José Carlos Ruiz
Acting
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.
La posada
Carlos
CARNAL
Gonzalo
Tell Me When
Tigers
Pascual el Viejo
Stormmaker
Warehoused
Mr. Lino
One for the Road
Emiliano
El lado oscuro de la luz
Suave Patria
Jeronimo Natage
Crossing the Desert
Don Prudencio
El estudiante
Don Pedro
Buddah's Head
Invitado 3
Morenita: el escándalo
Obispo
Más allá del muro
Tear This Heart Out
Soriano
Cruz de navajas
El Garabato
Commander Carmona
24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
Guadalupe
Tribus Urbanas
Curandero
Don Carlos
The Miracle
Las perversiones del padre José
Viaje Aterrador
Alejandro
Snake Skin
Benjamín
His Most Serene Highness
Máximo Huerta
Reclusorio III
Jasmine blossoms
Don Ramón
Two Crimes
Ramón
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
Don Severo
El extensionista
Benito Sánchez
El extensionista
Manuela
La jaula de la muerte
Enrique
Honeymoon Academy
Choirboy
Goitia: A God for Himself
Goitia
A Christmas Carol
Hope
General
The Wrath of a God
Reto a la vida
Doctor
Intriga contra México
The Scent of Death
Mr. López
Zapata en Chinameca
Urbano Martínez
Wandering Lives
Francisco
La mujer policía
Contrabando y muerte
Astucia
Tendero
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
Guillermo
Salvador
Archbishop Romero
Three of Cups
Narrator
Robachicos
Viaje al paraíso
Pajarito
Violent Stories
Masacre en el río Tula
El Mulato
Toña Machetes
Operation Marihuana
El Mil Usos II
Luna de sangre
Coco Loco
Carnival Night
Jincho
Mundo mágico
Under the Shrapnel
Martin
Fuego en el mar
Manuel
Occupation of Darkness
El mil usos
Caboblanco
Hernandez
Eagle's Wing
Lame Wolf
The Holy War
Celso Dominguez
Cananea
Manuel Diéguez
Who'll Stop the Rain
Galindez
The Children of Sanchez
The Year of the Plague
Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
Rattlesnake
Tomás
El elegido
Judas
The Bricklayers
Jacinto Martínez
The Heist
El Carajo
The House in the South
Peasant
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Letters from Marusia
Argandoña
El valle de los miserables
Tío Chinto
Simon Blanco
Lic. Cardoso
The Dogs of God
Javier Ortega / Priest / Man on the street
La muerte de Pancho Villa
Buck and the Preacher
Brave
They Call Him Marcado
el Manco
Emiliano Zapata
Valentín de la Sierra
The Scapular
Ruiz, soldado
Black Wind
Pablo Penagos
Major Dundee
Riago