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person_profile-Max Kerlow

Max Kerlow Died at age: 88

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Max Kerlow

Date of Birth:

Mar 03, 1928

Country of birth:

Mexico

Died:

Jul 06, 2016

Biography of

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, 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.

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Filmography of

Max Kerlow

Found 50 Movies in total

Ziuta Travesías

Max Kerlow ( Actor )

... 2024

... 2017

Nora's Will

Rabbi Jacowitz ( Actor )

... 2008

Love, Pain and Vice Versa

Paciente anciano ( Actor )

... 2008

My Mexican Shivah

Rubinstein ( Actor )

... 2007

Sea of Dreams

Glass blower ( Actor )

... 2006

A Wonderful World

Sacerdote ( Actor )

... 2006

Lucía, Lucía

Old Wehner ( Actor )

... 2003

I Murder Seriously

Don Eulalio ( Actor )

... 2002

Compassionate Sex

Vendedor de colmado ( Actor )

... 2000

Luces de la noche

Engineer Klein ( Actor )

... 1998

If I Never See You Again

Gonzalo ( Actor )

... 1997

Esmeralda Comes by Night

Priest in hospital ( Actor )

... 1997

... 1997

Viva San Isidro!

Don Cayetano ( Actor )

... 1995

El tesoro de Clotilde

Justo ( Actor )

... 1994

The Queen of the Night

Serge ( Actor )

... 1994

... 1994

Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest

Italian Superior Priest ( Actor )

... 1993

... 1992

Cabeza de Vaca

Man in armor ( Actor )

... 1991

Bandidos

Sacerdote ( Actor )

... 1991

Las buenas costumbres

Félix Morin ( Actor )

... 1990

... 1987

... 1986

Frida Still Life

Leon Trotsky ( Actor )

... 1986

... 1986

... 1981

Maria of My Heart

Esposo de madrina ( Actor )

... 1979

... 1978

Naufragio

Marino III ( Actor )

... 1978

The Bees

Representative at the United Nations - U.S.S.R. ( Actor )

... 1978

... 1978

The Diabolical

Dueño de la tienda ( Actor )

... 1977

La casta divina

Arzobispo de Yucatán ( Actor )

... 1977

Brothers of the Wind

Amberson ( Actor )

... 1977

... 1977

The Aztec Karate Fighter

Fritz Kartoffel ( Actor )

... 1976

Las Poquianchis

Reportero (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1976

The Heist

Preso del suéter amarillo ( Actor )

... 1976

Foxtrot

Captain ( Actor )

... 1976

... 1976

Letters from Marusia

Engineer ( Actor )

... 1975

Those Years

Von Thun ( Actor )

... 1974

The Prophet Mimi

Don Paco ( Actor )

... 1973

I Escaped from Devil's Island

Pelliserre ( Actor )

... 1973

The Mansion of Madness

Dr. Maillard ( Actor )

... 1973

Reed: Insurgent Mexico

Antonio Swafeyta ( Actor )

... 1973

... 1972

... 1968