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
- De la infancia as Aguacate
- The Prodigious Teacher
- Another Mexican as Don Leodegario
2008
- Capadocia as Fernando Mirana
- Teo's Journey
2007
2006
- Bandidas as Brujo
- A Wonderful World as Compadre Filemón
- Crazy Carnival as El indio
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
- Amor de mis amores
- The Delights of Power as Carmelo Barriga
- 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
- Odio, amor y muerte
- La loteria
- Su herencia era matar
- Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata as Lucas Pereda López
- La hija del odio
- La sangre de un valiente
1992
1991
- Highway Patrolman as Comandante Navarro
- Paty chula as Mr. Gutierrez
- Latino Bar as Blind musician
- El amarrador
- El extensionista as Nazario
- Invitación a morir
- Mafia En Jalisco
- Las caguamas ninja
1990
- Sandino as Farabundo Martí
- La fuerza del amor as Don Torino
- Zone of Silence
- Chacales de la frontera
- Satanic Sect: Messenger of the Lord as Carlitos
1989
- Mi segunda madre as Nacho
- Baroque as El Indiano
- José, hijo del hombre
- They Call Me Violence as Pecador
1988
- The Marked Hour as (Varios)
- El rutas as El Perro
- All Souls' Day as Poet
- Passport to Death as Pancho the Peasant
- Neighborhood Rats as Héctor Malagón Ruiz
- La ley del ejecutor
1987
- Tal como somos as Marcelo
- Mariana Mariana as Gardener
- Los confines as Juvencio Nava
- Living Is What Matters as Lázaro
- Zapata en Chinameca as Pancracio Rodríguez
1986
- El padre Gallo as Padre Gallo
- El puente II
- Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
- The Realm of Fortune as Dionisio Pinzón
- Crónica de familia
1985
1984
- The Evil That Men Do as Café Owner
- Las Lupitas as José, el Carnicero
- Figuras de la pasión
- Arizona
- Nosotros los pelados as Don Seve
1983
- Erendira as Grocer
- El Norte as Arturo
- Desires
- Mundo mágico
- Guerrillero Del Norte
1982
- Cosa fácil as Gilberto Gómez
- The Eve as Manuel Miranda
- A Married Woman as Guillermo
- La combi asesina as Capitan de la Cruz
- Días de Combate as Gilberto Gómez Letras
- La guerra es un buen negocio
- Los gemelos alborotados
- In the Land of Light Feet as Benito
1981
- Trail of Death as Torres
- Everyone's Hell So Feared
- Long live Tepito! as Chucho / Jesús Ramírez
- Visita al Pasado as Benito Juárez
- Pueblo de Boquilla
- The Sowing of Others
1979
- Life Sentence as Corporal Pantoja
- The Widow of Montiel as Carmichael
- La madre
- Roots of Blood
- En la cuerda del hambre
1978
1977
- Rattlesnake as Chankin
- The Mongol Plot as Licenciado
- Maten al León as Salvador Pereira
- Caminando pasos... caminando
1976
1975
- Tivoli as engineer Reginaldo
- El valle de los miserables as Comandante López
- Letters from Marusia as Crisculo
- The Coming of the King Olmos as Barber
- La derrota
- Auandar Anapu as Auándar Anapu
1974
- La muerte de Pancho Villa
- Those Years as Guillermo Prieto
- El primer paso... de la mujer
- Peregrina
1973
- Uno Y Medio Contra El Mundo
- The Prophet Mimi as Hermano Mackenzie
1972
- Tú, yo, nosotros as Black outlaw
- Tacos al Carbon as Uncredited
- Reed: Insurgent Mexico as Pablo Seanez
- Los perturbados as El Cacomistle (segment "La Obsesión")
- Los Cacos as Arturo
- Cayó de la gloria el diablo as Chester
1971
- La Generala as Cómplice de Feliciano
- Sin salida
- El águila descalza as Trabajador factoria
- There's Always a First Time as Hilario (segment "Rosa")
- The Gates of Paradise
1970
- El Quelite as Gavillero
- Emiliano Zapata
1969
- The Surprise as Ballesteros
- Love Traps
1967
- The Outsiders as El Azteca