
Cast
José Carlos Ruiz
Acting
Cast
José Carlos Ruiz
Known for
Acting
Born
1936-11-17
From
Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico
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.

Salvador
as Archbishop Romero

Curandero
as Don Carlos

Violent Stories

Rattlesnake
as Tomás

Crossing the Desert
as Don Prudencio

Major Dundee
as Riago

Who'll Stop the Rain
as Galindez

Buck and the Preacher
as Brave

Reclusorio III

Guadalupe

Warehoused
as Mr. Lino

Operation Marihuana

Cananea
as Manuel Diéguez

Caboblanco
as Hernandez

El elegido
as Judas

For Better or for Worse
as Choirboy

The Miracle

Eagle's Wing
as Lame Wolf

The Heist
as El Carajo

Benjamín

Tear This Heart Out
as Soriano

They Call Him Marcado
as el Manco

Black Wind
as Pablo Penagos

CARNAL
as Gonzalo

Goitia: A God for Himself
as Goitia

His Most Serene Highness
as Máximo Huerta

El mil usos

The Children of Sanchez

24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver

Suave Patria
as Jeronimo Natage

Stormmaker

Tell Me When

The Year of the Plague
as Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo

Toña Machetes

El Garabato
as Commander Carmona

Los hijos de Sanchez

Astucia
as Tendero

The Scapular
as Ruiz, soldado

One for the Road
as Emiliano

Viaje al paraíso
as Pajarito

The Bricklayers
as Jacinto Martínez

Hope
as General

La posada
as Carlos

Masacre en el río Tula
as El Mulato

El estudiante
as Don Pedro

Letters from Marusia
as Argandoña

Under the Shrapnel
as Martin

Fuego en el mar
as Manuel

Two Crimes
as Ramón

Emiliano Zapata

Morenita: el escándalo
as Obispo

Intriga contra México

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!

Carnival Night
as Jincho

Más allá del muro

Las perversiones del padre José

Three of Cups
as Narrator

Contrabando y muerte

Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
as Don Severo

Tigers
as Pascual el Viejo

Tribus Urbanas

El extensionista
as Manuela

El extensionista
as Benito Sánchez

The Holy War
as Celso Dominguez

El Mil Usos II

Robachicos

Simon Blanco
as Lic. Cardoso

The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
as Guillermo

The House in the South
as Peasant

The Wrath of a God

Valentín de la Sierra

Mundo mágico

Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)

El valle de los miserables
as Tío Chinto

La jaula de la muerte
as Enrique

Wandering Lives
as Francisco

La muerte de Pancho Villa

Occupation of Darkness

El lado oscuro de la luz

Jasmine blossoms
as Don Ramón

Snake Skin

Zapata en Chinameca
as Urbano Martínez

The Scent of Death
as Mr. López

Reto a la vida
as Doctor

La mujer policía

Buddah's Head
as Invitado 3

The Dogs of God
as Javier Ortega / Priest / Man on the street

Cruz de navajas

Luna de sangre
as Coco Loco

A Christmas Carol

Viaje Aterrador
as Alejandro