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Ernesto Gómez Cruz

Acting Born Nov 8, 1933 Puerto de Veracruz, Mexico 24 credits

Biography

Ernesto Gómez Cruz (November 8, 1933 - April 6, 2024) was a prolific Mexican actor with more than 154 films.

In his beginnings, he began as a photographer in his native Veracruz, where he met a friend who invited him to study dramatic art. In his notes from yesterday, he mentions that he wanted to be a singer, but his shyness and lack of preparation led him to abandon this path. He has more than two hundred films to his credit. He has worked with great directors such as Miguel Littin, Felipe Cazals, Arturo Ripstein and Luis Estrada; He has also worked with actors of the stature of Damián Alcázar, Ignacio López Tarso and Pedro Armendáriz Jr., among others.

His long artistic career has allowed him to be deserving and awarded with different recognitions; one of the most recent was in 2014, at the 56th Ariel award, where he was awarded the Ariel de Oro. He is the second Mexican actor with the most Ariel awards and nominations.

In 2018 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially invited him to be a special part of its new members.

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Known for

Film

El Infierno

as Don José Reyes

Full filmography

  • El Infierno (2010) as Don José Reyes
  • Laws of love (2018) as Plutarco
  • Mi segunda madre (1989) as Nacho
  • The Marked Hour (1988) as (Varios)
  • El vuelo del águila (1994) as Benito Juárez
  • Capadocia (2008) as Fernando Mirana
  • Las Lunas del Auditorio (2002) as Self
  • The Mexican (2001) as Tropillo
  • Hasta que te conocí (2016) as Juan "Juanito" Contreras
  • Bandidas (2006) as Brujo
  • María José (1995) as Serafín
  • Midaq Alley (1995) as Don Ru
  • Tal como somos (1987) as Marcelo
  • The Evil That Men Do (1984) as Café Owner
  • The Outsiders (1967) as El Azteca
  • El Norte (1983) as Arturo
  • Cómo Filmar Una XXX (2017)
  • The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002) as Obispo
  • Herod's Law (1999) as Gobernador
  • Violent Stories (1985)
  • The Cousin (2018) as Cacique gordo
  • Erendira (1983) as Grocer
  • El padre Gallo (1986) as Padre Gallo
  • Cosa fácil (1982) as Gilberto Gómez