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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1928-03-03
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
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Movies List of Max Kerlow

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Espíritu deportivo

2004 Movie
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Juegos nocturnos

1992 Movie
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The Humiliated

1986 Movie
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Celestina

1976 Movie
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A Wonderful World

2006 Movie
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Macho y hembras

1987 Movie
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Las buenas costumbres

1990 Movie
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Aunt Isabel's Garden

1972 Movie
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Las Poquianchis

1976 Movie
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El viaje

1977 Movie
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Brothers of the Wind

1977 Movie
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The Diabolical

1977 Movie
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En defensa propia

1978 Movie
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The Bees

1978 Movie
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What Do You Think?

1986 Movie
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Va de Nuez

1986 Movie
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El cielo subterraneo

1988 Movie
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Cabeza de Vaca

1991 Movie
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Bandidos

1991 Movie
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Dentro de la noche

1991 Movie
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El tesoro de Clotilde

1994 Movie
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Viva San Isidro!

1995 Movie
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Luces de la noche

1998 Movie
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Moctezuma's Revenge

2002 Movie
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Lucía, Lucía

2003 Movie
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La última noche

2005 Movie
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Sea of Dreams

2006 Movie
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El Viaje de la Nonna

2008 Movie
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My Mexican Shivah

2007 Movie
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Nora's Will

2008 Movie
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Bodas Negras

1994 Movie
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Three Stories of Love

1978 Movie
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Compassionate Sex

2000 Movie
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Frida Still Life

1986 Movie
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The Heist

1976 Movie
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Remembrance

2003 Movie
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Ziuta Travesías

2024 Movie
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La casta divina

1977 Movie
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The Prophet Mimi

1973 Movie
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Pubertinaje

1978 Movie
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I Murder Seriously

2002 Movie
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Naufragio

1978 Movie
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Maria of My Heart

1979 Movie
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Foxtrot

1976 Movie
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The Apple of Discord

1968 Movie
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Those Years

1974 Movie
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Letters from Marusia

1975 Movie