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