At age 11, Kelly Reno co-starred with Mickey Rooney — playing a freckle-faced boy who formed a special bond with a horse in "The Black Stallion."
At 37, he's a 6-foot-tall, mustachioed truck driver in Pueblo, Colo.
"I'm just a normal guy," says Reno, who has survived a serious traffic accident, gone through a divorce and given up ranching since he played Alec in the 1979 film.
Reno was living on a ranch in southern Colorado when he auditioned for the part. He reprised the role in the 1983 sequel "The Black Stallion Returns" and later appeared in a handful of other movie and TV roles.
In 1985, a traffic accident placed Reno in a wheelchair for eight months. He married the next year.
He and his wife had three children, but the marriage fell apart in the mid-1990s.