8.3
8.3
The Scapular
1968
as Ruiz, soldado
José Carlos Ruiz
Acting
Born:November 17, 1936(age 89)
Birthplace:Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico
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CommunityBiography
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 (79 movies)
7.9
7.9
Black Wind
1965
as Pablo Penagos
7.8
7.8
La posada
2023
as Carlos
7.7
7.7
El estudiante
2009
as Don Pedro
7.4
7.4
One for the Road
2015
as Emiliano
7.4
7.4
Warehoused
2015
as Mr. Lino
7.0
7.0
El mil usos
1981
7.0
7.0
Salvador
1986
as Archbishop Romero
6.7
6.7
Más allá del muro
2009
6.6
6.6
Major Dundee
1965
as Riago
6.6
6.6
Tell Me When
2020
6.6
6.6
Noche de carnaval
1984
as Jincho
6.5
6.5
The Heist
1976
as El Carajo
6.5
6.5
The Bricklayers
1976
as Jacinto Martínez
6.5
6.5
El Garabato
2008
as Commander Carmona
6.5
6.5
Who'll Stop the Rain
1978
as Galindez
6.3
6.3
El elegido
1977
as Judas
6.3
6.3
El Mil Usos II
1984
6.2
6.2
His Most Serene Highness
2000
as Máximo Huerta
6.1
6.1
The Children of Sanchez
1978
6.1
6.1
Suave Patria
2012
as Jeronimo Natage
6.1
6.1
Rattlesnake
1977
as Tomás
6.0
6.0
Luna de sangre
1984
as Coco Loco
5.9
5.9
Masacre en el río Tula
1985
as El Mulato
5.9
5.9
Toña Machetes
1985
5.8
5.8
Cananea
1978
as Manuel Diéguez
5.8
5.8
Zapata en Chinameca
1987
as Urbano Martínez
5.8
5.8
Astucia
1986
as Tendero
5.8
5.8
Fuego en el mar
1981
as Manuel
5.8
5.8
Hope
1988
as General
5.7
5.7
Three of Cups
1986
as Narrator
5.7
5.7
Wandering Lives
1985
as Francisco
5.7
5.7
Violent Stories
1985
5.7
5.7
Jasmine blossoms
1996
as Don Ramón
5.6
5.6
Morenita: el escándalo
2009
as Obispo
5.6
5.6
La muerte de Pancho Villa
1974
5.6
5.6
Valentín de la Sierra
1968
5.6
5.6
Curandero
2005
as Don Carlos
5.4
5.4
El extensionista
1991
as Manuela
5.4
5.4
Letters from Marusia
1975
as Argandoña
5.3
5.3
Simon Blanco
1975
as Lic. Cardoso
5.2
5.2
Eagle's Wing
1979
as Lame Wolf
5.1
5.1
Under the Shrapnel
1983
as Martin
5.1
5.1
The Year of the Plague
1978
as Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
5.0
5.0
Robachicos
1986
5.0
5.0
La jaula de la muerte
1990
as Enrique
5.0
5.0
El lado oscuro de la luz
2013
5.0
5.0
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
1986
as Guillermo
5.0
5.0
Snake Skin
2002
5.0
5.0
Guadalupe
2006
5.0
5.0
Contrabando y muerte
1986
5.0
5.0
24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
2007
5.0
5.0
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
1994
5.0
5.0
Operacion marihuana
1985
5.0
5.0
Cruz de navajas
2008
5.0
5.0
Reto a la vida
1988
as Doctor
5.0
5.0
Intriga contra México
1988
5.0
5.0
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
1993
as Don Severo
5.0
5.0
Tribus Urbanas
2006
4.8
4.8
Mundo mágico
1983
4.8
4.8
The Holy War
1979
as Celso Dominguez
4.7
4.7
Two Crimes
1995
as Ramón
4.7
4.7
The House in the South
1976
as Peasant
4.6
4.6
The Wrath of a God
1988
4.3
4.3
Oficio de tinieblas
1981
4.1
4.1
Viaje al paraíso
1985
as Pajarito
4.0
4.0
Los perros de Dios
1974
4.0
4.0
Crossing the Desert
2012
as Don Prudencio
4.0
4.0
They Call Him Marcado
1971
as el Manco
3.9
3.9
Stormmaker
2017
3.8
3.8
El valle de los miserables
1975
as Tío Chinto
3.6
3.6
Goitia: A God for Himself
1989
as Goitia
3.5
3.5
La mujer policía
1987
3.4
3.4
Las perversiones del padre José
2003
2.0
2.0
A Christmas Carol
1989
CARNAL
2021
as Gonzalo
Tigers
2020
as Pascual el Viejo
Benjamín
2002
The Miracle
2003
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