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.
Photos
Films (104)

La posada
2023 · Carlos

Agua de Arrayan
2022

CARNAL
2021 · Gonzalo

Tell Me When
2020

Tigers
2020 · Pascual el Viejo

Stormmaker
2018

Warehoused
2015 · Mr. Lino

One for the Road
2015 · Emiliano

El lado oscuro de la luz
2013

Suave Patria
2012 · Jeronimo Natage

Crossing the Desert
2012 · Don Prudencio

El estudiante
2009 · Don Pedro

Buddah's Head
2009 · Invitado 3

Morenita: el escándalo
2009 · Obispo

Más allá del muro
2009

Tear This Heart Out
2008 · Soriano

Cruz de navajas
2008

El Garabato
2008 · Commander Carmona

Paper Cemetery
2007 · Everardo

24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
2007

La Casa de los Amantes
2007 · Charly

Guadalupe
2006

Tribus Urbanas
2006
Te metiste a mi cama
2005

Curandero
2005 · Don Carlos

The Miracle
2003

Las perversiones del padre José
2003

Los muertos que nos dieron la vida
2003

Paredes pintadas
2003

Benjamín
2002

Snake Skin
2002
Viaje Aterrador
2002 · Alejandro
His Most Serene Highness
2000 · Máximo Huerta

Reclusorio III
1999

Chamula, tierra de sangre
1999 · Presidente Municipal
A medias tintas
1999 · Dr. Zambrano

La crisis me da risa
1997
Jasmine blossoms
1996 · Don Ramón

Two Crimes
1995 · Ramón

Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
1994

Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
1993 · Don Severo

La loteria
1993 · Policarpo (El mala-suerte)

La tumba del Atlantico
1992 · Chito Cardona

Amor y venganza
1991 · Aurelio Morán

El extensionista
1991 · Manuela, Benito Sánchez

Maria la guerrillera
1991 · Moisés Lozoya
La jaula de la muerte
1990 · Enrique

For Better or for Worse
1989 · Choirboy

Goitia: A God for Himself
1989 · Goitia

A Christmas Carol
1989

Hope
1988 · General

The Wrath of a God
1988

Reto a la vida
1988 · Doctor

Intriga contra México
1988

The Scent of Death
1987 · Mr. López

Zapata en Chinameca
1987 · Urbano Martínez

Wandering Lives
1987 · Francisco

La mujer policía
1987

Contrabando y muerte
1986

Three of Cups
1986 · Narrator

Astucia
1986 · Tendero

The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
1986 · Guillermo

Salvador
1986 · Archbishop Romero

Robachicos
1986

Viaje al paraíso
1985 · Pajarito

Violent Stories
1985

Masacre en el río Tula
1985 · El Mulato

Toña Machetes
1985

Operation Marihuana
1985

El Mil Usos II
1984

Luna de sangre
1984 · Coco Loco

Carnival Night
1984 · Jincho

Mundo mágico
1983

Under the Shrapnel
1983 · Martin

Guerrillero Del Norte
1983 · Profesor

Fuego en el mar
1981 · Manuel

Occupation of Darkness
1981

El mil usos
1981

Caboblanco
1980 · Hernandez

Eagle's Wing
1979 · Lame Wolf

The Holy War
1979 · Celso Dominguez

Los hijos de Sanchez
1978

Cananea
1978 · Manuel Diéguez

Who'll Stop the Rain
1978 · Galindez

The Children of Sanchez
1978

The Year of the Plague
1978 · Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo

Rattlesnake
1977 · Tomás

El elegido
1977 · Judas

The Bricklayers
1976 · Jacinto Martínez

The Heist
1976 · El Carajo

The House in the South
1976 · Peasant

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1976

Letters from Marusia
1975 · Argandoña

El valle de los miserables
1975 · Tío Chinto

Simon Blanco
1975 · Lic. Cardoso

The Dogs of God
1974 · Javier Ortega / Priest / Man on the street

La muerte de Pancho Villa
1974

Buck and the Preacher
1972 · Brave

They Call Him Marcado
1971 · el Manco

Emiliano Zapata
1970

Valentín de la Sierra
1968

The Scapular
1968 · Ruiz, soldado

Black Wind
1965 · Pablo Penagos

Major Dundee
1965 · Riago
Séries (17)

Por amar sin ley
2018 · Armando

Wild at Heart
2013 · Padre Julián

Soy tu dueña
2010 · Sabino Mercado

Sortilège
2009 · Chucho

Killer Women
2008 · Comandante Quiroz

Storm Over Paradise
2007 · Ahzac

Amar sin límites
2006 · Don Aurelio Huerta

Dark Fate
2003 · Isidro Valtierra

Las Vías del Amor
2002 · Fidel Gutiérrez Arismendi

Atrévete a Olvidarme
2001 · Cecilio Rabadán

La casa en la playa
2000 · Severo Rincón

Soñadoras
1998 · Don Eugenio de la Peña

María Isabel
1997 · Pedro

Pueblo chico, infierno grande
1997 · Arcadio

Morir dos veces
1996 · Orduña

Muchachita
1985 · Pascual Sánchez

La traición
1984 · Cholo

