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Max Kerlow
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Max Kerlow
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1928-03-03,Mexico City, Mexico
Gender
Male
Biography
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.

Filmography

Espíritu deportivo

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Espíritu deportivo
2004-10-01

Juegos nocturnos

0

Juegos nocturnos
1992-01-01

5.2

The Humiliated
1986-01-01

5

Celestina
1976-01-01

A Wonderful World

7.6

A Wonderful World
2006-03-17

The Mansion of Madness

4.625

The Mansion of Madness
1973-08-10

Macho y hembras

5

Macho y hembras
1987-01-01

Las buenas costumbres

5

Las buenas costumbres
1990-01-01

Aunt Isabel's Garden

5.6

Aunt Isabel's Garden
1972-04-05

Reed: Insurgent Mexico

5.8

Reed: Insurgent Mexico
1973-01-05

I Escaped from Devil's Island

4.7

I Escaped from Devil's Island
1973-09-01

El perro y la calentura

5

El perro y la calentura
1976-01-01

Las Poquianchis

6.9

Las Poquianchis
1976-11-17

The Aztec Karate Fighter

5.8

The Aztec Karate Fighter
1976-11-24

6

El viaje
1977-06-28

Brothers of the Wind

5.3

Brothers of the Wind
1977-08-24

4.2

The Diabolical
1977-11-24

En defensa propia

5.9

En defensa propia
1978-11-15

4.7

The Bees
1978-11-01

Cuentos de Principes y Princesas

5

Cuentos de Principes y Princesas
1981-01-01

What Do You Think?

4.7

What Do You Think?
1986-08-01

5

Va de Nuez
1986-01-01

Murieron a la mitad del rio

5

Murieron a la mitad del rio
1986-01-01

Pasa en las mejores familias

5

Pasa en las mejores familias
1987-01-01

El cielo subterraneo

5

El cielo subterraneo
1988-01-01

6.8

Cabeza de Vaca
1991-10-11

6

Bandidos
1991-08-09

Dentro de la noche

5

Dentro de la noche
1991-01-01

Cómodas mensualidades

4

Cómodas mensualidades
1992-01-24

The Queen of the Night

4.5

The Queen of the Night
1994-09-07

El tesoro de Clotilde

4.7

El tesoro de Clotilde
1994-11-03

Perfume, efecto inmediato

5

Perfume, efecto inmediato
1994-01-01

Viva San Isidro!

5.5

Viva San Isidro!
1995-04-13

Luces de la noche

5

Luces de la noche
1998-05-29

Moctezuma's Revenge

5

Moctezuma's Revenge
2002-01-01

5.1

Lucía, Lucía
2003-01-17

La última noche

6.494

La última noche
2005-02-25

4.8

Sea of Dreams
2006-11-09

El Viaje de la Nonna

5.8

El Viaje de la Nonna
2008-02-07

My Mexican Shivah

6

My Mexican Shivah
2007-10-26

6.6

Nora's Will
2008-10-06

0

Bodas Negras
1994-12-31

Three Stories of Love

0

Three Stories of Love
1978-01-01

If I Never See You Again

7

If I Never See You Again
1997-11-18

Compassionate Sex

5.7

Compassionate Sex
2000-06-30

Frida Still Life

5.2

Frida Still Life
1986-03-13

6.6

The Heist
1976-08-05

10

Remembrance
2003-07-19

Ziuta Travesías

0

Ziuta Travesías
2024-07-05

La casta divina

6.6

La casta divina
1977-11-17

The Prophet Mimi

6.3

The Prophet Mimi
1973-12-27

5

Pubertinaje
1978-02-09

Sex Education In Brief Lessons

4.1

Sex Education In Brief Lessons
1997-07-25

I Murder Seriously

6

I Murder Seriously
2002-10-11

5.2

Naufragio
1978-11-02

Maria of My Heart

6.1

Maria of My Heart
1979-05-17

Esmeralda Comes by Night

5.2

Esmeralda Comes by Night
1997-09-05

4.7

Foxtrot
1976-03-01

The Apple of Discord

5

The Apple of Discord
1968-01-01

The Coming of the King Olmos

6

The Coming of the King Olmos
1975-09-11

5.5

Those Years
1974-03-21

Letters from Marusia

5.3

Letters from Marusia
1975-12-26

Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest

3

Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
1993-05-07

One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo

0

One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017-11-03