Even though Jose was Hispanic, many of his film characters were French: The Dauphin, Charles, in Jeanne D'Arc (1948), the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Moulin Rouge (1952), Alfred Dreyfus in De zaak Dreyfus (1958) and Athos in The Fifth Musketeer (1979).