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.
107 acting credits
Acting · 107
Wild at Heart
2013
Killer Women
2008
Laws of love
2018
Sortilegio
2009
María Isabel
1997
Storm Over Paradise
2007
Soñadoras
1998
Dark Fate
2003
Las Vías del Amor
2002
Soy tu dueña
2010
La traición
1984
Morir dos veces
1996
Salvador
1986
Pueblo chico, infierno grande
1997
La casa en la playa
2000
Major Dundee
1965
For Better or for Worse
1989
Amar sin límites
2006
Who'll Stop the Rain
1978
Buck and the Preacher
1972
Caboblanco
1980
Atrévete a Olvidarme
2001
Tear This Heart Out
2008
The Children of Sanchez
1978
The Year of the Plague
1978
Muchachita
1985
Eagle's Wing
1979
The Bricklayers
1976
Curandero
2005
Masacre en el río Tula
1985
El estudiante
2009
Violent Stories
1985
Crossing the Desert
2012
The Scapular
1968
El Garabato
2008
Two Crimes
1995
Rattlesnake
1977
El mil usos
1981
Goitia: A God for Himself
1989
Black Wind
1965
Suave Patria
2012
Snake Skin
2002
El extensionista
1991
Carnival Night
1984
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
1986
Zapata en Chinameca
1987
The Wrath of a God
1988
El Mil Usos II
1984
Fuego en el mar
1981
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1976
Cananea
1978
El elegido
1977
Warehoused
2015
La posada
2023
El valle de los miserables
1975
Tell Me When
2020
The Miracle
2003
The Heist
1976
Letters from Marusia
1975
Astucia
1986
The Dogs of God
1974
Simon Blanco
1975
Operation Marihuana
1985
Hope
1988
Reclusorio III
1999
They Call Him Marcado
1971
Tigers
2020
The Holy War
1979
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
1994
Más allá del muro
2009
Luna de sangre
1984
The Scent of Death
1987
Emiliano Zapata
1970
Valentín de la Sierra
1968
CARNAL
2021
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
1993
Reto a la vida
1988
Guadalupe
2006
Los hijos de Sanchez
1978
Viaje al paraíso
1985
The House in the South
1976
Robachicos
1986
La jaula de la muerte
1990
Contrabando y muerte
1986
Morenita: el escándalo
2009
Buddah's Head
2009
Toña Machetes
1985
El lado oscuro de la luz
2013
Cruz de navajas
2008
Occupation of Darkness
1981
Stormmaker
2017
One for the Road
2015
La muerte de Pancho Villa
1974
Intriga contra México
1988
Mundo mágico
1983
Las perversiones del padre José
2003
Jasmine blossoms
1996
Under the Shrapnel
1983
Tribus Urbanas
2006
Three of Cups
1986
Benjamín
2002
24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
2007
Wandering Lives
1987
His Most Serene Highness
2000
La mujer policía
1987
Viaje Aterrador
2002
A Christmas Carol
1989