José Manuel Poncelis

Born: None

With a career of more than 35 years as a theater, film, and television series actor, he has also worked as a theater director, also venturing into playwriting and production. He has acted in more than 20 films, some of them are: “Marionetas” by Álvaro Curiel, “Polvo” directed by José María Yaspik, “Sueño en otro Idioma” by Director Ernesto Contreras. He has been awarded the Mayahuel 2017 award and as best actor, with the film “Sueño en otro Idioma” at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in 2017 and with the WINSTON-SALEM OUT AT THE MOVIES LGBT FILM SERIES award. In addition to films like “De la Calle”, “La Ley de Heródes”, “Ricochet”, “Pescador” among others. He has participated in series for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, CANAL 11, FOX AND NETFLIX, among which stand out: Sitiados, Hernán, Biografía de una lengua, La Reina Roja, Palenque.


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Man on Fire

as School Clerk
Released: 2004-04-23

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old...

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¡Que viva México!

as Don Pancracio
Released: 2023-03-23

After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos...

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Herod's Law

as Filemón
Released: 1999-11-09

Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert,...

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Disappear Completely

as Chamán
Released: 2024-02-29

An ambitious and insensitive tabloid crime photographer falls victim to a mysterious illness...

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I Dream in Another Language

as Isauro
Released: 2017-07-28

An indigenous language is in peril, as its last two speakers had a quarrel in the past and...

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Tótem

as Tío Octavio
Released: 2023-09-07

In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations...

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Aztech

as uncredited
Released: 2020-11-20

Fragments of a meteor crash in Mexico and United States. Thirteen stories in different spaces...

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Cero y van cuatro

as Taxista ("El Torzón")
Released: 2004-12-10

Four stories... one city. A dark comedy about crime in the big city: EL TORZON - two friends are...

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Cabeza de Vaca

as Wounded Indian
Released: 1991-10-11

An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off...

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Streeters

as Teporocho
Released: 2001-10-21

Authentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful...

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Hijos del viento

as Chaman
Released: 2000-06-16

As part of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, Rodrigo, a Spanish shipwreck falls in love...

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Crazy Carnival

as La Patria
Released: 2006-03-04

In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary...

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Powder

as Facundo
Released: 2019-11-08

After a ten year absence, El Chato returns to San Ignacio, his hometown, in order to retrieve a...

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Ricochet

as Gallero 1
Released: 2020-10-17

A simple man in a small and quiet town faces a painful episode that reveals the most primitive...

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Marionette

as uncredited
Released: 2020-01-17

Ernesto, a Cuban actor who decides to audition in Mexico, is stranded in the gigantic city when...

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Never on a Sunday

as Pancho
Released: 2006-09-21

A middle-class Mexican family is forced to hire the services of a funeral home with a dubious...

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Under California: The Limit of Time

as Indígena
Released: 1998-09-08

Damian is a married artist living in Los Angeles with his wife. After Damian accidentally hits a...

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La noche de las flores

as uncredited
Released: 2011-09-23

The story of a wooing in which the stepdaughter, Elena, seduces her stepmother. A love story...

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Diente por diente

as Rutilio
Released: 2013-09-06

Pablo Kramsky, a crime reporter for a tabloid newspaper is the victim of a home invasion. A...

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I Don't Want to Be Dust

as Cuidador del cementerio
Released: 2022-12-22

Bego, a housewife in a mid-life crisis, lives bored and afraid of being inconsequential,...

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Ik Dietrick Fon, the hidden sound of things

as Doorman
Released: 2015-01-01

Ik Dietrick Fon is an uncommon story in which love and mystery come together to make way for an...

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Besieged: Mexico

as Chaman
First aired: 2019-07-26

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