José Carlos Ruiz

José Carlos Ruiz

Born 1936-11-17 (age 89) Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico
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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.

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Known For

Violent Stories
Salvador
Salvador

1986

as Archbishop Romero

Crossing the Desert
Crossing the Desert

2012

as Don Prudencio

Curandero
Curandero

2005

as Don Carlos

Major Dundee
Major Dundee

1965

as Riago

Buck and the Preacher
Rattlesnake
Rattlesnake

1977

as Tomás

Who'll Stop the Rain
Who'll Stop the Rain

1978

as Galindez

Caboblanco
Caboblanco

1980

as Hernandez

Reclusorio III
Guadalupe
El elegido
El elegido

1977

as Judas

Warehoused
Warehoused

2015

as Mr. Lino

Tear This Heart Out
Tear This Heart Out

2008

as Soriano

For Better or for Worse
For Better or for Worse

1989

as Choirboy

Cananea
Cananea

1978

as Manuel Diéguez

They Call Him Marcado
They Call Him Marcado

1971

as el Manco

Black Wind
Black Wind

1965

as Pablo Penagos