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
- A Shred Of Mist as Doctor
- The Perfect Dictatorship as Señor Humilde
- Familia Gang
2013
- Las Armas as Gobernador Giner
2011
- El lado oscuro de la noche as Papá Valeria
- Mudstained Flower as Don Trini
- Así es la Suerte as Esposo de Lidia
2010
- El Infierno as Don José Reyes
- Another Mexican as Don Leodegario
- De la infancia as Aguacate
- The Prodigious Teacher
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
- Inaudito
- 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
- The Human Hyena
- Una papa sin catsup
1994
- El vuelo del águila as Benito Juárez
- Ya la hicimos
- Una buena forma de morir
- Vagabunda as Don Melitón
- The Throne of Hell as The Wizard
1993
- Odio, amor y muerte
- The Stork's Mistake as Don Cosme
- Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata as Lucas Pereda López
- La sangre de un valiente
- La hija del odio
- La loteria
- Su herencia era matar
1992
1991
- Mafia En Jalisco
- El amarrador
- Latino Bar as Blind musician
- Paty chula as Mr. Gutierrez
- Highway Patrolman as Comandante Navarro
- Invitación a morir
- El extensionista as Nazario
- Las caguamas ninja
1990
- La fuerza del amor as Don Torino
- Sandino as Farabundo Martí
- Chacales de la frontera
- Zone of Silence
- 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
- Neighborhood Rats as Héctor Malagón Ruiz
- La ley del ejecutor
- All Souls' Day as Poet
- Passport to Death as Pancho the Peasant
1987
- Tal como somos as Marcelo
- Mariana Mariana as Gardener
- Los confines as Juvencio Nava
- Zapata en Chinameca as Pancracio Rodríguez
- Living Is What Matters as Lázaro
1986
- El padre Gallo as Padre Gallo
- The Realm of Fortune as Dionisio Pinzón
- El puente II
- Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
- Crónica de familia
1985
1984
- The Evil That Men Do as Café Owner
- Las Lupitas as José, el Carnicero
- Figuras de la pasión
- Nosotros los pelados as Don Seve
- Arizona
1983
- Erendira as Grocer
- Desires
- El Norte as Arturo
- Guerrillero Del Norte
- Mundo mágico
1982
- American Playhouse as Arturo
- Cosa fácil as Gilberto Gómez
- Días de Combate as Gilberto Gómez Letras
- The Eve as Manuel Miranda
- La combi asesina as Capitan de la Cruz
- Los gemelos alborotados
- In the Land of Light Feet as Benito
- Tiempo de lobos
- A Married Woman as Guillermo
- La guerra es un buen negocio
1981
- Pueblo de Boquilla
- Trail of Death as Torres
- Visita al Pasado as Benito Juárez
- Everyone's Hell So Feared
- Long live Tepito! as Chucho / Jesús Ramírez
- The Sowing of Others
1979
- La madre
- Life Sentence as Corporal Pantoja
- The Widow of Montiel as Carmichael
- Roots of Blood
- En la cuerda del hambre
1978
1977
- Rattlesnake as Chankin
- The Mongol Plot as Licenciado
- Caminando pasos... caminando
- Maten al León as Salvador Pereira
1976
1975
- Tivoli as engineer Reginaldo
- Letters from Marusia as Crisculo
- Auandar Anapu as Auándar Anapu
- El valle de los miserables as Comandante López
- The Coming of the King Olmos as Barber
- La derrota
1974
- Those Years as Guillermo Prieto
- La muerte de Pancho Villa
- Peregrina
- El primer paso... de la mujer
1973
- Uno Y Medio Contra El Mundo
- The Prophet Mimi as Hermano Mackenzie
1972
- Tú, yo, nosotros as Black outlaw
- Reed: Insurgent Mexico as Pablo Seanez
- Tacos al Carbon as Uncredited
- Cayó de la gloria el diablo as Chester
- Los perturbados as El Cacomistle (segment "La Obsesión")
- Los Cacos as Arturo
1971
- La Generala as Cómplice de Feliciano
- There's Always a First Time as Hilario (segment "Rosa")
- The Gates of Paradise
- El águila descalza as Trabajador factoria
- Sin salida
1970
- El Quelite as Gavillero
- Emiliano Zapata
1969
- The Surprise as Ballesteros
- Love Traps
1967
- The Outsiders as El Azteca