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José Carlos Ruiz
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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…
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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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José Carlos Ruiz's Filmography
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La posada
as Carlos
CARNAL
as Gonzalo
Tell Me When
Tigers
as Pascual el Viejo
Stormmaker
Warehoused
as Mr. Lino
One for the Road
as Emiliano
El lado oscuro de la luz
Suave Patria
as Jeronimo Natage
Crossing the Desert
as Don Prudencio
El estudiante
as Don Pedro
Buddah's Head
as Invitado 3
Morenita: el escándalo
as Obispo
Más allá del muro
Tear This Heart Out
as Soriano
Cruz de navajas
El Garabato
as Commander Carmona
La Casa de los Amantes
as Charly
24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
Guadalupe
Tribus Urbanas
Curandero
as Don Carlos
The Miracle
Las perversiones del padre José
No Poster
Viaje Aterrador
as Alejandro
Snake Skin
Benjamín
No Poster
His Most Serene Highness
as Máximo Huerta
Reclusorio III
No Poster
Jasmine blossoms
as Don Ramón
Two Crimes
as Ramón
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
as Don Severo
El extensionista
as Manuela
El extensionista
as Benito Sánchez
No Poster
La jaula de la muerte
as Enrique
For Better or for Worse
as Choirboy
Goitia: A God for Himself
as Goitia
A Christmas Carol
Hope
as General
The Wrath of a God
Reto a la vida
as Doctor
Intriga contra México
The Scent of Death
as Mr. López
Zapata en Chinameca
as Urbano Martínez
Wandering Lives
as Francisco
La mujer policía
Contrabando y muerte
Three of Cups
as Narrator
Astucia
as Tendero
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
as Guillermo
Salvador
as Archbishop Romero
Robachicos
Viaje al paraíso
as Pajarito
Violent Stories
Masacre en el río Tula
as El Mulato
Toña Machetes
Operation Marihuana
El Mil Usos II
Luna de sangre
as Coco Loco
Carnival Night
as Jincho
Mundo mágico
Under the Shrapnel
as Martin
Fuego en el mar
as Manuel
Occupation of Darkness
El mil usos
Caboblanco
as Hernandez
Eagle's Wing
as Lame Wolf
The Holy War
as Celso Dominguez
Los hijos de Sanchez
Cananea
as Manuel Diéguez
Who'll Stop the Rain
as Galindez
The Children of Sanchez
The Year of the Plague
as Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
Rattlesnake
as Tomás
El elegido
as Judas
The Bricklayers
as Jacinto Martínez
The Heist
as El Carajo
The House in the South
as Peasant
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Letters from Marusia
as Argandoña
El valle de los miserables
as Tío Chinto
Simon Blanco
as Lic. Cardoso
The Dogs of God
as Javier Ortega / Priest / Man on the street
La muerte de Pancho Villa
Buck and the Preacher
as Brave
They Call Him Marcado
as el Manco
Emiliano Zapata
Valentín de la Sierra
The Scapular
as Ruiz, soldado
Black Wind
as Pablo Penagos
Major Dundee
as Riago