Photo: Archive / Diego Gallegos / Agencia Reforma
Alfonso Zayas died at 80 years in Mexico City and with it, gambling and picaresque comedy lost their hero, that one who turned out to be the envy of millions of Mexicans.
Alfonso Zayas, emblem of humor in cinema and hilarious seducer by nature, took over from the box office of the 80, with plots and casts that for many were not very respectable .
Their titles dominated a time when wild humor and lightly nudity paid off their producers. Zayas belonged to that niche of actors that disputed the sex symbols of the moment .
Lalo “El Mimo”, Rafael Inclán , “El Caballo” Rojas, Luis de Alba, “El Flaco” Ibáñez and even Polo Polo were other highly valued . Zayas prevailed. His own classmates recognized him as “king of humor.”
Although with Simple jokes and risque scenes became an idol of crowds, it was the family comedy in which he first triumphed.
It had been a few years of short appearances in sixties films when at the end of that decade and throughout the 70 remained with a hit on TV: “The Well-Maid Maid.” There was “El Tacho”, who together with his unforgettable Chata (María Victoria) and “El Motorcito” (Borolas), formed the most successful trio on TV.
This was repeated on the big screen with “La India” María, before giving her first “sensualoides” winks in “Cabaret Nights” and “Las Cariñosas”, almost at the end of the 70.
The following years brought their strong cards, betting on him Gilberto Martínez Solares, head director of Tin Tan, and directed in others by Víctor Manuel “El Güero” Castro, under the production of Guillermo Calderón, promoter of that cinema.
“I was his Tintancito, he used to say,” he once recalled the director’s words. See Zayas dressed as a woman in a bizarre way in “Hilario Cortés, el Rey del Talón” (1980), it was a laugh. That’s where his successes began.
Only with “La Pulquería 1”, “La Pulquería 2”, “El Vecindario” and “El Ratero de la Vecindad”, plus their subsequent sequels -because the box office commanded- the The actor emerged as the one with the most earnings.
Hence, for the surreal bed scenes, which had everything … except fine eroticism, he They chose the bodies and the most beautiful of the moment.
Although he did not sleep with all of them, he made his fans enjoy him while at the entertainment He was accompanied by filmmaker Angélica Chaín, Lina Santos, Maribel Guardia , Isaura Espinoza, Hilda Aguirre, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Sasha Montenegro, Rebeca Silva, Lorena Herrera , Anaís de Melo and Rubí Re. All “beddable”.
Even the vedettes, what and they were already required for this cinema, they surrendered to Zayas.
Rossy Mendoza, Lyn May, Grace Renat, La Princesa Lea, Wanda Seux, Jeanette Mass and Gloriella, showed their perky busts and even something else, either in bed or in sensual dances.
The blockbusters continued with “El Día del Compadre”, “Las Models de Nude”, “Entre Ficheras Anda el Diablo”, “Las Vedettes”, “Macho que Ladra no Buerde”, “El Día de Los Albañiles ”,“ Esta Noche Cena Pancho ”,“ Tres Mexicanos Ardientes ”,“ Los Verduleros ”,“ Los Plomeros y las Ficheras ”and“ Two Truckers with Luck ”.
Comedian remembered the people by paying a simple tribute to those greengrocers, truckers, bricklayers, boatmen and plumbers, among other trades that he performed to put together his jokes, ligu It is and you lie down.
After the fury of this commercial cinema, the comedian continued to fight with dozens of video homes, a market that still left him juicy profits in the 90 and part of the next century.
Alfonso Zayas will not have won a respectable title of first actor , nor will he be remembered for sublime performances … although he will be subliminal and full of crazy laughter, because thanks to his charisma and flirting tactics, he is considered an icon of comedy.
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