Wolf Ruvinskis

Acting

Wolf Ruvinskis

Born 1921-10-30 · Riga, Latvia

Of Jewish origins, Wolf Ruvinskis Manevics was born in 1921 in Riga (Latvia), but fearing persecution during World War II his family relocated to Argentina, where they lived in extreme poverty. In spite of his deprived childhood, Wolf excelled in sports and became interested in wrestling. When he was 19 years old he started his professional career and toured South America, the United States and Mexico, where he decided to stay. Although he stayed on the ring until the 1960s - in matches with top Mexican wrestlers, as El Santo, Black Shadow, El Médico Asesino and Lobo Negro - Wolf was also a tango singer and a magician, and in 1949 he was called to act on the stage and in films. One of his biggest successes was _Bestia magnífica, La (1953)_, the first in a series of movies centered on Neutron, a character he created. His popularity was firmly established with his role as the handsome rural boy who becomes the victim of a mad scientist in the cult film The Body Snatcher (1957), he was a regular performer in all kinds of movies until the 1990's and was nominated for an Ariel as Best Supporting Actor for _Juego limpio (1996/II)_. He was also a businessman, and married three times: to Beatriz Perez, to dancer Armida Herrera, and to actress Lilia Micheluntil his death in 1999.

Acting credits

Mi campeón poster
5.5

Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.

Mi campeón

1952

Hipócrita..! poster
6.1

A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.

Hipócrita..!

1949

La estrella vacía poster
6.6

Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.

La estrella vacía

1960

Días de combate poster
5.3

A novice private detective is on the trail of a serial strangler in Mexico City.

Días de combate

1994

Bajo un mismo rostro poster
5.8

Two twin sisters have completely different ways of loving: to one love is profound, to the other is carnal.

Bajo un mismo rostro

1962

The Magnificent Beast poster
5.7

Two very good friends become wrestlers to leave poverty behind, but the arrival of an ambitious woman will tragically change their destinies.

The Magnificent Beast

1953

Los Verduleros poster
7.4

The adventures of two friends, one a chicken vendor in a market and the other a policeman. They have love affairs and capture criminals.

Los Verduleros

1986

Wild Love poster
5.5

Alma leaves Panama to go live with her aunt Antonia and with Manuel, her husband. There she meets Julio, who tries to woo her.

Wild Love

1950

El patrullero 777 poster
7.9

Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.

El patrullero 777

1978

El hombre del puente poster
6.0

A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.

El hombre del puente

1976

The Sleeping Beauty poster
7.3

A Mexican comedy loosely playing off of the tale of Sleeping Beauty. A caveman wakes up after a thousand year slumber. When he awakens he is seen as a wonder to behold, and discovers his ancient love and romantic rival are seemingly still alive as well.

The Sleeping Beauty

1952

Mr. Photographer poster
8.3

Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...

Mr. Photographer

1953

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra! poster
5.7

Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.

Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!

1976

El señor doctor poster
8.0

It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.

El señor doctor

1965

Bonampak poster
6.7

The film narrates the discovery of the last great Mayan city, which occurred during the spring of 1946. It is the story of Charles Frey, a smuggler of archaeological pieces who upon hearing some legends about the immense riches that the jungle regions of southeastern Mexico keep, decides to go looking for him. After several months and a point of giving up, Frey detects some archaeological evidence of the Mayan culture, so he continues his explorations until he finds the majestic city of Bonampak.

Bonampak

1989

Tailored gentleman poster
7.3

Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the street along with an advertising sign on his back. The use of smoking gives you access to exclusive places and meet important people. During this time, Cantinflas was the manager of an amateur boxer, it is an attractive nurse assistant and occasionally attending a priest in the church and the orphanage. However, a Cantinflas day while wearing tuxedo, is a rich man, who mistakenly believe that Cantinflas is a millionaire too.

Tailored gentleman

1954

El Secuestro De Lola - Lola La Trailera 2 poster
5.9

No synopsis available yet.

El Secuestro De Lola - Lola La Trailera 2

1986

The Body Snatcher poster
5.9

A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...

The Body Snatcher

1957

El jinete enmascarado poster
6.7

Horseman. With a mask on. First in a series, "El Norteño."

El jinete enmascarado

1961

The Hawks poster
6.7

The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill each other. One of them belongs to Los Gavilanes, a group of men who live live hidden and looting to give to the poor. Revenge, love and hate will at the end bring out the truth and everyone will get what he deserves.

The Hawks

1956

Chido Guan, el tacos de oro poster
5.8

Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.

Chido Guan, el tacos de oro

1986

The Man Without a Face poster
6.4

A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.

The Man Without a Face

1950

The Realm of Fortune poster
5.3

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.

The Realm of Fortune

1986

Born to Love poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Born to Love

1959

Behind the camera