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