
Acting
Wolf Ruvinskis
Born — Died
1921-10-30 — 1999-11-09
Place of birth
Riga, Latvia
Known for
Acting
Credits
62 titles
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 bi…
Known for
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Mañana es primavera
1982
8.0It'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
7.9Follows 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
7.4Cantinflas 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
8.3Cantinflas, 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
8.1Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
La Vida No Vale Nada
1955
Film credits
1990s · 1 titles
1980s · 8 titles
7.3The 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
5.3Poor 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
6.3Young man grows up thinking that his father's murderer is dead but wanting revenge against the guys who hired him to commit that crime.
Los Matones Del Norte
1985
5.9No synopsis available yet.
El Secuestro De Lola - Lola La Trailera 2
1986
6.7The 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
6.8Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
Knock Out
1984
5.7A series of murders have occurred in the uppermost circles of society. Detective Felipe Fierro vows to solve the killings, or die trying (which is a strong possibility).
A garrote limpio
1985
5.8Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.
Chido Guan, el tacos de oro
1986
1970s · 6 titles
7.9Follows 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
5.7Librado, 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
6.1Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and wife become the victims of his selfish rule. Once the evil man's deeds reach the authorities on the mainland, however, he sinks further into madness and declares "his" island its own republic.
Island of Lost Souls
1974
7.0A young woman of wealthy class rejects the world that surrounds her and dies, but in her wake a shaman resuscitates her. She is dedicated to transgressing all the rules of her society. In the end a strange character offers him a flower and they both love each other.
Descenso del País de la Noche
1974
6.7On the border between Mexico and the United States, there is a man willing to do anything. Handsome and adventurous, he prepares to live a new life that will make him a legend.
The Mexican
1977
6.0A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.
El hombre del puente
1976
1960s · 16 titles
8.0It'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
5.7The evil scientist Dr. Caronte plots to revive the brains of three dead scientists and use them to obtain the formula for the super-powerful neutron bomb. The resulting creation needs blood lots of blood, sending Caronte's midget assistant Nick and his legion of mutant monsters out to get fresh victims. However, the masked atom-superman Neutron vows to put a stop to Caronte's deeds.
Neutron the Atomic Superman vs. the Death Robots
1962
5.3Neutron, a masked wrestler/superhero, battles a gang of crooks who are plotting to steal a secret formula.
Neutron and the Black Mask
1962
5.1Neutron, a superhero/wrestler, goes up against a mad scientist and his army of monsters.
Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte
1963
5.8Two twin sisters have completely different ways of loving: to one love is profound, to the other is carnal.
Bajo un mismo rostro
1962
5.5Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
Los tigres del ring
1960
6.4The story of The Last Hours of Jesus Christ.
El proceso de Cristo
1966
5.7In this Mexican sci-fi fantasy, big beefy Martians invade the earth. Ostensibly, they have come to warn people about the dangers of nuclear testing and exploring space, but their real mission becomes manifest when they begin using their special powers and gadgets to exploit weak earthlings.
Santo vs. the Martian Invasion
1967
5.1The Sabine tribe battles Romulus in the early days of Rome after Romans seize their women as unwilling brides.
The Shame of the Sabine Women
1962
4.9Superhero wrestler Neutron battles a gang of robotic assassins who use their hands and feet as deadly weapons.
Neutron Battles the Karate Assassins
1965
5.2Neutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium.
Neutron vs. the Maniac
1965
5.5Santo fights a group of phony spiritualists who are trying to scam his god-daughter out of her 6 million peso inheritance.
Santo vs. The Ring Villains
1968
6.8Sonia meets Roberto, a miserable actor with a few days left of life. Both fall in love, but soon after a policeman comes looking after Sonia, but is distracted by a countess during New Years Eve. Sonia and Roberto take this chance to escape.
El crepúsculo de un dios
1969
5.7"The fastest gun of all" visits his home-town for a few days. All he really wants is to see his wife and som, talk with them about starting over someplace far away... but life interferes with his plans. Remake of The Gunfighter (1950).
Pistoleros de la frontera
1967
NRThe son of a prostitute, longshoreman, fighter and bully.
Rata de puerto
1963
4.7Criminals hiding out on an island find a shipwrecked stranger.
Esclava del deseo
1968
1950s · 25 titles
7.4Cantinflas 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
8.3Cantinflas, 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
8.1Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
La Vida No Vale Nada
1955
5.4Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate.
¡Paso a la juventud..!
1958
6.0A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!
Una gringuita en México
1951
5.5Alma 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
5.7Two 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
6.4A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
The Man Without a Face
1950
6.5The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
Pepe El Toro
1953
6.8One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family.
When the Fog Lifts
1952
6.7The 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
6.2Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.
Las locuras de Tin Tan
1952
6.4To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.
Me traes de un ala
1953
5.5Catita 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
6.0Target of ridicule from fellow military academy, the cowardly Augustin did not want to return to their village for fear of confronting his grandfather, a revolutionary colonel. In love with the movie star Laura, Agustin flee to the capital but encounters the dangerous Humberto, another in love with the actress. Thanks to his "nine lives", he attains overcome perilous adventures and, incidentally, overcome their fears.
El gato sin botas
1957
6.7Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder.
The Medallion of Crime
1955
7.3Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.
Los tres mosqueteros y medio
1957
5.9A 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
6.9Jack-of-all-trades interferes in his neighbors' lives, then has to set everything straight.
El sultán descalzo
1956
6.3Engineering crew excavating a tunnel through a mountain, are trapped by a landslide.
El túnel 6
1955
5.7When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico City, they separate from their boyfriends, form a trio and travel the country singing, dancing and bribing older men, but they fall into a trap when they invest their money in an unreliable business.
Las tres alegres comadres
1952
7.5Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
The Troublemaker
1951
5.2"Brilliant" young painter watches his wife lapse into schizophrenia.
Una mujer sin destino
1950
5.5Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.
Música, mujeres y amor
1952
6.5Mexican feature film
La sexta carrera
1953
1940s · 3 titles
6.1A 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
6.3A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes things worse.
¡No me defiendas, compadre!
1949
7.8The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son Silvano, a young kid man that is incapable of passing judgment on his own father.
The Black Sheep
1949



