José Carlos Ruiz
1936-11-17 ( 88 years old ) in Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico

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.

Movies

CARNAL 2021-09-04
Tell Me When 2020-12-25
Tigers 2020-11-15
Stormmaker 2017-03-02
Warehoused 2015-11-10
One for the Road 2015-04-10
El lado oscuro de la luz 2013-06-03
Suave Patria 2012-09-07
Crossing the Desert 2012-05-18
El estudiante 2009-08-14
Buddah's Head 2009-05-17
Morenita, El Escandalo 2009-03-01
Más allá del muro 2009-01-01
Tear This Heart Out 2008-09-12
Cruz de navajas 2008-02-20
El Garabato 2008-01-11
24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver 2007-01-01
Guadalupe 2006-12-01
Tribus Urbanas 2006-01-01
Curandero 2005-10-18
The Miracle 2003-10-28
Las perversiones del padre José 2003-01-01
Benjamín 2002-01-01
Snake Skin 2002-01-01
His Most Serene Highness 2000-08-17
Reclusorio III 1999-01-01
Jasmine blossoms 1996-11-24
Two Crimes 1995-05-26
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III) 1994-01-01
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata 1993-01-01
El extensionista 1991-02-28
El extensionista 1991-02-28
The Cage of Death 1990-09-28
Honeymoon Academy 1989-12-01
A Christmas Carol 1989-01-01
Goitia: A God for Himself 1989-01-01
Hope 1988-11-30
The Wrath of a God 1988-11-10
Reto a la vida 1988-03-31
Intriga contra México 1988-01-01
Zapata en Chinameca 1987-02-15
La mujer policía 1987-01-01
Contrabando y muerte 1986-12-04
Astucia 1986-11-06
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell 1986-10-01
Salvador 1986-04-23
Three of Cups 1986-01-04
Robachicos 1986-01-01
Wandering Lives 1985-09-19
Viaje al paraíso 1985-09-08
Violent Stories 1985-08-29
Masacre en el río Tula 1985-08-22
Toña Machetes 1985-01-31
Operacion marihuana 1985-01-29
El Mil Usos II 1984-11-14
Luna de sangre 1984-02-23
Noche de carnaval 1984-01-26
Mundo mágico 1983-12-29
Under the Shrapnel 1983-11-17
Fuego en el mar 1981-09-23
Oficio de tinieblas 1981-06-04
El mil usos 1981-04-26
Caboblanco 1980-01-23
Eagle's Wing 1979-07-26
The Holy War 1979-07-05
Cananea 1978-08-17
Who'll Stop the Rain 1978-08-02
The Children of Sanchez 1978-06-16
The Year of the Plague 1978-02-12
Rattlesnake 1977-09-01
El elegido 1977-01-13
The Bricklayers 1976-12-23
The Heist 1976-08-05
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra! 1976-02-04
Letters from Marusia 1975-12-26
El valle de los miserables 1975-04-16
Simon Blanco 1975-03-16
Los perros de Dios 1974-09-19
La muerte de Pancho Villa 1974-05-01
Buck and the Preacher 1972-03-17
They Call Him Marcado 1971-12-25
Emiliano Zapata 1970-11-20
Valentín de la Sierra 1968-09-11
The Scapular 1968-01-18
Black Wind 1965-12-23
Major Dundee 1965-03-15

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