Wolf Ruvinskis
Birthday: 1921-10-30
Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia
Biography: Of Jewish origins, Wolf Ruvinskis Manevics was born in 1921 in Riga (Latvia), but fearing persecution during World War II his family relocated to Argentina, where they lived in extreme poverty. In spite of his deprived childhood, Wolf excelled in sports and became interested in wrestling. When he was 19 years old he started his professional career and toured South America, the United States and Mexico, where he decided to stay. Although he stayed on the ring until the 1960s - in matches with top Mexican wrestlers, as El Santo, Black Shadow, El Médico Asesino and Lobo Negro - Wolf was also a tango singer and a magician, and in 1949 he was called to act on the stage and in films. One of his biggest successes was _Bestia magnífica, La (1953)_, the first in a series of movies centered on Neutron, a character he created. His popularity was firmly established with his role as the handsome rural boy who becomes the victim of a mad scientist in the cult film The Body Snatcher (1957), he was a regular performer in all kinds of movies until the 1990's and was nominated for an Ariel as Best Supporting Actor for _Juego limpio (1996/II)_. He was also a businessman, and married three times: to Beatriz Perez, to dancer Armida Herrera, and to actress Lilia Micheluntil his death in 1999.
Movies
Neutron and the Black Mask
Dr. Charon and his group of mad scientists built a neutron bomb with trying to blackmail the free wo...
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Santo vs. the Martian Invasion
In this Mexican sci-fi fantasy, big beefy Martians invade the earth. Ostensibly, they have come to w...
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Neutron Battles the Karate Assassins
Superhero wrestler Neutron battles a gang of robotic assassins who use their hands and feet as deadl...
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Bonampak
The film narrates the discovery of the last great Mayan city, which occurred during the spring of 19...
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Neutron the Atomic Superman vs. the Death Robots
The evil scientist Dr. Caronte plots to revive the brains of three dead scientists and use them to o...
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La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano
Lucha libre is part of Mexican culture, but how did something that was shown in circuses and fairs b...
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La vida no vale nada
Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches o...
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The Body Snatcher
A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murd...
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El luchador fenómeno
Amado is an employee of a brewery that dreams of success in football. Inveterate dreamer sends a let...
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Knock Out
Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing hi...
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Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte
Neutron, a superhero/wrestler, goes up against a mad scientist and his army of monsters....
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The Magnificent Beast
The Magnificent Beast (Free Fight) is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by Chano Urueta. The firs...
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The Hawks
The story of two half brothers who do not know they are such, who fight over a woman and nearly kill...
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Música, mujeres y amor
Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen....
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Acapulco 12-22
Tourist industry dudes moonlight as karate detectives, solving crimes committed among the mod young ...
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El diablo desaparece
Cowboy justice: drifter takes on unscrupulous rancher and his sociopathic son....
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Chido Guan, el tacos de oro
Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good....
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El mexicano
After USA's appropriation of Texas, a Mexican resident responds to prejudice and injustice by formin...
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Living in Wrestling: History of Wrestling in Mexico
A comprehensive history of Wrestling in Mexico. Starring some of the most famous Mexican wrestlers o...
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The Sleeping Beauty
A Mexican comedy loosely playing off of the tale of Sleeping Beauty. A caveman wakes up after a thou...
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El justiciero vengador
White-hat with two sidekicks masquerades as a priest to break the stranglehold a blackhat has on a s...
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El gato sin botas
Target of ridicule from fellow military academy, the cowardly Augustin did not want to return to the...
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¡Paso a la juventud..!
Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate...
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El túnel 6
Engineering crew excavating a tunnel through a mountain, are trapped by a landslide....
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El sultán descalzo
Jack-of-all-trades interferes in his neighbors' lives, then has to set everything straight....
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Hell Road
When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild...
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Una mujer sin destino
"Brilliant" young painter watches his wife lapse into schizophrenia....
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Mi compadre Capulina
Baseball sketch, restaurant sketch, store-detective sketch, lucha libre sketch. Remake of No me defi...
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Una piedra en el zapato
Police procedural: some detail pertaining to a murder case is nagging at the back of a detective's m...
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Asesinos, S.A.
Incompetent clown is drafted into a Murder Incorporated style squad of hitmen....
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Vivo o muerto
Cowboy/western: hero fakes cowardice to trap the bad guys into showing their hands....
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The Shame of the Sabine Women
The Sabine tribe battles Romulus in the early days of Rome after Romans seize their women as unwilli...
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Descent of the Country of Night
A young woman of wealthy class rejects the world that surrounds her and dies, but in her wake a sham...
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Jinetes de la llanura
Cowboy-hero series, first of two. Sequel: Pistoleros de la frontera....
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The Troublemaker
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and som...
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La estrella vacía
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama....
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Island of Lost Souls
Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the a...
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Días de combate
A novice private detective is on the trail of a serial strangler in Mexico City....
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Santo the Silver Mask vs. The Ring Villains
Santo fights a group of phony spiritualists who are trying to scam his god-daughter out of her 6 mil...
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¡No me defiendas, compadre!
A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes t...
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El señor fotógrafo
Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers...
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Sangre en el ring
Boxing melodrama; heroic middleweight vs. crooked promoters. Sequel to Dinamita Kid....
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El señor doctor
It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he ru...
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Wild Love
Alma leaves Panama to go live with her aunt Antonia and with Manuel, her husband. There she meets Ju...
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Tailored gentleman
Cantinflas works as a model of tuxedos in a prestigious store, your job is to use the smoking in the...
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Los tres mosqueteros y medio
Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely....
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Neutron vs. the Maniac
Neutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium....
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By Fire And Sword
Offbeat Mexican police officer must transport 3 convicts to a trial before a local drug kingpin kill...
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El patrullero 777
Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way...
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The Man Without a Face
A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past....
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Mujeres de medianoche
Crime melodrama involving blackmail, murder, mystery and the obligatory police investigation....
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El hombre del puente
A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries....
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The Black Sheep
The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with ...
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Pistoleros de la frontera
"The fastest gun of all" visits his home-town for a few days. All he really wants is to see his wife...
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Pepe El Toro
The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of ...
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Mi campeón
Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to he...
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Me traes de un ala
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along wit...
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El vagabundo
Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus....
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The Medallion of Crime
Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's m...
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La mujer de los dos
The boys in a famous pop-band all have girl troubles. And other problems. Sucks being them....
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Streetwalker
In Mexico City, two sisters live radically different lives: Maria, who—along with her supportive gro...
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Los tigres del ring
Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches i...
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A garrote limpio
A series of murders have occurred in the uppermost circles of society. Detective Felipe Fierro vows ...
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¿Por qué ya no me quieres?
Tired of struggling, Lilia, played by Sara Montiel, moves to the city to live with her aunt, a forme...
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La puerta falsa
Young heroin addict dies in the pursuit of his calling, and his brother goes on a vendetta against t...
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Los Verduleros
The adventures of two friends, one a chicken vendor in a market and the other a policeman. They have...
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Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is ...
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Bajo un mismo rostro
Two twin sisters have completely different ways of loving: to one love is profound, to the other is ...
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Rosa de dos aromas
Two women meet by accident and discover that they both have 10 year+ relationships with the same man...
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Demonios sobre ruedas
"Demons on Wheels". A gang of bikers terrorize a town and its inhabitants who can not do anything to...
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El gavilan vengador
Masked rider exposes the criminal misdeeds of a wealthy land-owner and his henchmen....
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Una gringuita en México
A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she'...
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Furias desatadas
College student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father. Third of...
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Los matones del norte
Young man grows up thinking that his father's murderer is dead but wanting revenge against the guys ...
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Night Falls
Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the ob...
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The Realm of Fortune
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything th...
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Reportaje
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve....
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La gitana blanca
A gypsy girl, promised to the future leader of her tribe, falls in love with a depressed violinist....
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Extraños caminos
During the rainy Christmas season, a troupe of five actors who are college students lose their way i...
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Hipócrita..!
A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then h...
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Mujeres sin mañana
Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub....
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The Devil in the Blood
Three episodes about the influence of Satan: a black boxer commits killings under the influence of h...
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Bambucos y Corazones
In a charming and gossipy town in La Sábana that they call Alpargatoca, the old aunts are surprised ...
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Las tres alegres comadres
When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico Cit...
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When the Fog Lifts
One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a lo...
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