Portrait of Ernesto Gómez Cruz

Ernesto Gómez Cruz

Acting

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.

Born: November 8, 1933

Place of Birth: Puerto de Veracruz, Mexico

Filmography

2025
2018
Laws of love

as Plutarco

2018
The Cousin

as Cacique gordo

2016
2016
Hasta que te conocí

as Juan "Juanito" Contreras

2014
The Perfect Dictatorship

as Señor Humilde

2014
2013
Las Armas

as Gobernador Giner

2011
Así es la Suerte

as Esposo de Lidia

2011
Mudstained Flower

as Don Trini

2011
2010
Another Mexican

as Don Leodegario

2010
El Infierno

as Don José Reyes

2010
De la infancia

as Aguacate

2008
Capadocia

as Fernando Mirana

2006
A Wonderful World

as Compadre Filemón

2006
Crazy Carnival

as El indio

2006
Bandidas

as Brujo

2004
Santos Peregrinos

as Don Emiliano

2001
The Mexican

as Tropillo

2000
13 Días antes de vivir

as Fiscal Especial

1999
Herod's Law

as Gobernador

1999
Las delicias del poder

as Carmelo Barriga

1997
1995
Midaq Alley

as Don Ru

1994
El vuelo del águila

as Benito Juárez

1994
The Throne of Hell

as The Wizard

1994
Vagabunda

as Don Melitón

1993
1992
Lost Objects

as Professor Robles

1991
Highway Patrolman

as Comandante Navarro

1991
Latino Bar

as Blind musician

1991
Paty chula

as Mr. Gutierrez

1991
1990
Sandino

as Farabundo Martí

1989
Baroque

as El Indiano

1989
1989
1988
1988
The Marked Hour

as (Varios)

1988
Passport to Death

as Pancho the Peasant

1988
El rutas

as El Perro

1988
Neighborhood Rats

as Héctor Malagón Ruiz

1987
Mariana Mariana

as Gardener

1987
Los confines

as Juvencio Nava

1987
Zapata en Chinameca

as Pancracio Rodríguez

1986
The Realm of Fortune

as Dionisio Pinzón

1985
1984
1984
The Evil That Men Do

as Café Owner

1984
Las Lupitas

as José, el Carnicero

1983
El Norte

as Arturo

1983
Erendira

as Grocer

1982
Cosa fácil

as Gilberto Gómez

1982
The Eve

as Manuel Miranda

1982
Días de Combate

as Gilberto Gómez Letras

1982
A Married Woman

as Guillermo

1981
1981
Long live Tepito!

as Chucho / Jesús Ramírez

1981
Visita al Pasado

as Benito Juárez

1979
1979
Life Sentence

as Corporal Pantoja

1977
Rattlesnake

as Chankin

1977
The Mongol Plot

as Licenciado

1977
Maten al León

as Salvador Pereira

1975
1975
Tivoli

as engineer Reginaldo

1975
El valle de los miserables

as Comandante López

1975
Auandar Anapu

as Auándar Anapu

1974
Those Years

as Guillermo Prieto

1973
The Prophet Mimi

as Hermano Mackenzie

1973
Reed: Insurgent Mexico

as Pablo Seanez

1972
Los Cacos

as Arturo

1972
Los perturbados

as El Cacomistle (segment "La Obsesión")

1972
Tú, yo, nosotros

as Black outlaw

1972
Tacos al Carbón

as Uncredited

1971
El águila descalza

as Trabajador factoria

1971
There's Always a First Time

as Hilario (segment "Rosa")

1971
La Generala

as Cómplice de Feliciano

1970
El Quelite

as Gavillero

1967
Los Caifanes

as El Azteca