
José Carlos Ruiz
Born: 1936-11-17
Place of Birth: Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico
Biography
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.
Known For

Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)

Fuego en el mar

The Year of the Plague

Reto a la vida

Violent Stories

Tell Me When

El elegido

24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver

Valentín de la Sierra

La posada

The Heist

El estudiante

El mil usos

The Bricklayers

The Scapular

El extensionista

El extensionista

They Call Him Marcado

Mundo mágico

The Holy War

Salvador

Suave Patria

Letters from Marusia

Viaje al paraíso

Operation Marihuana

Honeymoon Academy

Astucia

Black Wind

Toña Machetes

Wandering Lives

Simon Blanco

Cananea

Emiliano Zapata

El Garabato

Caboblanco

Crossing the Desert

Rattlesnake

The Scent of Death

Major Dundee

Buck and the Preacher

Tear This Heart Out

Eagle's Wing

El valle de los miserables

Who'll Stop the Rain

Tigers

Contrabando y muerte

The Miracle

Under the Shrapnel

Stormmaker

Guadalupe

Cruz de navajas

The Children of Sanchez

Benjamín

Snake Skin

Tribus Urbanas

Curandero

CARNAL

Zapata en Chinameca

Robachicos

Masacre en el río Tula

Two Crimes

Buddah's Head

Intriga contra México

Warehoused

Luna de sangre

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!

Hope

El Mil Usos II

Reclusorio III

Occupation of Darkness

Los perros de Dios

La muerte de Pancho Villa

The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell

Three of Cups

La mujer policía

El lado oscuro de la luz

One for the Road

Morenita: el escándalo

Las perversiones del padre José

Carnival Night

Goitia: A God for Himself

Más allá del muro

Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata

The Wrath of a God
