
Max Kerlow
Known for ActingBorn 1928-03-03Died 2016-07-06Mexico City, Mexico
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.Read more
Movies & web series
Remembrance
★ 9.0View details →
Remembrance
2003 · Movie
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Juegos nocturnos
1992 · Movie
★ 8.0View details →
Three Stories of Love
1978 · Movie
★ 7.7View details →
A Wonderful World
2006 · Movie
★ 7.1View details →
Nora's Will
2008 · Movie
★ 7.0View details →
Espíritu deportivo
2004 · Movie
Bodas Negras
★ 7.0View details →
Bodas Negras
1994 · Movie
★ 6.8View details →
Cabeza de Vaca
1991 · Movie
★ 6.6View details →
La última noche
2005 · Movie
★ 6.6View details →
My Mexican Shivah
2007 · Movie
★ 6.8View details →
Las Poquianchis
1976 · Movie
★ 6.7View details →
Dentro de la noche
1991 · Movie
El cielo subterraneo
★ 6.7View details →
El cielo subterraneo
1988 · Movie
★ 6.7View details →
Macho y hembras
1987 · Movie
★ 6.7View details →
Pasa en las mejores familias
1987 · Movie
Va de Nuez
★ 6.7View details →
Va de Nuez
1986 · Movie
★ 6.8View details →
The Prophet Mimi
1973 · Movie
★ 6.7View details →
La casta divina
1977 · Movie
★ 6.7View details →
The Coming of the King Olmos
1975 · Movie
★ 6.6View details →
El viaje
1977 · Movie
★ 6.5View details →
Maria of My Heart
1979 · Movie
★ 6.5View details →
The Heist
1976 · Movie
★ 6.5View details →
Brothers of the Wind
1977 · Movie
★ 6.3View details →
Las buenas costumbres
1990 · Movie
★ 6.2View details →
Bandidos
1991 · Movie
★ 6.3View details →
Pubertinaje
1978 · Movie
★ 6.0View details →
Moctezuma's Revenge
2002 · Movie
★ 6.3View details →
The Apple of Discord
1968 · Movie
★ 6.0View details →
Viva San Isidro!
1995 · Movie
★ 6.0View details →
If I Never See You Again
1997 · Movie
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Perfume, efecto inmediato
1994 · Movie
★ 5.8View details →
El Viaje de la Nonna
2008 · Movie
★ 6.0View details →
Celestina
1976 · Movie
★ 6.0View details →
Reed: Insurgent Mexico
1972 · Movie
★ 6.0View details →
Those Years
1974 · Movie
★ 5.6View details →
I Murder Seriously
2002 · Movie
★ 5.7View details →
Luces de la noche
1998 · Movie
★ 5.9View details →
The Aztec Karate Fighter
1976 · Movie
★ 5.6View details →
Compassionate Sex
2000 · Movie
★ 5.7View details →
The Humiliated
1986 · Movie
★ 5.5View details →
Sea of Dreams
2006 · Movie
★ 5.8View details →
En Defensa Propia
1978 · Movie
★ 5.7View details →
Cuentos de Principes y Princesas
1981 · Movie
★ 5.5View details →
El tesoro de Clotilde
1994 · Movie
★ 5.7View details →
El perro y la calentura
1976 · Movie
★ 5.6View details →
Naufragio
1978 · Movie
★ 5.3View details →
Love, Pain and Vice Versa
2008 · Movie
Murieron a la mitad del rio
★ 5.5View details →
Murieron a la mitad del rio
1986 · Movie