José Carlos Ruiz
Born
November 17, 1936 (88 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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.

CARNAL
Gonzalo
2021

Tell Me When
2020

Tigers
Pascual el Viejo
2020

Laws of love
Armando · (2 episodes)
2018

Stormmaker
2017

Warehoused
Mr. Lino
2015

One for the Road
Emiliano
2015

El lado oscuro de la luz
2013

Wild at Heart
Padre Julián · (162 episodes)
2013

Suave Patria
Jeronimo Natage
2012

Crossing the Desert
Don Prudencio
2012

Soy tu dueña
Sabino Mercado · (146 episodes)
2010

El estudiante
Don Pedro
2009

Sortilegio
Chucho · (90 episodes)
2009

Buddah's Head
Invitado 3
2009

Morenita, El Escandalo
Obispo
2009

Más allá del muro
2009

Tear This Heart Out
Soriano
2008

Killer Women
Comandante Quiroz · (1 episode)
2008

Cruz de navajas
2008

El Garabato
Commander Carmona
2008

Storm Over Paradise
Ahzac · (4 episodes)
2007

24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
2007

Guadalupe
2006

Amar sin límites
Don Aurelio Huerta · (135 episodes)
2006

Tribus Urbanas
2006

Curandero
Don Carlos
2005

The Miracle
2003

Dark Fate
Isidro Valtierra · (135 episodes)
2003

Las perversiones del padre José
2003

Las Vías del Amor
Fidel Gutiérrez Arismendi · (220 episodes)
2002

Benjamín
2002

Snake Skin
2002

Atrévete a Olvidarme
Cecilio Rabadán · (26 episodes)
2001
His Most Serene Highness
Máximo Huerta
2000

La casa en la playa
Severo Rincón · (65 episodes)
2000

Reclusorio III
1999

Soñadoras
Don Eugenio de la Peña · (174 episodes)
1998

María Isabel
Pedro · (125 episodes)
1997

Pueblo chico, infierno grande
Arcadio · (150 episodes)
1997
Jasmine blossoms
Don Ramón
1996

Morir dos veces
Orduña · (55 episodes)
1996

Two Crimes
Ramón
1995

Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
1994

Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
Don Severo
1993

El extensionista
Manuela
1991

El extensionista
Benito Sánchez
1991
The Cage of Death
Enrique
1990

Honeymoon Academy
Choirboy
1989
A Christmas Carol
1989

Goitia: A God for Himself
Goitia
1989

Hope
General
1988

The Wrath of a God
1988

Reto a la vida
Doctor
1988

Intriga contra México
1988

Zapata en Chinameca
Urbano Martínez
1987

La mujer policía
1987

Contrabando y muerte
1986

Astucia
Tendero
1986

The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
Guillermo
1986

Salvador
Archbishop Romero
1986

Three of Cups
Narrator
1986

Robachicos
1986

Wandering Lives
Francisco
1985

Viaje al paraíso
Pajarito
1985

Violent Stories
1985

Masacre en el río Tula
El Mulato
1985

Toña Machetes
1985

Operacion marihuana
1985

El Mil Usos II
1984

Luna de sangre
Coco Loco
1984

Noche de carnaval
Jincho
1984

Mundo mágico
1983

Under the Shrapnel
Martin
1983

Fuego en el mar
Manuel
1981

Oficio de tinieblas
1981

El mil usos
1981

Caboblanco
Hernandez
1980

Eagle's Wing
Lame Wolf
1979

The Holy War
Celso Dominguez
1979

Cananea
Manuel Diéguez
1978

Who'll Stop the Rain
Galindez
1978

The Children of Sanchez
1978

The Year of the Plague
Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
1978

Rattlesnake
Tomás
1977

El elegido
Judas
1977

The Bricklayers
Jacinto Martínez
1976

The Heist
El Carajo
1976

The House in the South
Peasant
1976

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1976

Letters from Marusia
Argandoña
1975

El valle de los miserables
Tío Chinto
1975

Simon Blanco
Lic. Cardoso
1975

Los perros de Dios
1974

La muerte de Pancho Villa
1974

Buck and the Preacher
Brave
1972

They Call Him Marcado
el Manco
1971

Emiliano Zapata
1970

Valentín de la Sierra
1968

The Scapular
Ruiz, soldado
1968

Black Wind
Pablo Penagos
1965

Major Dundee
Riago
1965