José Carlos Ruiz
Acting
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.
Born: November 17, 1936
Place of Birth: Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico
Known For
Filmography
as Carlos
as Gonzalo
as Pascual el Viejo
as Armando
as Mr. Lino
as Emiliano
as Padre Julián
as Jeronimo Natage
as Don Prudencio
as Sabino Mercado
as Don Pedro
as Chucho
as Invitado 3
as Obispo
as Soriano
as Comandante Quiroz
as Commander Carmona
as Ahzac
as Don Aurelio Huerta
as Don Carlos
as Isidro Valtierra
as Fidel Gutiérrez Arismendi
as Cecilio Rabadán
as Máximo Huerta
as Severo Rincón
as Don Eugenio de la Peña
as Pedro
as Arcadio
as Orduña
as Ramón
as Don Severo
as Benito Sánchez
as Manuela
as Choirboy
as Goitia
as General
as Doctor
as Urbano Martínez
as Tendero
as Guillermo
as Archbishop Romero
as Narrator
as Francisco
as Pajarito
as El Mulato
as Coco Loco
as Jincho
as Martin
as Manuel
as Hernandez
as Lame Wolf
as Celso Dominguez
as Manuel Diéguez
as Galindez
as Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
as Tomás
as Judas
as Jacinto Martínez
as El Carajo
as Peasant
as Argandoña
as Tío Chinto
as Lic. Cardoso
as Brave
as el Manco
as Ruiz, soldado
as Pablo Penagos
as Riago