José Carlos Ruiz

Known for ActingBorn 1936-11-17 (age 89)Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Miracle

Benjamín

Morir dos veces

Muchachita

La casa en la playa

Laws of love

La posada

Pueblo chico, infierno grande

Tear This Heart Out

The Scapular

Wild at Heart

El estudiante

Soy tu dueña

Killer Women

Sortilegio

One for the Road

Warehoused

Black Wind

Soñadoras

La traición

María Isabel

Storm Over Paradise

Dark Fate

El mil usos

Salvador

El elegido

Tell Me When

Más allá del muro

Las Vías del Amor

Atrévete a Olvidarme

Carnival Night

Reclusorio III

The Scent of Death

El Garabato

Reto a la vida

Operation Marihuana

Luna de sangre

Zapata en Chinameca

Amar sin límites

Suave Patria

Toña Machetes

Masacre en el río Tula

His Most Serene Highness

The Bricklayers

Major Dundee

The Heist

The Children of Sanchez

Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)