Acting · Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico · Born November 17, 1936
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.
MovieLa posada
2023
as Carlos
MovieCARNAL
2021
as Gonzalo
MovieTell Me When
2020
MovieTigers
2020
as Pascual el Viejo
TVLaws of love
2018
as Armando
MovieStormmaker
2017
MovieWarehoused
2015
as Mr. Lino
MovieOne for the Road
2015
as Emiliano
MovieEl lado oscuro de la luz
2013
TVWild at Heart
2013
as Padre Julián
MovieSuave Patria
2012
as Jeronimo Natage
MovieCrossing the Desert
2012
as Don Prudencio
TVSoy tu dueña
2010
as Sabino Mercado
MovieEl estudiante
2009
as Don Pedro
TVSortilegio
2009
as Chucho
MovieBuddah's Head
2009
as Invitado 3
MovieMorenita: el escándalo
2009
as Obispo
MovieMás allá del muro
2009
MovieTear This Heart Out
2008
as Soriano
TVKiller Women
2008
as Comandante Quiroz
MovieCruz de navajas
2008
MovieEl Garabato
2008
as Commander Carmona
TVStorm Over Paradise
2007
as Ahzac
Movie24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
2007
MovieGuadalupe
2006
TVAmar sin límites
2006
as Don Aurelio Huerta
MovieTribus Urbanas
2006
MovieCurandero
2005
as Don Carlos
MovieThe Miracle
2003
TVDark Fate
2003
as Isidro Valtierra
MovieLas perversiones del padre José
2003
TVLas Vías del Amor
2002
as Fidel Gutiérrez Arismendi
MovieBenjamín
2002
MovieSnake Skin
2002
Viaje Aterrador
2002
as Alejandro
TVAtrévete a Olvidarme
2001
as Cecilio Rabadán
His Most Serene Highness
2000
as Máximo Huerta
TVLa casa en la playa
2000
as Severo Rincón
MovieReclusorio III
1999
TVSoñadoras
1998
as Don Eugenio de la Peña
TVMaría Isabel
1997
as Pedro
TVPueblo chico, infierno grande
1997
as Arcadio
Jasmine blossoms
1996
as Don Ramón
TVMorir dos veces
1996
as Orduña
MovieTwo Crimes
1995
as Ramón
MovieSuerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
1994
MovieSanto: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
1993
as Don Severo
MovieEl extensionista
1991
as Manuela
La jaula de la muerte
1990
as Enrique
MovieFor Better or for Worse
1989
as Choirboy
A Christmas Carol
1989
MovieGoitia: A God for Himself
1989
as Goitia
MovieHope
1988
as General
MovieThe Wrath of a God
1988
MovieReto a la vida
1988
as Doctor
MovieIntriga contra México
1988
MovieThe Scent of Death
1987
as Mr. López
MovieZapata en Chinameca
1987
as Urbano Martínez
MovieWandering Lives
1987
as Francisco
MovieLa mujer policía
1987
MovieContrabando y muerte
1986
MovieThree of Cups
1986
as Narrator
MovieAstucia
1986
as Tendero
MovieThe Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
1986
as Guillermo
MovieSalvador
1986
as Archbishop Romero
MovieRobachicos
1986
TVMuchachita
1985
as Pascual Sánchez
MovieViaje al paraíso
1985
as Pajarito
MovieViolent Stories
1985
MovieMasacre en el río Tula
1985
as El Mulato
MovieToña Machetes
1985
MovieOperation Marihuana
1985
MovieEl Mil Usos II
1984
TVLa traición
1984
as Cholo
MovieLuna de sangre
1984
as Coco Loco
MovieCarnival Night
1984
as Jincho
MovieMundo mágico
1983
MovieUnder the Shrapnel
1983
as Martin
MovieFuego en el mar
1981
as Manuel
MovieOccupation of Darkness
1981
MovieEl mil usos
1981
MovieCaboblanco
1980
as Hernandez
MovieEagle's Wing
1979
as Lame Wolf
MovieThe Holy War
1979
as Celso Dominguez
MovieLos hijos de Sanchez
1978
MovieCananea
1978
as Manuel Diéguez
MovieWho'll Stop the Rain
1978
as Galindez
MovieThe Children of Sanchez
1978
MovieThe Year of the Plague
1978
as Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
MovieRattlesnake
1977
as Tomás
MovieEl elegido
1977
as Judas
MovieThe Bricklayers
1976
as Jacinto Martínez
MovieThe Heist
1976
as El Carajo
MovieThe House in the South
1976
as Peasant
MovieMexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1976
MovieLetters from Marusia
1975
as Argandoña
MovieEl valle de los miserables
1975
as Tío Chinto
MovieSimon Blanco
1975
as Lic. Cardoso
MovieThe Dogs of God
1974
as Javier Ortega / Priest / Man on the street
MovieLa muerte de Pancho Villa
1974
MovieBuck and the Preacher
1972
as Brave
MovieThey Call Him Marcado
1971
as el Manco
MovieEmiliano Zapata
1970
MovieValentín de la Sierra
1968
MovieThe Scapular
1968
as Ruiz, soldado
MovieBlack Wind
1965
as Pablo Penagos
MovieMajor Dundee
1965
as Riago
