Cast & creator
José Carlos Ruiz
Best known for Wild at Heart, Laws of love, Soy tu dueña
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.
92
film credits
17
television credits
109
1965–2023 · acting roles
6.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (109)
Showing 109 of 109 credits
Wild at Heart
Padre Julián
2013
Laws of love
Armando
2018
Soy tu dueña
Sabino Mercado
2010
Las Vías del Amor
Fidel Gutiérrez Arismendi
2002
Storm Over Paradise
Ahzac
2007
Killer Women
Comandante Quiroz
2008
Pueblo chico, infierno grande
Arcadio
1997
María Isabel
Pedro
1997
Soñadoras
Don Eugenio de la Peña
1998
Dark Fate
Isidro Valtierra
2003
Sortilegio
Chucho
2009
Amar sin límites
Don Aurelio Huerta
2006
La casa en la playa
Severo Rincón
2000
La traición
Cholo
1984
Muchachita
Pascual Sánchez
1985
Major Dundee
Riago
1965
Atrévete a Olvidarme
Cecilio Rabadán
2001
Who'll Stop the Rain
Galindez
1978
Salvador
Archbishop Romero
1986
Buck and the Preacher
Brave
1972
Tear This Heart Out
Soriano
2008
Morir dos veces
Orduña
1996
La Casa de los Amantes
Charly
2007
Eagle's Wing
Lame Wolf
1979
Caboblanco
Hernandez
1980
Violent Stories
1985
Toña Machetes
1985
Tigers
Pascual el Viejo
2020
Rattlesnake
Tomás
1977
Tribus Urbanas
2006
For Better or for Worse
Choirboy
1989
Tell Me When
2020
Wandering Lives
Francisco
1987
The Children of Sanchez
1978
Simon Blanco
Lic. Cardoso
1975
El Garabato
Commander Carmona
2008
El valle de los miserables
Tío Chinto
1975
Los hijos de Sanchez
1978
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
1994
Three of Cups
Narrator
1986
The Year of the Plague
Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
1978Viaje Aterrador
Alejandro
2002
Goitia: A God for Himself
Goitia
1989
Snake Skin
2002
Letters from Marusia
Argandoña
1975
24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
2007
The Dogs of God
Javier Ortega / Priest / Man on the street
1974
The House in the South
Peasant
1976
The Miracle
2003
One for the Road
Emiliano
2015
CARNAL
Gonzalo
2021
Benjamín
2002
Las perversiones del padre José
2003
The Wrath of a God
1988
Masacre en el río Tula
El Mulato
1985
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1976
La posada
Carlos
2023
Guadalupe
2006
El Mil Usos II
1984
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
Guillermo
1986Jasmine blossoms
Don Ramón
1996
Más allá del muro
2009
Viaje al paraíso
Pajarito
1985
Buddah's Head
Invitado 3
2009
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
Don Severo
1993
Astucia
Tendero
1986
Valentín de la Sierra
1968
The Bricklayers
Jacinto Martínez
1976
La muerte de Pancho Villa
1974His Most Serene Highness
Máximo Huerta
2000
Fuego en el mar
Manuel
1981
Suave Patria
Jeronimo Natage
2012
Emiliano Zapata
1970
Hope
General
1988
Two Crimes
Ramón
1995
Crossing the Desert
Don Prudencio
2012
Curandero
Don Carlos
2005
Reto a la vida
Doctor
1988
Under the Shrapnel
Martin
1983
El lado oscuro de la luz
2013
A Christmas Carol
1989
The Scapular
Ruiz, soldado
1968
El extensionista
Manuela
1991El extensionista
Benito Sánchez
1991
Occupation of Darkness
1981
El estudiante
Don Pedro
2009
Reclusorio III
1999
Stormmaker
2017La jaula de la muerte
Enrique
1990
The Heist
El Carajo
1976
The Scent of Death
Mr. López
1987
El mil usos
1981
They Call Him Marcado
el Manco
1971
Cananea
Manuel Diéguez
1978
La mujer policía
1987
Operation Marihuana
1985
Luna de sangre
Coco Loco
1984
Morenita: el escándalo
Obispo
2009
El elegido
Judas
1977
Black Wind
Pablo Penagos
1965
Mundo mágico
1983
Cruz de navajas
2008
Zapata en Chinameca
Urbano Martínez
1987
Intriga contra México
1988
Robachicos
1986
Contrabando y muerte
1986
Warehoused
Mr. Lino
2015
Carnival Night
Jincho
1984
The Holy War
Celso Dominguez
1979