José Carlos Ruiz
Acting • Born 1936-11-17
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.
Filmography
107 credits
CARNAL
Movie • 2021
Gonzalo
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Movie • 1976
A Christmas Carol
Movie • 1989
Rattlesnake
Movie • 1977
Tomás
Salvador
Movie • 1986
Archbishop Romero
Benjamín
Movie • 2002
La mujer policía
Movie • 1987
Three of Cups
Movie • 1986
Narrator
Viaje al paraíso
Movie • 1985
Pajarito
Robachicos
Movie • 1986
Astucia
Movie • 1986
Tendero
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
Movie • 1986
Guillermo
El estudiante
Movie • 2009
Don Pedro
Emiliano Zapata
Movie • 1970
El Garabato
Movie • 2008
Commander Carmona
Operation Marihuana
Movie • 1985
Tribus Urbanas
Movie • 2006
Major Dundee
Movie • 1965
Riago
El extensionista
Movie • 1991
Benito Sánchez
El extensionista
Movie • 1991
Manuela
They Call Him Marcado
Movie • 1971
el Manco
Simon Blanco
Movie • 1975
Lic. Cardoso
24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
Movie • 2007
Suave Patria
Movie • 2012
Jeronimo Natage
Cruz de navajas
Movie • 2008
Morenita: el escándalo
Movie • 2009
Obispo
The Heist
Movie • 1976
El Carajo
Carnival Night
Movie • 1984
Jincho
La muerte de Pancho Villa
Movie • 1974
Curandero
Movie • 2005
Don Carlos
Under the Shrapnel
Movie • 1983
Martin
Masacre en el río Tula
Movie • 1985
El Mulato
The Wrath of a God
Movie • 1988
Snake Skin
Movie • 2002
El lado oscuro de la luz
Movie • 2013
One for the Road
Movie • 2015
Emiliano
The Miracle
Movie • 2003
Buck and the Preacher
Movie • 1972
Brave
Buddah's Head
Movie • 2009
Invitado 3
Jasmine blossoms
Movie • 1996
Don Ramón
The Holy War
Movie • 1979
Celso Dominguez
His Most Serene Highness
Movie • 2000
Máximo Huerta
Two Crimes
Movie • 1995
Ramón
Guadalupe
Movie • 2006
Wandering Lives
Movie • 1985
Francisco
Warehoused
Movie • 2015
Mr. Lino
Goitia: A God for Himself
Movie • 1989
Goitia
Hope
Movie • 1988
General
Tigers
Movie • 2020
Pascual el Viejo
Más allá del muro
Movie • 2009
Eagle's Wing
Movie • 1979
Lame Wolf
Who'll Stop the Rain
Movie • 1978
Galindez
Black Wind
Movie • 1965
Pablo Penagos
Stormmaker
Movie • 2017
La jaula de la muerte
Movie • 1990
Enrique
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
Movie • 1994
The Bricklayers
Movie • 1976
Jacinto Martínez
Zapata en Chinameca
Movie • 1987
Urbano Martínez
Fuego en el mar
Movie • 1981
Manuel
The Year of the Plague
Movie • 1978
Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
El mil usos
Movie • 1981
El Mil Usos II
Movie • 1984
Occupation of Darkness
Movie • 1981
Valentín de la Sierra
Movie • 1968
Mundo mágico
Movie • 1983
El elegido
Movie • 1977
Judas
Violent Stories
Movie • 1985
Intriga contra México
Movie • 1988
Reclusorio III
Movie • 1999
Luna de sangre
Movie • 1984
Coco Loco
Contrabando y muerte
Movie • 1986
Tear This Heart Out
Movie • 2008
Soriano
Reto a la vida
Movie • 1988
Doctor
Tell Me When
Movie • 2020
The Children of Sanchez
Movie • 1978
Cananea
Movie • 1978
Manuel Diéguez
Toña Machetes
Movie • 1985
Honeymoon Academy
Movie • 1989
Choirboy
El valle de los miserables
Movie • 1975
Tío Chinto
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
Movie • 1993
Don Severo
The Scapular
Movie • 1968
Ruiz, soldado
Crossing the Desert
Movie • 2012
Don Prudencio
Caboblanco
Movie • 1980
Hernandez
Letters from Marusia
Movie • 1975
Argandoña
The Dogs of God
Movie • 1974
Javier Ortega / Priest / Man on the street
Las perversiones del padre José
Movie • 2003
The House in the South
Movie • 1976
Peasant
La posada
Movie • 2023
Carlos
The Scent of Death
Movie • 1987
Mr. López
Viaje Aterrador
Movie • 2002
Alejandro
Killer Women
TV • 2008
Comandante Quiroz
Soy tu dueña
TV • 2010
Sabino Mercado
Amar sin límites
TV • 2006
Don Aurelio Huerta
Soñadoras
TV • 1998
Don Eugenio de la Peña
Pueblo chico, infierno grande
TV • 1997
Arcadio
Laws of love
TV • 2018
Armando
Morir dos veces
TV • 1996
Orduña
Las Vías del Amor
TV • 2002
Fidel Gutiérrez Arismendi
La casa en la playa
TV • 2000
Severo Rincón
Wild at Heart
TV • 2013
Padre Julián
Atrévete a Olvidarme
TV • 2001
Cecilio Rabadán
Sortilegio
TV • 2009
Chucho
María Isabel
TV • 1997
Pedro
Storm Over Paradise
TV • 2007
Ahzac
Dark Fate
TV • 2003
Isidro Valtierra
Muchachita
TV • 1985
Pascual Sánchez
La traición
TV • 1984
Cholo