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.
Acted in 113
2020s
- 2023
La posada
Carlos
- 2022
Agua de Arrayan
Movie
- 2021
CARNAL
Gonzalo
- 2020
Tigers
Pascual el Viejo
2010s
- 2018
Stormmaker
Movie
- 2015
Warehoused
Mr. Lino
One for the Road
Emiliano
- 2013
El lado oscuro de la luz
Movie
- 2012
Suave Patria
Jeronimo Natage
Crossing the Desert
Don Prudencio
- 2010
2000s
- 2009
El estudiante
Don Pedro
Buddah's Head
Invitado 3
Morenita: el escándalo
Obispo
Más allá del muro
Movie
- 2008
Tear This Heart Out
Soriano
Cruz de navajas
Movie
- 2007
Paper Cemetery
Everardo
24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
Movie
La Casa de los Amantes
Charly
- 2006
Tribus Urbanas
Movie
- 2005
- 2003
The Miracle
Movie
Las perversiones del padre José
Movie
Los muertos que nos dieron la vida
Movie
- 2002
Benjamín
Movie
Snake Skin
Movie
- 2001
Atrévete a Olvidarme
Cecilio Rabadán · 26 episodes
- 2000
La casa en la playa
Severo Rincón · 65 episodes
1990s
- 1999
Reclusorio III
Movie
Chamula, tierra de sangre
Presidente Municipal
- 1998
- 1997
La crisis me da risa
Movie
- 1996
Morir dos veces
Orduña · 55 episodes
- 1995
Two Crimes
Ramón
- 1994
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
Movie
- 1993
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
Don Severo
La loteria
Policarpo (El mala-suerte)
- 1992
La tumba del Atlantico
Chito Cardona
- 1991
Amor y venganza
Aurelio Morán
El extensionista
Manuela, Benito Sánchez
Maria la guerrillera
Moisés Lozoya
1980s
- 1989
For Better or for Worse
Choirboy
Goitia: A God for Himself
Goitia
A Christmas Carol
Movie
- 1988
Hope
General
The Wrath of a God
Movie
Reto a la vida
Doctor
Intriga contra México
Movie
- 1987
The Scent of Death
Mr. López
Zapata en Chinameca
Urbano Martínez
Wandering Lives
Francisco
La mujer policía
Movie
- 1986
Contrabando y muerte
Movie
Astucia
Tendero
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
Guillermo
Robachicos
Movie
- 1985
Viaje al paraíso
Pajarito
Masacre en el río Tula
El Mulato
Operation Marihuana
Movie
- 1984
El Mil Usos II
Movie
Luna de sangre
Coco Loco
Carnival Night
Jincho
- 1983
Mundo mágico
Movie
Under the Shrapnel
Martin
Guerrillero Del Norte
Profesor
- 1981
Fuego en el mar
Manuel
Occupation of Darkness
Movie
El mil usos
Movie
- 1980
1970s
- 1979
The Holy War
Celso Dominguez
- 1978
Los hijos de Sanchez
Movie
Cananea
Manuel Diéguez
- 1977
- 1976
The Bricklayers
Jacinto Martínez
The Heist
El Carajo
The House in the South
Peasant
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Movie
- 1975
Letters from Marusia
Argandoña
El valle de los miserables
Tío Chinto
Simon Blanco
Lic. Cardoso
- 1974
The Dogs of God
Javier Ortega / Priest / Man on the street
La muerte de Pancho Villa
Movie
- 1972
- 1971
They Call Him Marcado
el Manco
- 1970
Emiliano Zapata
Movie
1960s
- 1968
Valentín de la Sierra
Movie
The Scapular
Ruiz, soldado
- 1965
Black Wind
Pablo Penagos
Appearances1
1980s
- 1986
Three of Cups
Narrator