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Birth name Alejandro Reyna García

Alejandro Reyna, also known as "el Tío Plácido", was a Mexican comic character actor and singer. Reyna usually appeared in films starring Antonio Aguilar. Reyna received a starring role as "Plácido Buenavista" in El ojo de vidrio.

Born in Torreón, Coahuila; Reyna sang norteña music in the group "el Tío Plácido, con sus Sobrinos". He appeared in films, in 1958 and left cinema in 1982. After many minor roles, Reyna was given a special billing in Caballo prieto azabache. He was mostly cast as one of Aguilar's sidekicks along with Eleazar García "Chelelo". Such is the case in Lucio Vázquez and Lauro Puñales.

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Filmography of Alejandro Reyna (10 films)

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Valente Quintero, 1h25
Directed by Mario Hernández
Themes Political films
Actors Antonio Aguilar, Saby Kamalich, Sara García, Flor Silvestre, Enriqueta Jiménez, Alejandro Reyna
Roles Doctor Plácido
Rating67% 3.398933.398933.398933.398933.39893
In the contemporary era (circa 1973), two foreign tourists make a stop at the provincial town of Perales. Two small memorials surrounded by pebbles in a corner of a street attract their attention. On the meantime, two elderly veterans of the Mexican Revolution, Chelelo and Cornelio, come out from a nearby building to receive them. They explain to the tourists about the memorials and to whom are they in memory of. Chelelo then recounts the story of two revolutionary friends, Sub-lieutenant Valente Quintero and Major Atanasio Pizarro, who are fighting a battle in one of Perales' residential streets. Valente is severely injured when he is shot in front of the late General Gumersindo Carrillo's house where his widow, doña Elvira Peña, his daughter, Leonor Carrillo, and their housemaid, Carmen, reside. Leonor witnesses when Valente is shot and is decided to go out and help him, against her mother's wishes. Leonor then tells her mother that she is returning a favor that could have been made to her father, who helplessly died while bleeding in the midst of a forest. Leonor therefore runs across the street to get the town's drunkard physician, Doctor Plácido. Elvira, Carmen, and Leonor carry Valente into the house and lay him in a bed. Valente stays ill in bed for several days and his friend Atanasio later receives word about his survival. Atanasio is falls in love with the elegant and sophisticated Leonor and admires the conservative and sharp-tongued matron Elvira. Valente and Leonor also start a romantic relationship, which lead them to marriage. Atanasio, who is now a rich and alcoholic landowner, duels Valente for the love of Leonor on the night of their honeymoon. The conflict ends with both Valente and Atanasio being killed by one another.
Lauro Puñales, 1h27
Directed by René Cardona
Themes Political films
Actors Antonio Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Elsa Cárdenas, Alma Delia Fuentes, Carlos López Moctezuma, Alejandro Reyna
Roles Albino (as Alejandro Reyna 'Tio Placido')
Rating62% 3.130443.130443.130443.130443.13044
In Emiliano Zapata's hometown of Anenecuilco lives Lauro Puñales, a famous revolutionary leader and agrarian. The town's political boss and municipal president are confidants to the federals. The political boss urges the peasants to give him back the lands that they took from them, albeit Lauro defends the peasants and also promotes the revolutionary cause. He is in love with Rosenda, a widow and daughter of notable citizen Damián Rodríguez.
El ojo de vidrio, 1h57
Directed by René Cardona Jr.
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Flor Silvestre, Antonio Aguilar, Alejandro Reyna, Arturo Martínez, Raúl Meraz, Arturo Castro
Roles Plácido Buenavista (as Alejandro Reyna 'Tio Placido')
Rating39% 1.9755951.9755951.9755951.9755951.975595
Castle of the Monsters, 1h30
Directed by Julián Soler
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Wolves in film, Frankenstein films, Werewolves in film, Vampires in film, Cyberpunk films
Actors Evangelina Elizondo, Alejandro Reyna
Roles Licenciado
Rating63% 3.163713.163713.163713.163713.16371
Mexican funnyman, El Clavillazo (Antonio Espino), is in love with a seamstress named Beatriz (Evangelina Elizondo), and also hangs out with a variety of odd characters, including a newsboy and a mental patient. Meanwhile, at the nearby castle, a mad scientist named “Dr Sputnik” and his scarred, hunchbacked assistant are busy making monsters. The doctor poses as a kindly blind man in town and uses hypnosis to lure Beatriz to his castle, brainwashing her into believing that she is his own love named “Galatea”. El Clavillazo, with an assist from his friends, blunders his way into the castle, where he spends most of his time being chased around by various monsters. There is the butler, who looks like the Frankenstein Monster. The rest of the monsters include a werewolf, a mummy, a vampire (clearly modeled after Count Dracula) and a gill-man (clearly patterned after "Creature from the Black Lagoon"). There is also another, unidentified monster being kept in a cell (why it is not allowed to run free with the rest is not known), which is referred to as a “gorilla” in some reviews, although it appears to be more of a humanoid ape-like creature, perhaps based on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In the end, El Clavillazo manages to defeat the monsters, mostly by luck, and rescue the girl. A chemical in Sputnik’s lab devolves the gill-man into a big fish, the werewolf is choked out by the monster in the cell (perhaps that is why he was kept behind bars), Frankenstein accidentally electrocutes himself by grabbing a power cable in the lab and turns into cogs and clock-parts, the mummy falls into a pit of alligators and is devoured, and the vampire vanishes when the sun rises. Dr Sputnik has the usual falling out that all mad scientists seem to eventually have with their deformed assistants (usually due to the scientist mistreating his assistant, or the assistant developing a crush on a girl the scientist has designs on, or sometimes a combination of both), resulting in his being shot after he stabs the scarred hunchback. Clavillazo and Beatriz are trapped in a room and about to be crushed by the walls moving together when they are rescued in the nick of time by the rest of the gang, and they all live happily ever after.