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Max Kerlow‌

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Birthday

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Max Kerlow

Mexico City, Mexico

Max Kerlow

Mexico City, Mexico

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1928-03-03

Popularity

star1.4

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.

Movie Credits

Espíritu deportivo

Espíritu deportivo‌
star0.0
calendar 2004

Juegos nocturnos

Juegos nocturnos‌
star0.0
calendar 1992

The Humiliated

The Humiliated‌
star5.2
calendar 1986

Celestina

Celestina‌
star5.0
calendar 1976

A Wonderful World

A Wonderful World‌
star7.6
calendar 2006

The Mansion of Madness

The Mansion of Madness‌
star4.6
calendar 1973

Macho y hembras

Macho y hembras‌
star5.0
calendar 1987

Las buenas costumbres

Las buenas costumbres‌
star5.0
calendar 1990

El perro y la calentura

El perro y la calentura‌
star5.0
calendar 1976

Reed: Insurgent Mexico

Reed: Insurgent Mexico‌
star5.8
calendar 1973

The Aztec Karate Fighter

The Aztec Karate Fighter‌
star5.8
calendar 1976

El viaje

El viaje‌
star6.0
calendar 1977

The Diabolical

The Diabolical‌
star4.2
calendar 1977

Aunt Isabel's Garden

Aunt Isabel's Garden‌
star5.6
calendar 1972

The Bees

The Bees‌
star4.7
calendar 1978

Brothers of the Wind

Brothers of the Wind‌
star5.3
calendar 1977

I Escaped from Devil's Island

I Escaped from Devil's Island‌
star4.7
calendar 1973

En defensa propia

En defensa propia‌
star5.9
calendar 1978

What Do You Think?

What Do You Think?‌
star4.7
calendar 1986

Las Poquianchis

Las Poquianchis‌
star6.9
calendar 1976

Va de Nuez

Va de Nuez‌
star5.0
calendar 1986

Cuentos de Principes y Princesas

Cuentos de Principes y Princesas‌
star5.0
calendar 1981

Cabeza de Vaca

Cabeza de Vaca‌
star6.8
calendar 1991

Murieron a la mitad del rio

Murieron a la mitad del rio‌
star5.0
calendar 1986

Bandidos

Bandidos‌
star6.0
calendar 1991

El cielo subterraneo

El cielo subterraneo‌
star5.0
calendar 1988

Pasa en las mejores familias

Pasa en las mejores familias‌
star5.0
calendar 1987

Dentro de la noche

Dentro de la noche‌
star5.0
calendar 1991

Cómodas mensualidades

Cómodas mensualidades‌
star4.0
calendar 1992

The Queen of the Night

The Queen of the Night‌
star4.5
calendar 1994

My Mexican Shivah

My Mexican Shivah‌
star6.0
calendar 2007

Luces de la noche

Luces de la noche‌
star5.0
calendar 1998

Moctezuma's Revenge

Moctezuma's Revenge‌
star5.0
calendar 2002

Perfume, efecto inmediato

Perfume, efecto inmediato‌
star5.0
calendar 1994

Lucía, Lucía

Lucía, Lucía‌
star5.1
calendar 2003

La última noche

La última noche‌
star6.5
calendar 2005

El tesoro de Clotilde

El tesoro de Clotilde‌
star4.7
calendar 1994

Sea of Dreams

Sea of Dreams‌
star4.8
calendar 2006

Nora's Will

Nora's Will‌
star6.6
calendar 2008

Viva San Isidro!

Viva San Isidro!‌
star5.5
calendar 1995

El Viaje de la Nonna

El Viaje de la Nonna‌
star5.8
calendar 2008

Bodas Negras

Bodas Negras‌
star0.0
calendar 1994

Three Stories of Love

Three Stories of Love‌
star0.0
calendar 1978

If I Never See You Again

If I Never See You Again‌
star7.0
calendar 1997

Compassionate Sex

Compassionate Sex‌
star5.7
calendar 2000

Frida Still Life

Frida Still Life‌
star5.2
calendar 1986

The Heist

The Heist‌
star6.6
calendar 1976

Remembrance

Remembrance‌
star10.0
calendar 2003

Ziuta Travesías

Ziuta Travesías‌
star0.0
calendar 2024

La casta divina

La casta divina‌
star6.6
calendar 1977

The Prophet Mimi

The Prophet Mimi‌
star6.3
calendar 1973

Pubertinaje

Pubertinaje‌
star5.0
calendar 1978

Sex Education In Brief Lessons

Sex Education In Brief Lessons‌
star4.1
calendar 1997

I Murder Seriously

I Murder Seriously‌
star6.0
calendar 2002

Maria of My Heart

Maria of My Heart‌
star6.1
calendar 1979

Naufragio

Naufragio‌
star5.2
calendar 1978

Esmeralda Comes by Night

Esmeralda Comes by Night‌
star5.2
calendar 1997

Foxtrot

Foxtrot‌
star4.7
calendar 1976

The Apple of Discord

The Apple of Discord‌
star5.0
calendar 1968

The Coming of the King Olmos

The Coming of the King Olmos‌
star6.0
calendar 1975

Those Years

Those Years‌
star5.5
calendar 1974

Letters from Marusia

Letters from Marusia‌
star5.3
calendar 1975

Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest

Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest‌
star3.0
calendar 1993

Cien años con Juan Rulfo

Cien años con Juan Rulfo‌
star0.0
calendar 2017

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