A C T O R
Max Kerlow [975423]
Age: 88 years
Birthday: 1928-03-03
Deathday: 2016-07-06
Birthplace: Mexico City, Mexico
Credits: 59
Popularity: 0.2021
Links: Homepage, IMDB
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.

Ziuta Travesías
2024-07-05
Cien años con Jua…
2017-11-03
Cinco días sin Nora
2008-10-06
Violanchelo
2008-02-10
El Viaje de la Nonna
2008-02-07
Morirse está en h…
2007-10-26
Sea of Dreams
2006-11-09
Un mundo maravilloso
2006-03-17
La última noche
2005-02-25
Espíritu deportivo
2004-10-01
La hija del caníbal
2003-01-17
Asesino en serio
2002-10-11
Moctezuma's Revenge
2002-01-01
Sexo por compasión
2000-06-30
Luces de la noche
1998-05-29
Por si no te vuelv…
1997-11-18
De noche vienes, E…
1997-09-05
Educación sexual …
1997-07-25
Viva San Isidro!
1995-04-13
El tesoro de Clotilde
1994-11-03
La reina de la noche
1994-09-07
Perfume, efecto in…
1994-01-01
Kino
1993-05-07
Cómodas mensualid…
1992-01-24
Juegos nocturnos
1992-01-01
Cabeza de Vaca
1991-10-11
Bandidos
1991-08-09
Dentro de la noche
1991-01-01
Las buenas costumbres
1990-01-01
Macho y hembras
1987-01-01
Pasa en las mejore…
1987-01-01
¿Cómo Ves?
1986-08-01
Frida, naturaleza …
1986-03-13
Las inocentes
1986-01-01
Cuentos de Princip…
1981-01-01
María de mi Corazón
1979-05-17
En defensa propia
1978-11-15
Naufragio
1978-11-02
The Bees
1978-11-01
Pubertinaje
1978-02-09
Tres historias de …
1978-01-01
El diabólico
1977-11-24
La casta divina
1977-11-17
Los hermanos del v…
1977-08-24
El viaje
1977-06-28
El karateca azteca
1976-11-24
Las poquianchis
1976-11-17
El Apando
1976-08-05
Foxtrot
1976-03-01
El perro y la cale…
1976-01-01
Actas de Marusia
1975-12-26
La venida del rey …
1975-09-11
Aquellos años
1974-03-21
El Profeta Mimí
1973-12-27
I Escaped from Dev…
1973-09-01
La mansión de la …
1973-08-10
Reed, México Insu…
1973-01-05
El jardín de la t…
1972-04-05
La manzana de la d…
1968-01-01