
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.101 |
Birthday | 1936-11-17 |
Place of Birth | Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico |
Also Known As |

2021

CARNAL
0/0
Olivia confesses to a priest that she accepted a dinner invitation from a sophisticated and artistic couple. While Olivia feels a complex confusion ab...
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CARNAL

1976

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
5.3/9
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother a...
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Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!

1989

A Christmas Carol
2/1
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A Christmas Carol

1977

Rattlesnake
5.6/7
A filmmaker is commissioned to film a documentary on the social reality of the Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas. As he enters the harsh living...
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Rattlesnake

1986

Salvador
7/359
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military...
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Salvador

2002

Benjamín
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Benjamín

1987

La mujer policía
4/3
Mexican feature film
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La mujer policía

1986

Three of Cups
5.5/6
While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.
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Three of Cups

1985

Viaje al paraíso
4/5
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.
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Viaje al paraíso

1986

Robachicos
5/2
One woman and a detective are looking for lost children, in México City.
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Robachicos

1986

Astucia
5/4
Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...
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Astucia

1986

The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
4.5/4
Raul Araiza's chilling Spanish-language supernatural thriller tells the tale of two powerful beings, one good and one evil incarnate, fighting for con...
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The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell

2009

El estudiante
7.6/57
After retiring to the beautiful Mexican town of Guanajuato, a 70 year old decides to follow his dreams and enroll at the university where he stumbles...
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El estudiante

1970

Emiliano Zapata
5.9/9
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
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Emiliano Zapata

2008

El Garabato
7.2/8
The story of a naive young man, provincial and not very experienced, to whom the circumstances of destiny, when crossing with the beautiful Frida, lea...
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El Garabato

1985

Operacion marihuana
5/2
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Operacion marihuana

2006

Tribus Urbanas
5/1
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Tribus Urbanas

1965

Major Dundee
6.7/161
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on a...
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Major Dundee

1991

El extensionista
5.4/5
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El extensionista

1991

El extensionista
5.4/5
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El extensionista

1971

They Call Him Marcado
4.4/8
The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his father to...
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They Call Him Marcado

1975

Simon Blanco
5.3/3
The peasant and revolutionary Zapatista Simon Blanco still in arms but Zapata is dead. Simon with his lieutenant Andres visits his mother and his girl...
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Simon Blanco

2007

24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
5/1
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24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver

2012

Suave Patria
6/57
Oscar and Arthur are two actors without fortune who survive unemployment with a routine street, where one represents the thief and the other to the po...
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Suave Patria

2008

Cruz de navajas
5/1
A few crooks escape prison during a transfer of criminals and decide to hide in a church where they pretend to be priests. Ironically, they never susp...
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Cruz de navajas

2009

Morenita, El Escandalo
5.6/8
Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the venerated image of the Virgin of Guadalupe causing p...
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Morenita, El Escandalo

1976

The Heist
6.6/21
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out an...
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The Heist

1984

Noche de carnaval
6.6/5
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Noche de carnaval

1974

La muerte de Pancho Villa
5/4
After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
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La muerte de Pancho Villa

2005

Curandero
5.6/14
A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City
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Curandero

1983

Under the Shrapnel
5.1/7
A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets...
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Under the Shrapnel

1985

Masacre en el río Tula
6.2/15
Based on a real event, twelve dead bodies are found in the Tula River, we see the events that lead up to the massacre in a tale of crime, vice, corrup...
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Masacre en el río Tula

1988

The Wrath of a God
4.7/6
On the beach lies the body of Claudio O'Riley, heir to a monopoly shrimp, and his voice recounts his rise to power: the incestuous relationship with h...
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The Wrath of a God

2002

Snake Skin
5/2
After returning from a trip, a young dentist discovers that her home has been ransacked. Determined to recover part of her belongings, the protagonist...
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Snake Skin

2013

Dark Side of the Light
5/2
Powerful psychological thriller based on the true story of a serial murderer, who for his crimes, was sentenced to the electric chair and survived. Th...
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Dark Side of the Light

2015

One for the Road
7.5/45
Three octogenarians set out on a trip in order to fulfill the dying wish of a lifelong friend, in spite of the disapproval of their families and the l...
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One for the Road

2003

The Miracle
0/0
A miracle is about to happen, Margarita, like everyone wants to attend, but Alfonso, her husband, believes that everything is a sham.
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The Miracle

1972

Buck and the Preacher
6.2/55
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
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Buck and the Preacher

2009

Buddah's Head
3.7/3
Tomás, a famous and egocentric actor, buying a Buddha head in Lagunilla . In an attempt to avoid being robbed, the thief accidentally kills in self-de...
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Buddah's Head

1996

Jasmine blossoms
5.7/3
Luis is attempting suicide from the top level of a construction building when he is interrupted by Don Ramón who also wants to kill himself. The two m...
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Jasmine blossoms

1979

The Holy War
4.8/8
Through the humble potter Celso we will know one of the most dramatic events in the history of Mexico in the twentieth century, in which the federal g...
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The Holy War

2000

His Most Serene Highness
6.2/6
This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately co...
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His Most Serene Highness

1995

Two Crimes
5.1/10
After being falsely accused of a murder, Marcos runs away to the small and quiet town of Cuevano. There he finds that the family matters are more comp...
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Two Crimes

2006

Guadalupe
5/6
Jose Maria and his sister Mercedes are archaeologists who have been given a grant to study the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe, whom Juan Diego, an ord...
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Guadalupe

1985

Wandering Lives
5.4/5
Two traveling projectionists tour the villages of the mountains showing films in order to save money and build their own theater.
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Wandering Lives

2015

Warehoused
7.381/21
An employee about to retire and the young man who is to take over, share five journeys in the work place, an enormous empty warehouse where apparently...
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Warehoused

1989

Goitia: A God for Himself
3.6/9
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Goitia: A God for Himself

1988

Hope
5.2/10
At only 19 years old, Vladimir Olhosvky, fleeing the Russian Revolution and going into exile in Mexico City, will have to make his way in a new countr...
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Hope

2020

Tigers
0/0
A story centered on the centuries-old feud between the aristocratic vampire race and their former slaves, the werewolves.
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Tigers

2009

Más allá del muro
6.7/3
A house is to be demolished to make a parking lot. In the process, the children of an orphanage and the old people of an asylum, both neighbors of the...
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Más allá del muro

1979

Eagle's Wing
5.304/23
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meetin...
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Eagle's Wing

1978

Who'll Stop the Rain
6.538/66
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside...
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Who'll Stop the Rain

1965

Black Wind
7.9/21
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles be...
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Black Wind

2017

Stormmaker
4.1/7
Romero, a retired fisherman and a forgotten hero by the community, lives isolated in his home, surrounded by ghosts of the life he couldn't have, spir...
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Stormmaker

1990

The Cage of Death
5/2
An old man makes a pact with the devil to once again see the woman he loves... his niece.
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The Cage of Death

1994

Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
5/2
Five stories that tell the tale of winning the lottery in Mexico and how it changes lives.
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Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)

1976

The Bricklayers
6.429/28
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surround...
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The Bricklayers

1987

Zapata en Chinameca
5.8/4
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
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Zapata en Chinameca

1981

Fuego en el mar
5.4/7
Mariano works as chief driller on an oil platform in Campeche 14 days a month. However, he is obsessed with the idea that his wife Gloria is cheating...
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Fuego en el mar

1978

The Year of the Plague
5.1/16
A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and...
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The Year of the Plague

1981

El mil usos
6.9/12
The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds...
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El mil usos

1984

El Mil Usos II
6.3/6
Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.
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El Mil Usos II

1981

Oficio de tinieblas
4.8/5
"Occupation of Darkness" - Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The la...
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Oficio de tinieblas

1968

Valentín de la Sierra
5.6/6
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Valentín de la Sierra

1983

Mundo mágico
4.8/4
Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
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Mundo mágico

1977

El elegido
6.3/7
A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
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El elegido

1985

Violent Stories
5.7/7
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
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Violent Stories

1988

Intriga contra México
5/2
An international group is trying to destabilize Mexico by assassinating the President.
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Intriga contra México

1999

Reclusorio III
5/2
3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.
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Reclusorio III

1984

Luna de sangre
6/5
Mexican feature film
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Luna de sangre

1986

Contrabando y muerte
5/4
A young man gets involved in the drug trade and is murdered. His father sets out to find the killers.
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Contrabando y muerte

2008

Tear This Heart Out
8/112
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new fem...
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Tear This Heart Out

1988

Reto a la vida
5/2
Carlos has spent four years in prison for selling drugs. When he's released he finds out his brother has become a drug addict and is locked in a psych...
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Reto a la vida

2020

Tell Me When
6.6/58
After his grandfather's death, a young man decides to fulfill his elder's last wish with the help of his new friends. The problem starts when he falls...
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Tell Me When

1978

Cananea
5.6/5
Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are explo...
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Cananea

1978

The Children of Sanchez
5.7/6
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by...
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The Children of Sanchez

1985

Toña Machetes
5/7
A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man.
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Toña Machetes

1989

Honeymoon Academy
5.1/14
A honeymooning couple become entangled in a plot to recover plates for counterfeiting US dollars. SHE thinks she's just retired from a government 'dir...
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Honeymoon Academy

1975

El valle de los miserables
4.2/4
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El valle de los miserables

1993

Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
5/3
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Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata

1968

The Scapular
8.3/38
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe...
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The Scapular

2012

Crossing the Desert
4.4/5
Victor, a successful and well-respected businessman, is obsessed by the legend that an indigenous woman told him when he was a child. Victor lives a c...
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Crossing the Desert

1980

Cabo Blanco
5.3/33
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea ex...
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Cabo Blanco

1975

Letters from Marusia
5.3/13
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most ess...
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Letters from Marusia

1974

Los perros de Dios
4.6/5
Fantasy-life of an upper-class girl overwhelmed with spiritual questions.
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