Wolf Ruvinskis

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Oct 30, 1921 (103 years old)
Death date
Nov 09, 1999

Wolf Ruvinskis

Known For

Living in Wrestling: History of Wrestling in Mexico
0h 43m
Movie 1998

Living in Wrestling: History of Wrestling in Mexico

A comprehensive history of Wrestling in Mexico. Starring some of the most famous Mexican wrestlers of our times.

La mujer de los dos
1h 30m
Movie 1996

La mujer de los dos

The boys in a famous pop-band all have girl troubles. And other problems. Sucks being them.

Días de combate
1h 35m
Movie 1994

Días de combate

A novice private detective is on the trail of a serial strangler in Mexico City.

Wall of Darkness
Movie 1994

Wall of Darkness

Extraños caminos
1h 33m
Movie 1993

Extraños caminos

During the rainy Christmas season, a troupe of five actors who are college students lose their way in the mountains of Hidalgo when they try to take a short cut. With their van in need of repairs, they are stranded in a village where a local boss, Don Elias, pays peasants to log the forest illegally. The five collegians have little sensitivity to village ways and are shocked to be treated as foreigners in their own country. When two of them witness assaults on the town's priest and on a harmless simpleton, and when Don Elias frames the troupe for murder, their cries of innocence fall on deaf ears. Vigilantes call for their deaths and give chase. Will anyone help them?

Mi compadre Capulina
1h 25m
Movie 1989

Mi compadre Capulina

Baseball sketch, restaurant sketch, store-detective sketch, lucha libre sketch. Remake of No me defiendes, compadre.

Bonampak
1h 35m
Movie 1989

Bonampak

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.

Rosa de dos aromas
1h 30m
Movie 1989

Rosa de dos aromas

Two women meet by accident and discover that they both have 10 year+ relationships with the same man. Also, unrelated subplots involving other women.

By Fire And Sword
1h 18m
Movie 1988

By Fire And Sword

Offbeat Mexican police officer must transport 3 convicts to a trial before a local drug kingpin kills them.

Biography

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 biggest successes was _Bestia magnífica, La (1953)_, the first in a series of movies centered on Neutron, a character he created. His popularity was firmly established with his role as the handsome rural boy who becomes the victim of a mad scientist in the cult film The Body Snatcher (1957), he was a regular performer in all kinds of movies until the 1990's and was nominated for an Ariel as Best Supporting Actor for _Juego limpio (1996/II)_. He was also a businessman, and married three times: to Beatriz Perez, to dancer Armida Herrera, and to actress Lilia Micheluntil his death in 1999.

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