José Carlos Ruiz
Acting
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.
TV Shows(17)
Laws of love
Armando
2018
Wild at Heart
Padre Julián
2013
Soy tu dueña
Sabino Mercado
2010
Sortilegio
Chucho
2009
Killer Women
Comandante Quiroz
2008
Storm Over Paradise
Ahzac
2007
Amar sin límites
Don Aurelio Huerta
2006
Dark Fate
Isidro Valtierra
2003
Las Vías del Amor
Fidel Gutiérrez Arismendi
2002
Atrévete a Olvidarme
Cecilio Rabadán
2001
La casa en la playa
Severo Rincón
2000
Soñadoras
Don Eugenio de la Peña
1998
María Isabel
Pedro
1997
Pueblo chico, infierno grande
Arcadio
1997
Morir dos veces
Orduña
1996
Muchachita
Pascual Sánchez
1985
La traición
Cholo
1984
Movies(90)
La posada
Carlos
2023
CARNAL
Gonzalo
2021
Tell Me When
2020
Tigers
Pascual el Viejo
2020
Stormmaker
2017
Warehoused
Mr. Lino
2015
One for the Road
Emiliano
2015
El lado oscuro de la luz
2013
Suave Patria
Jeronimo Natage
2012
Crossing the Desert
Don Prudencio
2012
El estudiante
Don Pedro
2009
Buddah's Head
Invitado 3
2009
Morenita: el escándalo
Obispo
2009
Más allá del muro
2009
Tear This Heart Out
Soriano
2008
Cruz de navajas
2008
El Garabato
Commander Carmona
2008
24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
2007
Guadalupe
2006
Tribus Urbanas
2006
Curandero
Don Carlos
2005
The Miracle
2003
Las perversiones del padre José
2003
Benjamín
2002
Snake Skin
2002
Viaje Aterrador
Alejandro
2002
His Most Serene Highness
Máximo Huerta
2000
Reclusorio III
1999
Jasmine blossoms
Don Ramón
1996
Two Crimes
Ramón
1995
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
1994
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
Don Severo
1993
El extensionista
Manuela
1991
La jaula de la muerte
Enrique
1990
Honeymoon Academy
Choirboy
1989
A Christmas Carol
1989
Goitia: A God for Himself
Goitia
1989
Hope
General
1988
The Wrath of a God
1988
Reto a la vida
Doctor
1988
Intriga contra México
1988
The Scent of Death
Mr. López
1987
Zapata en Chinameca
Urbano Martínez
1987
Wandering Lives
Francisco
1987
La mujer policía
1987
Contrabando y muerte
1986
Astucia
Tendero
1986
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
Guillermo
1986
Salvador
Archbishop Romero
1986
Three of Cups
Narrator
1986
Robachicos
1986
Viaje al paraíso
Pajarito
1985
Violent Stories
1985
Masacre en el río Tula
El Mulato
1985
Toña Machetes
1985
Operation Marihuana
1985
El Mil Usos II
1984
Luna de sangre
Coco Loco
1984
Carnival Night
Jincho
1984
Mundo mágico
1983
Under the Shrapnel
Martin
1983
Fuego en el mar
Manuel
1981
Occupation of Darkness
1981
El mil usos
1981
Caboblanco
Hernandez
1980
Eagle's Wing
Lame Wolf
1979
The Holy War
Celso Dominguez
1979
Los hijos de Sanchez
1978
Cananea
Manuel Diéguez
1978
Who'll Stop the Rain
Galindez
1978
The Children of Sanchez
1978
The Year of the Plague
Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
1978
Rattlesnake
Tomás
1977
El elegido
Judas
1977
The Bricklayers
Jacinto Martínez
1976
The Heist
El Carajo
1976
The House in the South
Peasant
1976
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1976
Letters from Marusia
Argandoña
1975
El valle de los miserables
Tío Chinto
1975
Simon Blanco
Lic. Cardoso
1975
The Dogs of God
Javier Ortega / Priest / Man on the street
1974
La muerte de Pancho Villa
1974
Buck and the Preacher
Brave
1972
They Call Him Marcado
el Manco
1971
Emiliano Zapata
1970
Valentín de la Sierra
1968
The Scapular
Ruiz, soldado
1968
Black Wind
Pablo Penagos
1965
Major Dundee
Riago
1965