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 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 cafégallery 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 coacting 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