- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- March 3, 1928
- Place of Birth
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Died
- July 6, 2016
Max Kerlow
Prolific Mexican actor with more than 100 films in his filmography. His first intention was to be a painter. However, life would take him on other paths and his incursion into the world of the arts would be as an architect, a career he studied at the suggestion of a cousin just out of school, given his interest in painting, and from which he graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1954. Shortly after, he dedicated himself to promoting crafts with artists such as Manuel Felguérez and Felipe Ehrenberg, one of his first assistants. With Felguérez he devised a different line of ceramics and with Ehrenberg he invented a technique for painting on amate paper, which he later taught to indigenous people in the facilities of his café-gallery La Amargura, located on the street of the same name in the San Ángel neighborhood. As a painter he only mounted one exhibition, alt…
Filmography
movieZiuta Travesías
2024 · Max Kerlow
movieOne Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017 · Self
movieNora's Will
2008 · Rabbi Jacowitz
movieLove, Pain and Vice Versa
2008 · Paciente anciano
movieEl Viaje de la Nonna
2008 · Public Notary
movieMy Mexican Shivah
2007 · Rubinstein
movieSea of Dreams
2006 · Glass blower
movieA Wonderful World
2006 · Sacerdote
movieLa última noche
2005 · Don Cecilio
movieEspíritu deportivo
2004 · Corsario Moreno
Remembrance
2003
movieLucía, Lucía
2003 · Old Wehner
movieI Murder Seriously
2002 · Don Eulalio
movieMoctezuma's Revenge
2002 · Sr. Malverde
movieCompassionate Sex
2000 · Vendedor de colmado
movieLuces de la noche
1998 · Engineer Klein
movieIf I Never See You Again
1997 · Gonzalo
movieEsmeralda Comes by Night
1997 · Priest in hospital
movieSex Education In Brief Lessons
1997
movieViva San Isidro!
1995 · Don Cayetano
Bodas Negras
1994
movieEl tesoro de Clotilde
1994 · Justo
movieThe Queen of the Night
1994 · Serge
moviePerfume, efecto inmediato
1994
movieKino: The Legend of the Black Priest
1993 · Italian Superior Priest
movieCómodas mensualidades
1992
movieJuegos nocturnos
1992
movieCabeza de Vaca
1991 · Man in armor
movieBandidos
1991 · Sacerdote
movieDentro de la noche
1991
movieLas buenas costumbres
1990 · Félix Morin
El cielo subterraneo
1988
movieMacho y hembras
1987
moviePasa en las mejores familias
1987
movieWhat Do You Think?
1986
movieFrida Still Life
1986 · Leon Trotsky
movieThe Humiliated
1986
Va de Nuez
1986
Murieron a la mitad del rio
1986 · Mr. Walker
movieCuentos de Principes y Princesas
1981
movieMaria of My Heart
1979 · Esposo de madrina
movieEn Defensa Propia
1978
movieNaufragio
1978 · Marino III
movieThe Bees
1978 · Representative at the United Nations - U.S.S.R.
moviePubertinaje
1978
movieThree Stories of Love
1978
movieThe Diabolical
1977 · Dueño de la tienda
movieLa casta divina
1977 · Arzobispo de Yucatán
movieBrothers of the Wind
1977 · Amberson
movieEl viaje
1977
movieThe Aztec Karate Fighter
1976 · Fritz Kartoffel
movieLas Poquianchis
1976 · Reportero (uncredited)
movieThe Heist
1976 · Preso del suéter amarillo
movieCelestina
1976
movieFoxtrot
1976 · Captain
movieEl perro y la calentura
1976
movieLetters from Marusia
1975 · Engineer
movieThe Coming of the King Olmos
1975
movieThose Years
1974 · Von Thun
movieThe Prophet Mimi
1973 · Don Paco
movieI Escaped from Devil's Island
1973 · Pelliserre
movieThe Mansion of Madness
1973 · Dr. Maillard
movieAunt Isabel's Garden
1972
movieReed: Insurgent Mexico
1972 · Antonio Swafeyta
movieThe Apple of Discord
1968