
José Manuel Poncelis
Acting – Died 2024-08-31
Biography
With a career of more than 35 years as a theater, film, and television series actor, he has also worked as a theater director, also venturing into playwriting and production. He has acted in more than 20 films, some of them are: “Marionetas” by Álvaro Curiel, “Polvo” directed by José María Yaspik, “Sueño en otro Idioma” by Director Ernesto Contreras. He has been awarded the Mayahuel 2017 award and as best actor, with the film “Sueño en otro Idioma” at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in 2017 and with the WINSTON-SALEM OUT AT THE MOVIES LGBT FILM SERIES award. In addition to films like “De la Calle”, “La Ley de Heródes”, “Ricochet”, “Pescador” among others. He has participated in series for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, CANAL 11, FOX AND NETFLIX, among which stand out: Sitiados, Hernán, Biografía de una lengua, La Reina Roja, Palenque.
Filmography
26 credits
¡Que viva México!
Movie • 2023
Don Pancracio

Cero y van cuatro
Movie • 2004
Taxista ("El Torzón")

Diente por diente
Movie • 2013
Rutilio

I Don't Want to Be Dust
Movie • 2022
Cuidador del cementerio

Tótem
Movie • 2023
Tío Octavio

La noche de las flores
Movie • 2011

Never on a Sunday
Movie • 2006
Pancho

National Geographic: Pyramids of Death
Movie • 2005

Disappear Completely
Movie • 2024
Chamán

Cabeza de Vaca
Movie • 1991
Wounded Indian

Under California: The Limit of Time
Movie • 1998
Indígena

Hijos del viento
Movie • 2000
Chaman

Man on Fire
Movie • 2004
School Clerk

Ik Dietrick Fon, the hidden sound of things
Movie • 2015
Doorman

Streeters
Movie • 2001
Teporocho

Herod's Law
Movie • 1999
Filemón

Crazy Carnival
Movie • 2006
La Patria

I Dream in Another Language
Movie • 2017
Isauro

Curandero
Movie • 2025
Jesús

Ricochet
Movie • 2020
Gallero 1

Marionette
Movie • 2020

Powder
Movie • 2019
Facundo

Aztech
Movie • 2020

The Tiger of Santa Julia
Movie • 2002
Carmelo

Besieged: Mexico
TV • 2019
Chaman

Cóyotl, Hero and Beast
TV • 2025