
José Carlos Ruiz
Born November 17, 1936 · 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.
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El Garabato

Los hijos de Sanchez

Tribus Urbanas

Simon Blanco

Three of Cups

The Miracle

Suave Patria

Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)

Wandering Lives

The Year of the Plague

La muerte de Pancho Villa

Tell Me When

Buddah's Head

Letters from Marusia

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!

Goitia: A God for Himself

Benjamín

El Mil Usos II

Snake Skin

El valle de los miserables

Rattlesnake

La posada

One for the Road

Masacre en el río Tula

The Wrath of a God

Fuego en el mar

The Bricklayers

24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver

Emiliano Zapata

Más allá del muro

The Dogs of God

The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell

Curandero

The House in the South

Under the Shrapnel

A Christmas Carol

Stormmaker

The Scent of Death

Valentín de la Sierra

Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata

Two Crimes

Crossing the Desert

Reto a la vida

Reclusorio III

Guadalupe

Las perversiones del padre José

Viaje al paraíso

Black Wind

Hope

The Scapular

Occupation of Darkness

Cananea

Luna de sangre

El estudiante

CARNAL

Zapata en Chinameca

Robachicos

The Heist

They Call Him Marcado

Astucia

Morenita: el escándalo

El mil usos

El lado oscuro de la luz

Operation Marihuana

Mundo mágico

Carnival Night

El extensionista

The Holy War

El elegido

Cruz de navajas

Contrabando y muerte

Intriga contra México

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