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 SpÃndola, Eduardo López Rojas, Salvador Sánchez, Gian MarÃa 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.
José Carlos Ruiz Biography / Wiki
| Name | José Carlos Ruiz |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico |
| Date of Birth | 1936-11-17 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 85 |
| Deathday |
José Carlos Ruiz Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| 24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver | 2007-01-01 | … | |
| The Heist | El Carajo | 1976-08-05 | In Mexico City’s infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out an… |
| One for the Road | Emiliano | 2015-04-10 | Three octogenarians set out on a trip in order to fulfill the dying wish of a lifelong friend, in spite of the disapproval of their families and the l… |
| Dark Side of the Light | 2013-06-03 | Powerful psychological thriller based on the true story of a serial murderer, who for his crimes, was sentenced to the electric chair and survived. Th… | |
| The Holy War | Celso Dominguez | 1979-07-05 | Through the humble potter Celso we will know one of the most dramatic events in the history of Mexico in the twentieth century, in which the federal g… |
| Wandering Lives | Francisco | 1985-09-19 | Two traveling projectionists tour the villages of the mountains showing films in order to save money and build their own theater…. |
| Goitia: A God for Himself | Goitia | 1989-01-01 | … |
| Stormmaker | 2017-03-02 | Romero, a retired fisherman and a forgotten hero by the community, lives isolated in his home, surrounded by ghosts of the life he couldn’t have, spir… | |
| Mundo mágico | 1983-12-29 | Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance…. | |
| BenjamÃn | 2002-01-01 | … | |
| El extensionista | Benito Sánchez | 1991-02-28 | … |
| Cruz de navajas | 2008-02-20 | … | |
| Jasmine blossoms | Don Ramón | 1996-11-24 | Luis is attempting suicide from the top level of a construction building when he is interrupted by Don Ramón who also wants to kill himself. The two … |
| Warehoused | Mr. Lino | 2015-11-10 | An employee about to retire and the young man who is to take over, share five journeys in the work place, an enormous empty warehouse where apparently… |
| The Year of the Plague | Dr. Jorge MartÃnez Abasolo | 1979-01-01 | A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and… |
| Intriga contra México | 1988-01-01 | An international group is trying to destabilize Mexico by assassinating the President…. | |
| Operacion marihuana | 1985-01-29 | … | |
| El extensionista | Manuela | 1991-02-28 | … |
| Under the Shrapnel | Martin | 1983-11-17 | A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets… |
| The Wrath of a God | 1988-11-10 | On the beach lies the body of Claudio O’Riley, heir to a monopoly shrimp, and his voice recounts his rise to power: the incestuous relationship with h… | |
| His Most Serene Highness | Máximo Huerta | 2000-08-17 | This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately co… |
| Más allá del muro | 2009-01-01 | A house is to be demolished to make a parking lot. In the process, the children of an orphanage and the old people of an asylum, both neighbors of the… | |
| The Cage of Death | 1990-09-28 | An old man makes a pact with the devil to once again see the woman he loves… his niece…. | |
| Fuego en el mar | Manuel | 1981-09-23 | Uneventful but unhappy life of a guy who works on an oil platform in the Gulf Of Mexico…. |
| Luna de sangre | Coco Loco | 1984-02-23 | Mexican feature film… |
| Curandero | Don Carlos | 2005-10-18 | A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City… |
| Two Crimes | Ramón | 1995-05-26 | After being falsely accused of a murder, Marcos runs away to the small and quiet town of Cuevano. There he finds that the family matters are more comp… |
| Guadalupe | 2006-12-01 | Jose Maria and his sister Mercedes are archaeologists who have been given a grant to study the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe, whom Juan Diego, an ord… | |
| Cananea | Manuel Diéguez | 1978-08-17 | Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are explo… |
| Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata | Don Severo | 1993-01-01 | … |
| A Christmas Carol | 1989-01-01 | Plot unknown…. | |
| Tribus Urbanas | 2006-01-01 | …. | |
| Hope | General | 1988-11-30 | At only 19 years old, Vladimir Olhosvky, fleeing the Russian Revolution and going into exile in Mexico City, will have to make his way in a new countr… |
| El Mil Usos II | 1984-11-14 | Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream…. | |
| El elegido | Judas | 1977-01-13 | A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play…. |
| Contrabando y muerte | 1986-12-04 | A young man gets involved in the drug trade and is murdered. His father sets out to find the killers…. | |
| Tell Me When | 2020-12-25 | After his grandfather’s death, a young man decides to fulfill his elder’s last wish with the help of his new friends. The problem starts when he falls… | |
| Toña Machetes | 1985-01-31 | A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man…. | |
| They Call Him Marcado | el Manco | 1971-12-25 | The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his father t… |
| Zapata en Chinameca | 1987-02-15 | … | |
| Reto a la vida | Doctor | 1988-03-31 | Carlos has spent four years in prison for selling drugs. When he’s released he finds out his brother has become a drug addict and is locked in a psych… |
| El estudiante | Don Pedro | 2009-08-14 | After retiring to the beautiful Mexican town of Guanajuato, a 70 year old decides to follow his dreams and enroll at the university where he stumbles … |
| Noche de carnaval | Jincho | 1984-01-26 | … |
| Simon Blanco | Lic. Cardoso | 1975-03-16 | The peasant and revolutionary Zapatista Simon Blanco still in arms but Zapata is dead. Simon with his lieutenant Andres visits his mother and his girl… |
| Suave Patria | Jeronimo Natage | 2012-09-07 | Oscar and Arthur are two actors without fortune who survive unemployment with a routine street, where one represents the thief and the other to the po… |
| The Bricklayers | Jacinto MartÃnez | 1976-12-23 | When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surround… |
| El Mil Usos | 1981-04-26 | The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named “Milusos” who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds… | |
| Oficio de tinieblas | 1981-06-04 | “Occupation of Darkness” – Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official’s attempt at land reform. The la… | |
| Crossing the Desert | Don Prudencio | 2012-05-18 | Victor, a successful and well-respected businessman, is obsessed by the legend that an indigenous woman told him when he was a child. Victor lives a c… |
| Three of Cups | Narrator | 1986-01-04 | While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both…. |
| Morenita, El Escandalo | Obispo | 2009-03-01 | Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the venerated image of the Virgin of Guadalupe causing p… |
| Letters from Marusia | Argandoña | 1975-12-26 | Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most ess… |
| The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell | Guillermo | 1986-10-01 | Raul Araiza’s chilling Spanish-language supernatural thriller tells the tale of two powerful beings, one good and one evil incarnate, fighting for con… |
| Masacre en el RÃo Tula | El Mulato | 1985-08-22 | Based on a real event, twelve dead bodies are found in the Tula River, we see the events that lead up to the massacre in a tale of crime, vice, corrup… |
| Rattlesnake | Tomás | 1977-09-01 | A filmmaker is commissioned to film a documentary on the social reality of the Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas. As he enters the harsh living … |
| Salvador | Archbishop Romero | 1986-04-23 | A second-rate journalist from the US tries his luck in El Salvador during the military dictatorship in the 1980s…. |
| Black Wind | Pablo Penagos | 1965-12-23 | The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles be… |
| The Scapular | Ruiz, soldado | 1968-01-18 | A woman who is about to die calls the town’s priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe… |
| The Children of Sanchez | 1978-06-16 | Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by… | |
| La muerte de Pancho Villa | 1974-05-01 | After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy… and then he gets assassinated…. | |
| ValentÃn de la Sierra | 1968-09-11 | … | |
| El Garabato | Commander Carmona | 2008-01-11 | The story of a naive young man, provincial and not very experienced, to whom the circumstances of destiny, when crossing with the beautiful Frida, lea… |
| Who’ll Stop the Rain | Galindez | 1978-08-02 | John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside… |
| Violent Stories | 1985-01-01 | Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film…. | |
| El valle de los miserables | TÃo Chinto | 1975-04-16 | … |
| Suerte en la vida (La LoterÃa III) | 1994-01-01 | Five stories that tell the tale of winning the lottery in Mexico and how it changes lives…. | |
| Major Dundee | Riago | 1965-04-07 | During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on a… |
| Cabo Blanco | Hernandez | 1980-03-13 | Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea ex… |
| Honeymoon Academy | Choirboy | 1989-12-01 | A honeymooning couple become entangled in a plot to recover plates for counterfeiting US dollars. SHE thinks she’s just retired from a government ‘dir… |
| Emiliano Zapata | 1970-11-20 | An old man remembers Emiliano Zapata, the Mexican revolutionary who defended the rights of the peasants…. | |
| Reclusorio III | 1999-01-01 | 3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive…. | |
| Buck and the Preacher | Brave | 1972-03-17 | A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West…. |
| Tear This Heart Out | Soriano | 2008-09-12 | A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new fem… |
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