Prolific Mexican actor with more than 100 films in his filmography.
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 (Movies)
Ziuta Travesías
Character:Max Kerlow
Release Date:05/07/2024
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Character:Self
Release Date:03/11/2017
Nora's Will
Character:Rabbi Jacowitz
Release Date:06/10/2008
Love, Pain and Vice Versa
Character:Paciente anciano
Release Date:10/02/2008
El Viaje de la Nonna
Character:Public Notary
Release Date:07/02/2008
My Mexican Shivah
Character:Rubinstein
Release Date:26/10/2007
Sea of Dreams
Character:Glass blower
Release Date:09/11/2006
A Wonderful World
Character:Sacerdote
Release Date:17/03/2006
La última noche
Character:Don Cecilio
Release Date:25/02/2005
Espíritu deportivo
Character:Corsario Moreno
Release Date:01/10/2004
Remembrance
Character:
Release Date:19/07/2003
Lucía, Lucía
Character:Old Wehner
Release Date:17/01/2003
I Murder Seriously
Character:Don Eulalio
Release Date:11/10/2002
Moctezuma's Revenge
Character:Sr. Malverde
Release Date:01/01/2002
Compassionate Sex
Character:Vendedor de colmado
Release Date:30/06/2000
Luces de la noche
Character:Engineer Klein
Release Date:29/05/1998
If I Never See You Again
Character:Gonzalo
Release Date:18/11/1997
Esmeralda Comes by Night
Character:Priest in hospital
Release Date:05/09/1997
Sex Education In Brief Lessons
Character:
Release Date:25/07/1997
Viva San Isidro!
Character:Don Cayetano
Release Date:13/04/1995
Bodas Negras
Character:
Release Date:31/12/1994
El tesoro de Clotilde
Character:Justo
Release Date:03/11/1994
The Queen of the Night
Character:Serge
Release Date:07/09/1994
Perfume, efecto inmediato
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1994
Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
Character:Italian Superior Priest
Release Date:07/05/1993
Cómodas mensualidades
Character:
Release Date:24/01/1992
Juegos nocturnos
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1992
Cabeza de Vaca
Character:Man in armor
Release Date:11/10/1991
Bandidos
Character:Sacerdote
Release Date:09/08/1991
Dentro de la noche
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1991
Las buenas costumbres
Character:Félix Morin
Release Date:01/01/1990
El cielo subterraneo
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1988
Macho y hembras
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1987
Pasa en las mejores familias
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1987
What Do You Think?
Character:
Release Date:01/08/1986
Frida Still Life
Character:Leon Trotsky
Release Date:13/03/1986
The Humiliated
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1986
Va de Nuez
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1986
Murieron a la mitad del rio
Character:Mr. Walker
Release Date:01/01/1986
Cuentos de Principes y Princesas
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1981
Maria of My Heart
Character:Esposo de madrina
Release Date:17/05/1979
En defensa propia
Character:
Release Date:15/11/1978
Naufragio
Character:Marino III
Release Date:02/11/1978
The Bees
Character:Representative at the United Nations - U.S.S.R.
Release Date:01/11/1978
Three Stories of Love
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1978
The Diabolical
Character:Dueño de la tienda
Release Date:24/11/1977
La casta divina
Character:Arzobispo de Yucatán
Release Date:17/11/1977
Brothers of the Wind
Character:Amberson
Release Date:24/08/1977
El viaje
Character:
Release Date:28/06/1977
The Aztec Karate Fighter
Character:Fritz Kartoffel
Release Date:24/11/1976
Las Poquianchis
Character:Reportero (uncredited)
Release Date:17/11/1976
The Heist
Character:Preso del suéter amarillo
Release Date:05/08/1976
Foxtrot
Character:Captain
Release Date:01/03/1976
Celestina
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1976
El perro y la calentura
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1976
Letters from Marusia
Character:Engineer
Release Date:26/12/1975
The Coming of the King Olmos
Character:
Release Date:11/09/1975
Those Years
Character:Von Thun
Release Date:21/03/1974
The Prophet Mimi
Character:Don Paco
Release Date:27/12/1973
I Escaped from Devil's Island
Character:Pelliserre
Release Date:01/09/1973
The Mansion of Madness
Character:Dr. Maillard
Release Date:10/08/1973
Aunt Isabel's Garden
Character:
Release Date:05/04/1972
Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Character:Antonio Swafeyta
Release Date:05/01/1972
Pubertinaje
Character:
Release Date:09/02/1971
The Apple of Discord
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1968
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