José Carlos Ruiz

José Carlos Ruiz

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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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico

Birthday: November 17, 1936

Adult: No

Gender: Male

TMDb-Id: 47885

IMDb-Id: nm0137728

Popularity:

1.41%

Known For

CARNAL
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
A Christmas Carol
Rattlesnake
Salvador
Benjamín
La mujer policía
Three of Cups
Viaje al paraíso
Robachicos
Astucia
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
El estudiante
Emiliano Zapata
El Garabato
Operacion marihuana
Tribus Urbanas
Major Dundee
El extensionista
El extensionista
They Call Him Marcado
Simon Blanco
24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
Suave Patria
Cruz de navajas
Morenita, El Escandalo
The Heist
Noche de carnaval
La muerte de Pancho Villa
Curandero
Under the Shrapnel
Masacre en el río Tula
The Wrath of a God
Snake Skin
Dark Side of the Light
One for the Road
The Miracle
Buck and the Preacher
Buddah's Head
Jasmine blossoms
The Holy War
His Most Serene Highness
Two Crimes
Guadalupe
Wandering Lives
Goitia: A God for Himself
Warehoused
Hope
Tigers
Más allá del muro
Eagle's Wing
Who'll Stop the Rain
Black Wind
Stormmaker
The Cage of Death
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
The Bricklayers
Zapata en Chinameca
Fuego en el mar
The Year of the Plague
El Mil Usos II
El mil usos
Oficio de tinieblas
Valentín de la Sierra
Mundo mágico
El elegido
Violent Stories
Intriga contra México
Reclusorio III
Luna de sangre
Contrabando y muerte
Tear This Heart Out
Reto a la vida
Tell Me When
The Children of Sanchez
Cananea
Toña Machetes
Honeymoon Academy
El valle de los miserables
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
The Scapular
Crossing the Desert
Cabo Blanco
Letters from Marusia
Los perros de Dios