Wolf Ruvinskis

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

Mañana es primavera poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mañana es primavera

1982

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

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

Tailored gentleman poster
7.4

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

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

La Vida No Vale Nada poster
8.1

Pablo, 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

1980s · 8 titles

Los Verduleros poster
7.3

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

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

Los Matones Del Norte poster
6.3

Young 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

El Secuestro De Lola - Lola La Trailera 2 poster
5.9

No synopsis available yet.

El Secuestro De Lola - Lola La Trailera 2

1986

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

Knock Out poster
6.8

Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.

Knock Out

1984

A garrote limpio poster
5.7

A 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

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

1970s · 6 titles

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

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

Island of Lost Souls poster
6.1

Rene 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

Descenso del País de la Noche poster
7.0

A 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

The Mexican poster
6.7

On 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

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

1960s · 16 titles

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

Neutron the Atomic Superman vs. the Death Robots poster
5.7

The 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

Neutron and the Black Mask poster
5.3

Neutron, a masked wrestler/superhero, battles a gang of crooks who are plotting to steal a secret formula.

Neutron and the Black Mask

1962

Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte poster
5.1

Neutron, a superhero/wrestler, goes up against a mad scientist and his army of monsters.

Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte

1963

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

Los tigres del ring poster
5.5

Crooked 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

El proceso de Cristo poster
6.4

The story of The Last Hours of Jesus Christ.

El proceso de Cristo

1966

Santo vs. the Martian Invasion poster
5.7

In 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

The Shame of the Sabine Women poster
5.1

The 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

Neutron Battles the Karate Assassins poster
4.9

Superhero wrestler Neutron battles a gang of robotic assassins who use their hands and feet as deadly weapons.

Neutron Battles the Karate Assassins

1965

Neutron vs. the Maniac poster
5.2

Neutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium.

Neutron vs. the Maniac

1965

Santo vs. The Ring Villains poster
5.5

Santo 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

El crepúsculo de un dios poster
6.8

Sonia 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

Pistoleros de la frontera poster
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

Rata de puerto poster
NR

The son of a prostitute, longshoreman, fighter and bully.

Rata de puerto

1963

Esclava del deseo poster
4.7

Criminals hiding out on an island find a shipwrecked stranger.

Esclava del deseo

1968

1950s · 25 titles

Tailored gentleman poster
7.4

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

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

La Vida No Vale Nada poster
8.1

Pablo, 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

¡Paso a la juventud..! poster
5.4

Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate.

¡Paso a la juventud..!

1958

Una gringuita en México poster
6.0

A 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

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

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

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

Pepe El Toro poster
6.5

The 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

When the Fog Lifts poster
6.8

One 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

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

Las locuras de Tin Tan poster
6.2

Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.

Las locuras de Tin Tan

1952

Me traes de un ala poster
6.4

To 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

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

El gato sin botas poster
6.0

Target 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

The Medallion of Crime poster
6.7

Going 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

Los tres mosqueteros y medio poster
7.3

Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.

Los tres mosqueteros y medio

1957

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 sultán descalzo poster
6.9

Jack-of-all-trades interferes in his neighbors' lives, then has to set everything straight.

El sultán descalzo

1956

El túnel 6 poster
6.3

Engineering crew excavating a tunnel through a mountain, are trapped by a landslide.

El túnel 6

1955

Las tres alegres comadres poster
5.7

When 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

The Troublemaker poster
7.5

Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.

The Troublemaker

1951

Una mujer sin destino poster
5.2

"Brilliant" young painter watches his wife lapse into schizophrenia.

Una mujer sin destino

1950

Música, mujeres y amor poster
5.5

Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.

Música, mujeres y amor

1952

La sexta carrera poster
6.5

Mexican feature film

La sexta carrera

1953

Series credits

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