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)
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
A Christmas Carol
Rattlesnake
(Tomás)
Salvador
(Archbishop Romero)
Benjamín
La mujer policía
Three of Cups
(Narrator)
Viaje al paraíso
(Pajarito)
Robachicos
Astucia
(Tendero)
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
(Guillermo)
El estudiante
(Don Pedro)
Emiliano Zapata
El Garabato
(Commander Carmona)
Operacion marihuana
Tribus Urbanas
Major Dundee
(Riago)
El extensionista
(Manuela)
El extensionista
(Benito Sánchez)
They Call Him Marcado
(el Manco)
Simon Blanco
(Lic. Cardoso)
24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
Suave Patria
(Jeronimo Natage)
Cruz de navajas
Morenita, El Escandalo
(Obispo)
The Heist
(El Carajo)
Noche de carnaval
(Jincho)
La muerte de Pancho Villa
Curandero
(Don Carlos)
Under the Shrapnel
(Martin)
Masacre en el río Tula
(El Mulato)
The Wrath of a God
Snake Skin
Dark Side of the Light
One for the Road
(Emiliano)
The Miracle
Buck and the Preacher
(Brave)
Buddah's Head
(Invitado 3)
Jasmine blossoms
(Don Ramón)
The Holy War
(Celso Dominguez)
His Most Serene Highness
(Máximo Huerta)
Two Crimes
(Ramón)
Guadalupe
Wandering Lives
(Francisco)
Warehoused
(Mr. Lino)
Goitia: A God for Himself
(Goitia)
Hope
(General)
Tigers
(Pascual el Viejo)
Más allá del muro
Eagle's Wing
(Lame Wolf)
Who'll Stop the Rain
(Galindez)
Black Wind
(Pablo Penagos)
Stormmaker
The Cage of Death
(Enrique)
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
The Bricklayers
(Jacinto Martínez)
Zapata en Chinameca
(Urbano Martínez)
Fuego en el mar
(Manuel)
The Year of the Plague
(Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo)
El mil usos
El Mil Usos II
Oficio de tinieblas
Valentín de la Sierra
Mundo mágico
El elegido
(Judas)
Violent Stories
Intriga contra México
Reclusorio III
Luna de sangre
(Coco Loco)
Contrabando y muerte
Tear This Heart Out
(Soriano)
Reto a la vida
(Doctor)
Tell Me When
Cananea
(Manuel Diéguez)
The Children of Sanchez
Toña Machetes
Honeymoon Academy
(Choirboy)
El valle de los miserables
(Tío Chinto)
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
(Don Severo)
The Scapular
(Ruiz, soldado)
Crossing the Desert
(Don Prudencio)
Cabo Blanco
(Hernandez)
Letters from Marusia
(Argandoña)
Los perros de Dios
Killer Women
(Comandante Quiroz)
Soy tu dueña
(Sabino Mercado)
Amar sin límites
(Don Aurelio Huerta)
Soñadoras
(Don Eugenio de la Peña)
Pueblo chico, infierno grande
(Arcadio)
Laws of love
(Armando)
Morir dos veces
(Orduña)
Las Vías del Amor
(Fidel Gutiérrez Arismendi)
La casa en la playa
(Severo Rincón)
Wild at Heart
(Padre Julián)
Atrévete a Olvidarme
(Cecilio Rabadán)
Sortilegio
(Chucho)
María Isabel
(Pedro)
Storm Over Paradise
(Ahzac)
Dark Fate
(Isidro Valtierra)