Max Kerlow
Known for Acting · 65 credits
- Born
- 1928-03-03
- Died
- 2016-07-06
- Place of birth
- Mexico City, Mexico
Biography
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.
Known For
Movies (65)
Reed: Insurgent Mexico
1972
as Antonio Swafeyta
Cabeza de Vaca
1991
as Man in armor
A Wonderful World
2006
as Sacerdote
Compassionate Sex
2000
as Vendedor de colmado
Viva San Isidro!
1995
as Don Cayetano
Luces de la noche
1998
as Engineer Klein
Foxtrot
1976
as Captain
Esmeralda Comes by Night
1997
as Priest in hospital
Love, Pain and Vice Versa
2008
as Paciente anciano
The Bees
1978
as Representative at the United Nations - U.S.S.R.
I Escaped from Devil's Island
1973
as Pelliserre
Nora's Will
2008
as Rabbi Jacowitz
The Mansion of Madness
1973
as Dr. Maillard
Letters from Marusia
1975
as Engineer
Sea of Dreams
2006
as Glass blower
My Mexican Shivah
2007
as Rubinstein
Frida Still Life
1986
as Leon Trotsky
Macho y hembras
1987
Cómodas mensualidades
1992
Naufragio
1978
as Marino III
Those Years
1974
as Von Thun
Las Poquianchis
1976
as Reportero (uncredited)
I Murder Seriously
2002
as Don Eulalio
Lucía, Lucía
2003
as Old Wehner
The Humiliated
1986
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017
as Self
The Queen of the Night
1994
as Serge
El Viaje de la Nonna
2008
as Public Notary
The Heist
1976
as Preso del suéter amarillo
Pubertinaje
1978
What Do You Think?
1986
La casta divina
1977
as Arzobispo de Yucatán
En Defensa Propia
1978
The Apple of Discord
1968
Murieron a la mitad del rio
1986
as Mr. Walker
Cuentos de Principes y Princesas
1981
Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
1993
as Italian Superior Priest
The Coming of the King Olmos
1975
La última noche
2005
as Don Cecilio
The Diabolical
1977
as Dueño de la tienda
If I Never See You Again
1997
as Gonzalo
Maria of My Heart
1979
as Esposo de madrina
The Prophet Mimi
1973
as Don Paco
El tesoro de Clotilde
1994
as Justo
Brothers of the Wind
1977
as Amberson
Las buenas costumbres
1990
as Félix Morin
Pasa en las mejores familias
1987
Bandidos
1991
as Sacerdote
Aunt Isabel's Garden
1972
Moctezuma's Revenge
2002
as Sr. Malverde
Ziuta Travesías
2024
as Max Kerlow
Celestina
1976
Three Stories of Love
1978
Sex Education In Brief Lessons
1997
The Aztec Karate Fighter
1976
as Fritz Kartoffel
Dentro de la noche
1991
Perfume, efecto inmediato
1994
Remembrance
2003
Espíritu deportivo
2004
as Corsario Moreno
El viaje
1977
El cielo subterraneo
1988
Va de Nuez
1986
El perro y la calentura
1976
Juegos nocturnos
1992
Bodas Negras
1994
About 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 ass… With 65 credits spanning from 1968 to 2024, Max Kerlow has appeared in 65 films and 0 TV shows.
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Most Popular Max Kerlow Movies
- Reed: Insurgent Mexico (1972) — as Antonio Swafeyta
- Cabeza de Vaca (1991) — as Man in armor
- A Wonderful World (2006) — as Sacerdote
- Compassionate Sex (2000) — as Vendedor de colmado
- Viva San Isidro! (1995) — as Don Cayetano
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