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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.
Most Popular Max Kerlow Trailers
Total trailers found: 65
11 October 2002
A cop sets out to find a man who has been delivering too much of a good thing in this offbeat comedy.
25 July 1997
Alejandra and Ana are college friends, both are virgin and hope to find the love of their life soon.
24 January 1992
Young married guy is overwhelmed by the expenses involved with starting a family.
31 December 1994
Short produced by TV Azteca, starring José Alonso, Leonor Bonilla and Sergio Bonilla
18 November 1997
Five elderly men form a music group and run away from the nursing home where they are interns with the hope of playing for an audience.
01 January 1987
Mexican feature film
05 July 2024
Ziuta, Polish, Jewish and survivor of the Second World War, was an extraordinary woman who aroused special devotion.
07 February 2008
A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip to a small town in Italy .
01 January 1986
Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.
05 August 1976
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers.
24 November 1976
Potter who makes fake pre-Colombian statues gets mixed up with thieves and treasure-hunters at an Aztec art museum.
19 July 2003
The documentary film Remembrance is an outline of the past century taking as a motif the life of Luis Frank, a Lithuanian emigrant.
06 October 2008
Jose learns that Nora, the woman he was married to for 30 years and from whom divorced, has committed suicide.
01 January 1988
Mexican feature film
02 November 1978
One woman lives waiting for her son who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot.
03 November 2017
This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work.
17 January 2003
Lucia, an children's book author, tells the story of her husband's disappearance. One day on their way to Brazil he just disappears.
21 March 1974
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from Fo
26 December 1975
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights.
17 May 1979
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses.
01 March 1976
A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.
13 March 1986
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time.
01 January 1976
Mexican feature film
29 May 1998
On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.
01 January 1978
Three people live in the same building: An anxious teenager, a girl who wants to be kidnapped by a prince, and a maid who wants to explore eroticism.
03 November 1994
Clotilde dies, and her god-daughter has promised to carry out a final wish for her. Two gangs of thieves and the cops interfere with her fulfilling the promise.
01 January 1990
Mexican feature film
25 February 2005
This film is different from the previous ones; its themes are more mature, and the characters and situations are different.
01 January 2002
Mexican feature film
01 September 1973
In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
05 April 1972
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
07 May 1993
Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.
01 January 1987
Mexican feature film
09 November 2006
On an island across the sea lies a village full of romance, wonder and mystery; a timeless place where people carry strong beliefs that can fulfill the heart's deepest desires.
06 September 1968
A man convinces two friends to rob and kill a landowner.
17 November 1976
Three sisters run brothels protected by the authorities, abuse and prostitute young women under the false pretense of employing them as servants.
17 March 2006
A fairy tale about the political and socioeconomic realities of Mexico.
11 October 1991
In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades.
30 June 2000
Dolores is a mature and kind woman whose husband abandons her because he can't stand her uncanny generosity.
01 November 1978
Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere.
17 November 1977
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ".
10 August 1973
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.
11 September 1975
After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods.
07 September 1994
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography").
01 January 1994
A cosmetologist invents a perfume that helps her sister seduce her boss. When her boss realizes the power of the perfume he will try to steal the formula.
05 January 1972
A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
10 February 2008
Chelo is an architect, withdrawing from her social life because of realistic dreams she's having of a romance with a strange man.
09 August 1991
In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, a band of pre-teen boys are forced to rely on their own resources for survival.
10 February 1978
Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else.
27 December 1973
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes a little boy to grow up into a murderer.
01 August 1986
A gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression, unhealthy conditions and violence in the marginal communities of Mexico's capital city.
15 July 1976
An adaptation of the tragicomedy "Calisto y Melibea", attributed to Fernando de Rojas.
24 November 1977
Dave Boland (Carlos East) wears a strange medallion and robs the bank. He also takes the banker's daughter with him.
