the stature of Damián Alcázar, Ignacio López Tarso and Pedro Armendáriz Jr., among others. His long artistic career has allowed him to be deserving and awarded with different recognitions; one of the most recent was in 2014, at the 56th Ariel award, where he was awarded the Ariel de Oro. He is the second Mexican actor with the most Ariel awards and nominations. In 2018 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially invited him to be a special part of its new members.
Filmography
2025
- Tespis Teporocho as Tespis
2018
- Laws of love as Plutarco
- The Cousin as Cacique gordo
2017
2016
- Hasta que te conocí as Juan "Juanito" Contreras
- Juan Diego: El indio de Guadalupe as Juan Bernardino
2014
- The Perfect Dictatorship as Señor Humilde
- Familia Gang
- A Shred Of Mist as Doctor
2013
- Las Armas as Gobernador Giner
2011
- Mudstained Flower as Don Trini
- El lado oscuro de la noche as Papá Valeria
- Así es la Suerte as Esposo de Lidia
2010
- El Infierno as Don José Reyes
- Another Mexican as Don Leodegario
- The Prodigious Teacher
- De la infancia as Aguacate
2008
- Capadocia as Fernando Mirana
- Teo's Journey
2007
2006
- Bandidas as Brujo
- Crazy Carnival as El indio
- A Wonderful World as Compadre Filemón
2004
- Santos Peregrinos as Don Emiliano
2002
- Las Lunas del Auditorio as Self
- The Crime of Padre Amaro as Obispo
2001
- The Mexican as Tropillo
- Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good as Sobrino
2000
- Cháman, viento de muerte
- 13 Días antes de vivir as Fiscal Especial
1999
- Herod's Law as Gobernador
- Las delicias del poder as Carmelo Barriga
- Amor de mis amores
- Para matar al presidente
1997
1995
- María José as Serafín
- Midaq Alley as Don Ru
- Una papa sin catsup
- The Human Hyena
1994
- El vuelo del águila as Benito Juárez
- Ya la hicimos
- The Throne of Hell as The Wizard
- Una buena forma de morir
- Vagabunda as Don Melitón
1993
- The Stork's Mistake as Don Cosme
- Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata as Lucas Pereda López
- Odio, amor y muerte
- La hija del odio
- Su herencia era matar
- La sangre de un valiente
- La loteria
1992
1991
- El extensionista as Nazario
- Highway Patrolman as Comandante Navarro
- Las caguamas ninja
- Paty chula as Mr. Gutierrez
- Invitación a morir
- El amarrador
- Mafia En Jalisco
- Latino Bar as Blind musician
1990
- La fuerza del amor as Don Torino
- Sandino as Farabundo Martí
- Chacales de la frontera
- Satanic Sect: Messenger of the Lord as Carlitos
- Zone of Silence
1989
- Mi segunda madre as Nacho
- Baroque as El Indiano
- They Call Me Violence as Pecador
- José, hijo del hombre
1988
- The Marked Hour as (Varios)
- La ley del ejecutor
- El rutas as El Perro
- Passport to Death as Pancho the Peasant
- Neighborhood Rats as Héctor Malagón Ruiz
- All Souls' Day as Poet
1987
- Mariana Mariana as Gardener
- Tal como somos as Marcelo
- Zapata en Chinameca as Pancracio Rodríguez
- Los confines as Juvencio Nava
- Living Is What Matters as Lázaro
1986
- The Realm of Fortune as Dionisio Pinzón
- El padre Gallo as Padre Gallo
- Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
- El puente II
- Crónica de familia
1985
1984
- The Evil That Men Do as Café Owner
- Figuras de la pasión
- Arizona
- Las Lupitas as José, el Carnicero
- Nosotros los pelados as Don Seve
1983
- El Norte as Arturo
- Erendira as Grocer
- Desires
- Guerrillero Del Norte
- Mundo mágico
1982
- Cosa fácil as Gilberto Gómez
- A Married Woman as Guillermo
- The Eve as Manuel Miranda
- La combi asesina as Capitan de la Cruz
- In the Land of Light Feet as Benito
- Días de Combate as Gilberto Gómez Letras
- Los gemelos alborotados
- La guerra es un buen negocio
1981
- Long live Tepito! as Chucho / Jesús Ramírez
- Visita al Pasado as Benito Juárez
- Everyone's Hell So Feared
- The Sowing of Others
- Pueblo de Boquilla
- Trail of Death as Torres
1979
- Life Sentence as Corporal Pantoja
- Roots of Blood
- En la cuerda del hambre
- The Widow of Montiel as Carmichael
- La madre
1978
1977
- The Mongol Plot as Licenciado
- Rattlesnake as Chankin
- Maten al León as Salvador Pereira
- Caminando pasos... caminando
1976
1975
- Tivoli as engineer Reginaldo
- Letters from Marusia as Crisculo
- The Coming of the King Olmos as Barber
- El valle de los miserables as Comandante López
- Auandar Anapu as Auándar Anapu
1974
- Those Years as Guillermo Prieto
- El primer paso... de la mujer
- La muerte de Pancho Villa
- Peregrina
1973
- The Prophet Mimi as Hermano Mackenzie
- Uno Y Medio Contra El Mundo
- La derrota
1972
- Tacos al Carbon as Uncredited
- Los perturbados as El Cacomistle (segment "La Obsesión")
- Los Cacos as Arturo
- Reed: Insurgent Mexico as Pablo Seanez
- Tú, yo, nosotros as Black outlaw
- Cayó de la gloria el diablo as Chester
1971
- La Generala as Cómplice de Feliciano
- El águila descalza as Trabajador factoria
- Sin salida
- The Gates of Paradise
- There's Always a First Time as Hilario (segment "Rosa")
1970
- Emiliano Zapata
- El Quelite as Gavillero
1969
- Love Traps
- The Surprise as Ballesteros
1967
- The Outsiders as El Azteca