--- name: "José Carlos Ruiz" canonical: "https://film.one/person/jose-carlos-ruiz" fi1m_id: "jose-carlos-ruiz" imdb_id: "nm0137728" tmdb_id: 47885 wikidata_id: "Q827433" roles: [] born: "17 November 1936" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-26T01:24:49.213069+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # José Carlos Ruiz ## Identity José Carlos Ruiz - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jose-carlos-ruiz - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** jose-carlos-ruiz - **IMDb ID:** nm0137728 - **TMDB ID:** 47885 - **Wikidata ID:** Q827433 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Carlos_Ruiz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q827433, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137728/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/47885 Actor. Born 17 November 1936 in Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico. ## Details - **Born:** 17 November 1936, Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Carlos_Ruiz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q827433, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137728/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/47885 ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Salvador*](https://film.one/film/salvador.md) (74) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography José Carlos Ruiz is a Mexican actor. He was born on 17 November 1936 in Jerez de García Salinas, Zacatecas, and trained at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura. Ruiz began his film career in 1965 and has appeared in numerous Mexican films and telenovelas. He is known for roles including Archbishop Óscar Romero in *Salvador* (1986), Sabino Mercado in *Soy tu dueña* (2010) and Padre Julián in *Wild at Heart* (2013). He has also portrayed Benito Juárez in historical telenovelas. His credits include *Major Dundee* (1965), *María Isabel* (1997) and *Sortilegio* (2009). He is the father of actress Amaranta Ruiz. *Sources: imdb.com, es.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, themoviedb.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Salvador* (1986), Fi1m 74, as Archbishop Romero — [page](https://film.one/film/salvador.md) ## Complete filmography (108) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *La posada* (2023), as Carlos - *CARNAL* (2021), as Gonzalo - *Tell Me When* (2020), Actor - *Tigers* (2020), as Pascual el Viejo - *Laws of love* (2018), series, as Armando - *Stormmaker* (2017), Actor - *Warehoused* (2015), as Mr. Lino - *One for the Road* (2015), as Emiliano - *El lado oscuro de la luz* (2013), Actor - *Wild at Heart* (2013), series, as Padre Julián - *Suave Patria* (2012), as Jeronimo Natage - *Crossing the Desert* (2012), as Don Prudencio - *Soy tu dueña* (2010), series, as Sabino Mercado - *El estudiante* (2009), as Don Pedro - *Sortilegio* (2009), series, as Chucho - *Buddah's Head* (2009), as Invitado 3 - *Morenita: el escándalo* (2009), as Obispo - *Más allá del muro* (2009), Actor - *Tear This Heart Out* (2008), as Soriano - *Killer Women* (2008), series, as Comandante Quiroz - *Cruz de navajas* (2008), Actor - *El Garabato* (2008), as Commander Carmona - *Storm Over Paradise* (2007), series, as Ahzac - *24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver* (2007), Actor - *La Casa de los Amantes* (2007), as Charly - *Guadalupe* (2006), Actor - *Amar sin límites* (2006), series, as Don Aurelio Huerta - *Tribus Urbanas* (2006), Actor - *Curandero* (2005), as Don Carlos - *The Miracle* (2003), Actor - *Dark Fate* (2003), series, as Isidro Valtierra - *Las perversiones del padre José* (2003), Actor - *Las Vías del Amor* (2002), series, as Fidel Gutiérrez Arismendi - *Snake Skin* (2002), Actor - *Viaje Aterrador* (2002), as Alejandro - *Benjamín* (2002), Actor - *Atrévete a Olvidarme* (2001), series, as Cecilio Rabadán - *His Most Serene Highness* (2000), as Máximo Huerta - *La casa en la playa* (2000), series, as Severo Rincón - *Reclusorio III* (1999), Actor - *Soñadoras* (1998), series, as Don Eugenio de la Peña - *María Isabel* (1997), series, as Pedro - *Pueblo chico, infierno grande* (1997), series, as Arcadio - *Jasmine blossoms* (1996), as Don Ramón - *Morir dos veces* (1996), series, as Orduña - *Two Crimes* (1995), as Ramón - *Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)* (1994), Actor - *Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata* (1993), as Don Severo - *El extensionista* (1991), as Manuela, Benito Sánchez - *La jaula de la muerte* (1990), as Enrique - *For Better or for Worse* (1989), as Choirboy - *Goitia: A God for Himself* (1989), as Goitia - *A Christmas Carol* (1989), Actor - *Hope* (1988), as General - *The Wrath of a God* (1988), Actor - *Reto a la vida* (1988), as Doctor - *Intriga contra México* (1988), Actor - *The Scent of Death* (1987), as Mr. López - *Zapata en Chinameca* (1987), as Urbano Martínez - *Wandering Lives* (1987), as Francisco - *La mujer policía* (1987), Actor - *Contrabando y muerte* (1986), Actor - *Three of Cups* (1986), as Narrator - *Astucia* (1986), as Tendero - *The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell* (1986), as Guillermo - *Salvador* (1986), as Archbishop Romero — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/salvador.md) - *Robachicos* (1986), Actor - *Muchachita* (1985), series, as Pascual Sánchez - *Viaje al paraíso* (1985), as Pajarito - *Violent Stories* (1985), Actor - *Masacre en el río Tula* (1985), as El Mulato - *Toña Machetes* (1985), Actor - *Operation Marihuana* (1985), Actor - *El Mil Usos II* (1984), Actor - *La traición* (1984), series, as Cholo - *Luna de sangre* (1984), as Coco Loco - *Carnival Night* (1984), as Jincho - *Mundo mágico* (1983), Actor - *Under the Shrapnel* (1983), as Martin - *Fuego en el mar* (1981), as Manuel - *Occupation of Darkness* (1981), Actor - *El mil usos* (1981), Actor - *Caboblanco* (1980), as Hernandez - *Eagle's Wing* (1979), as Lame Wolf - *The Holy War* (1979), as Celso Dominguez - *Los hijos de Sanchez* (1978), Actor - *Cananea* (1978), as Manuel Diéguez - *Who'll Stop the Rain* (1978), as Galindez - *The Children of Sanchez* (1978), Actor - *The Year of the Plague* (1978), as Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo - *Rattlesnake* (1977), as Tomás - *El elegido* (1977), as Judas - *The Bricklayers* (1976), as Jacinto Martínez - *The Heist* (1976), as El Carajo - *The House in the South* (1976), as Peasant - *Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!* (1976), Actor - *Letters from Marusia* (1975), as Argandoña - *El valle de los miserables* (1975), as Tío Chinto - *Simon Blanco* (1975), as Lic. Cardoso - *The Dogs of God* (1974), as Javier Ortega / Priest / Man on the street - *La muerte de Pancho Villa* (1974), Actor - *Buck and the Preacher* (1972), as Brave - *They Call Him Marcado* (1971), as el Manco - *Emiliano Zapata* (1970), Actor - *Valentín de la Sierra* (1968), Actor - *The Scapular* (1968), as Ruiz, soldado - *Black Wind* (1965), as Pablo Penagos - *Major Dundee* (1965), as Riago ## Gallery - ![José Carlos Ruiz](https://film.one/media/person/3925068/gallery-de665b42dd65.jpg) José Carlos Ruiz — Milton Martínez / Secretaría de Cultura CDMX, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Jos%C3%A9_Carlos_Ruiz_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![José Carlos Ruiz](https://film.one/media/person/3925068/gallery-5210559c1a6a.jpg) José Carlos Ruiz — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. 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