Acting
José Carlos Ruiz
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
La posada
Film · 2023
CARNAL
Film · 2021
Tigers
Film · 2020
Tell Me When
Film · 2020
Stormmaker
Film · 2018
Laws of love
Series · 2018
One for the Road
Film · 2015
Warehoused
Film · 2015
El lado oscuro de la luz
Film · 2013
Wild at Heart
Series · 2013
Suave Patria
Film · 2012
Crossing the Desert
Film · 2012
Soy tu dueña
Series · 2010
El estudiante
Film · 2009
Morenita: el escándalo
Film · 2009
Buddah's Head
Film · 2009
Más allá del muro
Film · 2009
Sortilegio
Series · 2009
El Garabato
Film · 2008
Cruz de navajas
Film · 2008
Tear This Heart Out
Film · 2008
Killer Women
Series · 2008
24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
Film · 2007
La Casa de los Amantes
Film · 2007
Storm Over Paradise
Series · 2007
Tribus Urbanas
Film · 2006
Guadalupe
Film · 2006
Amar sin límites
Series · 2006
Curandero
Film · 2005
The Miracle
Film · 2003
Las perversiones del padre José
Film · 2003
Dark Fate
Series · 2003
Benjamín
Film · 2002
Snake Skin
Film · 2002
Viaje Aterrador
Film · 2002
Las Vías del Amor
Series · 2002
Atrévete a Olvidarme
Series · 2001
His Most Serene Highness
Film · 2000
La casa en la playa
Series · 2000
Reclusorio III
Film · 1999
Soñadoras
Series · 1998
Pueblo chico, infierno grande
Series · 1997
María Isabel
Series · 1997
Jasmine blossoms
Film · 1996
Morir dos veces
Series · 1996
Two Crimes
Film · 1995
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
Film · 1994
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
Film · 1993
El extensionista
Film · 1991
El extensionista
Film · 1991
La jaula de la muerte
Film · 1990
A Christmas Carol
Film · 1989
Goitia: A God for Himself
Film · 1989
For Better or for Worse
Film · 1989
The Wrath of a God
Film · 1988
Hope
Film · 1988
Intriga contra México
Film · 1988
Reto a la vida
Film · 1988
La mujer policía
Film · 1987
Wandering Lives
Film · 1987
Zapata en Chinameca
Film · 1987
The Scent of Death
Film · 1987
Salvador
Film · 1986
Three of Cups
Film · 1986
Robachicos
Film · 1986
Astucia
Film · 1986
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
Film · 1986
Contrabando y muerte
Film · 1986
Viaje al paraíso
Film · 1985
Operation Marihuana
Film · 1985
Masacre en el río Tula
Film · 1985
Violent Stories
Film · 1985
Toña Machetes
Film · 1985
Muchachita
Series · 1985
Carnival Night
Film · 1984
El Mil Usos II
Film · 1984
Luna de sangre
Film · 1984
La traición
Series · 1984
Under the Shrapnel
Film · 1983
Mundo mágico
Film · 1983
Fuego en el mar
Film · 1981
El mil usos
Film · 1981
Occupation of Darkness
Film · 1981
Caboblanco
Film · 1980
The Holy War
Film · 1979
Eagle's Wing
Film · 1979
Who'll Stop the Rain
Film · 1978
The Year of the Plague
Film · 1978
The Children of Sanchez
Film · 1978
Cananea
Film · 1978
Los hijos de Sanchez
Film · 1978
Rattlesnake
Film · 1977
El elegido
Film · 1977
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Film · 1976
The Heist
Film · 1976
The Bricklayers
Film · 1976
The House in the South
Film · 1976
Simon Blanco
Film · 1975
El valle de los miserables
Film · 1975
Letters from Marusia
Film · 1975
La muerte de Pancho Villa
Film · 1974
The Dogs of God
Film · 1974
Buck and the Preacher
Film · 1972
They Call Him Marcado
Film · 1971
Emiliano Zapata
Film · 1970
Valentín de la Sierra
Film · 1968
The Scapular
Film · 1968
Major Dundee
Film · 1965
Black Wind
Film · 1965