José Manuel Poncelis
- Known for
- Acting
- Died
- August 31, 2024
- Movies
- 24
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2025 | Curandero | Jesús |
| 2024 | Disappear Completely | Chamán |
| 2023 | Tótem | Tío Octavio |
| 2023 | ¡Que viva México! | Don Pancracio |
| 2022 | I Don't Want to Be Dust | Cuidador del cementerio |
| 2020 | Aztech | |
| 2020 | Ricochet | Gallero 1 |
| 2020 | Marionette | |
| 2019 | Powder | Facundo |
| 2017 | I Dream in Another Language | Isauro |
| 2015 | Ik Dietrick Fon, the hidden sound of things | Doorman |
| 2013 | Diente por diente | Rutilio |
| 2011 | La noche de las flores | |
| 2006 | Never on a Sunday | Pancho |
| 2006 | Crazy Carnival | La Patria |
| 2005 | National Geographic: Pyramids of Death | Self |
| 2004 | Cero y van cuatro | Taxista ("El Torzón") |
| 2004 | Man on Fire | School Clerk |
| 2002 | The Tiger of Santa Julia | Carmelo |
| 2001 | Streeters | Teporocho |
| 2000 | Hijos del viento | Chaman |
| 1999 | Herod's Law | Filemón |
| 1998 | Under California: The Limit of Time | Indígena |
| 1991 | Cabeza de Vaca | Wounded Indian |
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