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