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Max Kerlow

Max Kerlow

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.

Personal information

Birthday

1928-03-03

Birth Place

Mexico City, Mexico

Movies and TV shows :

A Wonderful World

A Wonderful World

2006

7.6

Movie
Aunt Isabel's Garden

Aunt Isabel's Garden

1972

5.6

Movie
Bandidos

Bandidos

1991

6.0

Movie
Bodas Negras

Bodas Negras

1994

0.0

Movie
Brothers of the Wind

Brothers of the Wind

1977

5.3

Movie
Cabeza de Vaca

Cabeza de Vaca

1991

6.8

Movie
Celestina

Celestina

1976

5.0

Movie
Cómodas mensualidades

Cómodas mensualidades

1992

4.0

Movie
Compassionate Sex

Compassionate Sex

2000

5.7

Movie
Cuentos de Principes y Princesas

Cuentos de Principes y Princesas

1981

5.0

Movie
Dentro de la noche

Dentro de la noche

1991

5.0

Movie
El cielo subterraneo

El cielo subterraneo

1988

5.0

Movie
El perro y la calentura

El perro y la calentura

1976

5.0

Movie
El tesoro de Clotilde

El tesoro de Clotilde

1994

4.7

Movie
El viaje

El viaje

1977

6.0

Movie
El Viaje de la Nonna

El Viaje de la Nonna

2008

5.8

Movie
En defensa propia

En defensa propia

1978

5.9

Movie
Esmeralda Comes by Night

Esmeralda Comes by Night

1997

5.2

Movie
Espíritu deportivo

Espíritu deportivo

2004

0.0

Movie
Foxtrot

Foxtrot

1976

4.7

Movie
Frida Still Life

Frida Still Life

1986

5.2

Movie
I Escaped from Devil's Island

I Escaped from Devil's Island

1973

4.7

Movie
I Murder Seriously

I Murder Seriously

2002

6.0

Movie
If I Never See You Again

If I Never See You Again

1997

7.0

Movie
Juegos nocturnos

Juegos nocturnos

1992

0.0

Movie
Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest

Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest

1993

3.0

Movie
La casta divina

La casta divina

1977

6.6

Movie
La última noche

La última noche

2005

6.5

Movie
Las buenas costumbres

Las buenas costumbres

1990

5.0

Movie
Las Poquianchis

Las Poquianchis

1976

6.9

Movie
Letters from Marusia

Letters from Marusia

1975

5.3

Movie
Luces de la noche

Luces de la noche

1998

5.0

Movie
Lucía, Lucía

Lucía, Lucía

2003

5.1

Movie
Macho y hembras

Macho y hembras

1987

5.0

Movie
Maria of My Heart

Maria of My Heart

1979

6.1

Movie
Moctezuma's Revenge

Moctezuma's Revenge

2002

5.0

Movie
Murieron a la mitad del rio

Murieron a la mitad del rio

1986

5.0

Movie
My Mexican Shivah

My Mexican Shivah

2007

6.0

Movie
Naufragio

Naufragio

1978

5.2

Movie
Nora's Will

Nora's Will

2008

6.7

Movie
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo

One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo

2017

0.0

Movie
Pasa en las mejores familias

Pasa en las mejores familias

1987

5.0

Movie
Perfume, efecto inmediato

Perfume, efecto inmediato

1994

5.0

Movie
Pubertinaje

Pubertinaje

1978

5.0

Movie
Reed: Insurgent Mexico

Reed: Insurgent Mexico

1973

5.8

Movie
Remembrance

Remembrance

2003

10.0

Movie
Sea of Dreams

Sea of Dreams

2006

4.8

Movie
Sex Education In Brief Lessons

Sex Education In Brief Lessons

1997

4.1

Movie
The Apple of Discord

The Apple of Discord

1968

5.0

Movie
The Aztec Karate Fighter

The Aztec Karate Fighter

1976

5.8

Movie
The Bees

The Bees

1978

4.7

Movie
The Coming of the King Olmos

The Coming of the King Olmos

1975

6.0

Movie
The Diabolical

The Diabolical

1977

4.2

Movie
The Heist

The Heist

1976

6.6

Movie
The Humiliated

The Humiliated

1986

5.2

Movie
The Mansion of Madness

The Mansion of Madness

1973

4.6

Movie
The Prophet Mimi

The Prophet Mimi

1973

6.3

Movie
The Queen of the Night

The Queen of the Night

1994

4.5

Movie
Those Years

Those Years

1974

5.5

Movie
Three Stories of Love

Three Stories of Love

1978

0.0

Movie
Va de Nuez

Va de Nuez

1986

5.0

Movie
Viva San Isidro!

Viva San Isidro!

1995

5.5

Movie
What Do You Think?

What Do You Think?

1986

4.7

Movie
Ziuta Travesías

Ziuta Travesías

2024

0.0

Movie