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Max Kerlow

1928-03-03 Mexico City, Mexico

Image of Max Kerlow

Biografia

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, although every day he drew and made caricatures from the news in the newspapers: "One ends up with more or less possibilities of doing what one wanted, although, as Picasso said, at this age is when one has more desire to do things; I feel that one understands them better, knows better what one wants to do, but it is already too late," he acknowledges in the documentary by Carolina Kerlow. However, it would be in the acting facet in which he would stand out the most and which would give Max Kerlow the most satisfaction. He began his career in Mexican cinema in 1963 under the direction of Juan José Gurrola in Confesión de Stavroguin. A friend of directors such as Paul Leduc, Felipe Cazals and Arturo Ripstein, it was natural for him to be invited to participate in their films, although Max Kerlow assured that he always liked acting: "I was invited to parties sometimes just to tell jokes; I have my diploma as a joke teller". He was also a magician. He was even able to combine his interests: "When Miguel Littin said "we are going to Chihuahua to film Actas de Marusia (1976), I took the opportunity to bring my catalogs and sold my crafts very well". And he was not just any actor making any movie. His film performances are proof of his histrionic quality. He participated in Las Poquianchis (1976), El apando (Felipe Cazals / 1976), Fox Trot (Arturo Ripstein / 1976); Frida, naturaleza viva (Paul Leduc / 1983), where he played the role of Leon Trotsky, Cabeza de Vaca (Nicolas Echevarria / 1991); Cómodas mensualidades (Julian Pastor / 1992); Kino (Felipe Cazals / 1993); De noche vienes Esmeralda (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo / 1997); La hija del caníbal o Lucía, Lucía (Antonio Serrano / 2003), Morirse está en hebreo (Alejandro Springall / 2007); Cinco días sin Nora (Mariana Chenillo, 2008). In 1998 he won the Ariel Award for best male co-acting for his performance in Por si no te vuelvo a ver (Juan Pablo Villaseñor, 1997), debut film of the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). In the Italian film Mediterráneo (1991), directed by Gabriele Salvatores, winner of the Oscar for best foreign film, Max Kerlow had a leading role. He also participated in documentaries and commercials.

Películas

Ziuta Travesías Max Kerlow 2024-07-05
Cien años con Juan Rulfo Self 2017-11-03
Cinco días sin Nora Rabbi Jacowitz 2008-10-06
El Viaje de la Nonna Public Notary 2008-02-07
Violanchelo Paciente anciano 2008-02-10
Morirse está en hebreo Rubinstein 2007-10-26
Sea of Dreams Glass blower 2006-11-09
Un mundo maravilloso Sacerdote 2006-03-17
La última noche Don Cecilio 2005-02-25
Espíritu deportivo Corsario Moreno 2004-10-01
La hija del caníbal Old Wehner 2003-01-17
Recuerdos 2003-07-19
Asesino en serio Don Eulalio 2002-10-11
Moctezuma's Revenge Sr. Malverde 2002-01-01
Sexo por compasión Vendedor de colmado 2000-06-30
Luces de la noche Engineer Klein 1998-05-29
Por si no te vuelvo a ver Gonzalo 1997-11-18
Educación sexual en breves lecciones 1997-07-25
De noche vienes, Esmeralda Priest in hospital 1997-09-05
Viva San Isidro! Don Cayetano 1995-04-13
La reina de la noche Serge 1994-09-07
El tesoro de Clotilde Justo 1994-11-03
Bodas Negras 1994-12-31
Perfume, efecto inmediato 1994-01-01
Kino Italian Superior Priest 1993-05-07
Cómodas mensualidades 1992-01-24
Juegos nocturnos 1992-01-01
Dentro de la noche 1991-01-01
Cabeza de Vaca Man in armor 1991-10-11
Bandidos Sacerdote 1991-08-09
Las buenas costumbres Félix Morin 1990-01-01
El cielo subterraneo 1988-01-01
Pasa en las mejores familias 1987-01-01
Macho y hembras 1987-01-01
Va de Nuez 1986-01-01
Frida, naturaleza viva Leon Trotsky 1986-03-13
Las inocentes 1986-01-01
Murieron a la mitad del rio Mr. Walker 1986-01-01
¿Cómo Ves? 1986-08-01
Cuentos de Principes y Princesas 1981-01-01
María de mi Corazón Esposo de madrina 1979-05-17
En defensa propia 1978-11-15
Naufragio Marino III 1978-11-02
Tres historias de amor 1978-01-01
The Bees Representative at the United Nations - U.S.S.R. 1978-11-01
Los hermanos del viento Amberson 1977-08-24
El viaje 1977-06-28
El diabólico Dueño de la tienda 1977-11-24
La casta divina Arzobispo de Yucatán 1977-11-17
Foxtrot Captain 1976-03-01
Las poquianchis Reportero (uncredited) 1976-11-17
Celestina 1976-01-01
El karateca azteca Fritz Kartoffel 1976-11-24
El perro y la calentura 1976-01-01
El Apando Preso del suéter amarillo 1976-08-05
La venida del rey Olmos 1975-09-11
Actas de Marusia Engineer 1975-12-26
Aquellos años Von Thun 1974-03-21
I Escaped from Devil's Island Pelliserre 1973-09-01
El Profeta Mimí Don Paco 1973-12-27
La mansión de la locura Dr. Maillard 1973-08-10
Reed, México Insurgente Antonio Swafeyta 1973-01-05
El jardín de la tía Isabel 1972-04-05
Pubertinaje 1971-02-09
La manzana de la discordia 1968-01-01