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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 3, 1928
Died
July 6, 2016
Place of Birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Max Kerlow
0.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Max Kerlow
Ziuta Travesías
2024
0.0
Self
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017
6.9
Rabbi Jacowitz
Nora's Will
2008
5.1
Paciente anciano
Love, Pain and Vice Versa
2008
5.8
Public Notary
El Viaje de la Nonna
2008
6.0
Rubinstein
My Mexican Shivah
2007
4.8
Glass blower
Sea of Dreams
2006
7.6
Sacerdote
A Wonderful World
2006
6.6
Don Cecilio
La última noche
2005
0.0
Corsario Moreno
Espíritu deportivo
2004
Credits
Ziuta Travesías
as Max Kerlow
2024
0.0
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
as Self
2017
0.0
Nora's Will
as Rabbi Jacowitz
2008
6.9
Love, Pain and Vice Versa
as Paciente anciano
2008
5.1
El Viaje de la Nonna
as Public Notary
2008
5.8
My Mexican Shivah
as Rubinstein
2007
6.0
Sea of Dreams
as Glass blower
2006
4.8
A Wonderful World
as Sacerdote
2006
7.6
La última noche
as Don Cecilio
2005
6.6
Espíritu deportivo
as Corsario Moreno
2004
0.0
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Remembrance
2003
10.0
Lucía, Lucía
as Old Wehner
2003
5.1
I Murder Seriously
as Don Eulalio
2002
5.7
Moctezuma's Revenge
as Sr. Malverde
2002
5.0
Compassionate Sex
as Vendedor de colmado
2000
5.7
Luces de la noche
as Engineer Klein
1998
5.0
If I Never See You Again
as Gonzalo
1997
7.0
Esmeralda Comes by Night
as Priest in hospital
1997
5.2
Sex Education In Brief Lessons
1997
4.1
Viva San Isidro!
as Don Cayetano
1995
5.8
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Bodas Negras
1994
0.0
El tesoro de Clotilde
as Justo
1994
4.7
The Queen of the Night
as Serge
1994
4.5
Perfume, efecto inmediato
1994
5.0
Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
as Italian Superior Priest
1993
3.0
Cómodas mensualidades
1992
4.0
Juegos nocturnos
1992
0.0
Cabeza de Vaca
as Man in armor
1991
6.9
Bandidos
as Sacerdote
1991
6.0
Dentro de la noche
1991
5.0
Las buenas costumbres
as Félix Morin
1990
5.0
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El cielo subterraneo
1988
5.0
Pasa en las mejores familias
1987
5.0
Macho y hembras
1987
5.0
What Do You Think?
1986
4.7
Frida Still Life
as Leon Trotsky
1986
5.2
The Humiliated
1986
5.2
🎬
Murieron a la mitad del rio
as Mr. Walker
1986
5.0
🎬
Va de Nuez
1986
5.0
Cuentos de Principes y Princesas
1981
5.0
Maria of My Heart
as Esposo de madrina
1979
6.1
En defensa propia
1978
5.9
Naufragio
as Marino III
1978
5.2
The Bees
as Representative at the United Nations - U.S.S.R.
1978
4.5
Pubertinaje
1978
5.0
Three Stories of Love
1978
0.0
The Diabolical
as Dueño de la tienda
1977
4.2
La casta divina
as Arzobispo de Yucatán
1977
6.6
Brothers of the Wind
as Amberson
1977
5.3
El viaje
1977
6.0
The Aztec Karate Fighter
as Fritz Kartoffel
1976
5.8
Las Poquianchis
as Reportero (uncredited)
1976
6.9
The Heist
as Preso del suéter amarillo
1976
6.6
Foxtrot
as Captain
1976
4.7
🎬
Celestina
1976
5.0
El perro y la calentura
1976
5.0
Letters from Marusia
as Engineer
1975
5.3
The Coming of the King Olmos
1975
6.0
Those Years
as Von Thun
1974
5.5
The Prophet Mimi
as Don Paco
1973
6.3
I Escaped from Devil's Island
as Pelliserre
1973
4.7
The Mansion of Madness
as Dr. Maillard
1973
4.5
Reed: Insurgent Mexico
as Antonio Swafeyta
1973
5.8
Aunt Isabel's Garden
1972
5.6
The Apple of Discord
1968
5.0