José Carlos Ruiz

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Born: November 17, 1936
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.

Works

90 films

Crossing the Desert

20124.0

Simon Blanco

19756.3

Violent Stories

19855.9

Major Dundee

19656.7

24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver

20075.0

El Garabato

20086.5

Toña Machetes

19856.6

His Most Serene Highness

20006.4

Hope

19886.3

Buck and the Preacher

19726.3

Eagle's Wing

19795.3

Who'll Stop the Rain

19786.5

Salvador

19867.0

Tribus Urbanas

20065.0

Tear This Heart Out

20087.9

Viaje Aterrador

20025.0

Snake Skin

20026.0

Wandering Lives

19875.9

Jasmine blossoms

19966.3

Stormmaker

20173.9

Caboblanco

19805.3

Tell Me When

20206.6

The Children of Sanchez

19786.5

For Better or for Worse

19895.2

Suave Patria

20126.3

Los hijos de Sanchez

1978

Under the Shrapnel

19835.5

Guadalupe

20065.0

Rattlesnake

19776.2

The Miracle

200310.0

The Heist

19766.5

Goitia: A God for Himself

19894.1

Occupation of Darkness

19815.1

CARNAL

2021

La posada

20237.8

Astucia

19866.3

The Scent of Death

19876.8

Cruz de navajas

20085.0

Masacre en el río Tula

19856.6

El valle de los miserables

19754.3

Tigers

2020

Curandero

20055.7

They Call Him Marcado

19714.4

Operation Marihuana

19856.7

Black Wind

19657.9

El extensionista

19915.7

Three of Cups

19866.1

The Bricklayers

19766.6

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!

19765.7

The Scapular

19688.3

Letters from Marusia

19755.6

One for the Road

20157.4

Las perversiones del padre José

20033.4

Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)

19946.3

Luna de sangre

19846.7

Morenita: el escándalo

20095.6

El mil usos

19817.2

Reclusorio III

19996.7

The Wrath of a God

19885.2

La muerte de Pancho Villa

19745.8

Contrabando y muerte

19865.8

Fuego en el mar

19816.1

Cananea

19786.1

Viaje al paraíso

19854.5

The Year of the Plague

19785.3

Robachicos

19866.3

Two Crimes

19955.2

Zapata en Chinameca

19876.6

The Holy War

19795.0

Benjamín

200210.0

Emiliano Zapata

19706.4

A Christmas Carol

19895.5

El elegido

19777.1

Buddah's Head

20093.0

Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata

19935.8

The Dogs of God

19744.4

Valentín de la Sierra

19685.4

El estudiante

20097.8

Más allá del muro

20096.7

Reto a la vida

19886.7

Warehoused

20157.4

The House in the South

19766.0

Mundo mágico

19835.8

Carnival Night

19846.8

El Mil Usos II

19846.4

The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell

19865.4

El lado oscuro de la luz

20135.0

Intriga contra México

19886.0

La mujer policía

19874.4

La jaula de la muerte

19905.7