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.
Acted in
CARNAL
2021
as Gonzalo
Tell Me When
2020
Tigers
2020
as Pascual el Viejo
Laws of love
2018
as Armando
Stormmaker
2017
Warehoused
2015
as Mr. Lino
One for the Road
2015
as Emiliano
Dark Side of the Light
2013
Wild at Heart
2013
as Padre Julián
Suave Patria
2012
as Jeronimo Natage
Crossing the Desert
2012
as Don Prudencio
Soy tu dueña
2010
as Sabino Mercado
El estudiante
2009
as Don Pedro
Sortilegio
2009
as Chucho
Buddah's Head
2009
as Invitado 3
Morenita, El Escandalo
2009
as Obispo
Más allá del muro
2009
Tear This Heart Out
2008
as Soriano
Killer Women
2008
as Comandante Quiroz
Cruz de navajas
2008
El Garabato
2008
as Commander Carmona
Storm Over Paradise
2007
as Ahzac
24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
2007
Guadalupe
2006
Amar sin límites
2006
as Don Aurelio Huerta
Tribus Urbanas
2006
Curandero
2005
as Don Carlos
The Miracle
2003
Dark Fate
2003
as Isidro Valtierra
Las Vías del Amor
2002
as Fidel Gutiérrez Arismendi
Benjamín
2002
Snake Skin
2002
Atrévete a Olvidarme
2001
as Cecilio Rabadán
His Most Serene Highness
2000
as Máximo Huerta
La casa en la playa
2000
as Severo Rincón
Reclusorio III
1999
Soñadoras
1998
as Don Eugenio de la Peña
María Isabel
1997
as Pedro
Pueblo chico, infierno grande
1997
as Arcadio
Jasmine blossoms
1996
as Don Ramón
Morir dos veces
1996
as Orduña
Two Crimes
1995
as Ramón
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
1994
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
1993
as Don Severo
El extensionista
1991
as Manuela
El extensionista
1991
as Benito Sánchez
The Cage of Death
1990
Honeymoon Academy
1989
as Choirboy
A Christmas Carol
1989
Goitia: A God for Himself
1989
as Goitia
Hope
1988
as General
The Wrath of a God
1988
Reto a la vida
1988
as Doctor
Intriga contra México
1988
Zapata en Chinameca
1987
as Urbano Martínez
La mujer policía
1987
Contrabando y muerte
1986
Astucia
1986
as Tendero
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
1986
as Guillermo
Salvador
1986
as Archbishop Romero
Three of Cups
1986
as Narrator
Robachicos
1986
Wandering Lives
1985
as Francisco
Viaje al paraíso
1985
as Pajarito
Violent Stories
1985
Masacre en el río Tula
1985
as El Mulato
Toña Machetes
1985
Operacion marihuana
1985
El Mil Usos II
1984
Luna de sangre
1984
as Coco Loco
Noche de carnaval
1984
as Jincho
Mundo mágico
1983
Under the Shrapnel
1983
as Martin
Fuego en el mar
1981
as Manuel
Oficio de tinieblas
1981
El mil usos
1981
Cabo Blanco
1980
as Hernandez
Eagle's Wing
1979
as Lame Wolf
The Holy War
1979
as Celso Dominguez
Cananea
1978
as Manuel Diéguez
Who'll Stop the Rain
1978
as Galindez
The Children of Sanchez
1978
The Year of the Plague
1978
as Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
Rattlesnake
1977
as Tomás
El elegido
1977
as Judas
The Bricklayers
1976
as Jacinto Martínez
The Heist
1976
as El Carajo
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1976
Letters from Marusia
1975
as Argandoña
El valle de los miserables
1975
as Tío Chinto
Simon Blanco
1975
as Lic. Cardoso
La muerte de Pancho Villa
1974
Buck and the Preacher
1972
as Brave
They Call Him Marcado
1971
as el Manco
Emiliano Zapata
1970
Valentín de la Sierra
1968
The Scapular
1968
as Ruiz, soldado
Black Wind
1965
as Pablo Penagos
Major Dundee
1965
as Riago