Germán Valdés
Acting Born Sep 20, 1915 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico 24 credits
Biography
Better known as Tin Tan, was an actor,singer and comedian who was born in Mexico City but was raised and began his career in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. He often displayed the pachuco dress and employed pachuco slang in many of his movies, some with his brothers Manuel "El Loco" Valdésand Ramón Valdés. He made the language of the Mexican American pachucos famous in Mexico. A "caló" based in Spanglish, it was a mixture of Spanish and English in speech based on that of Mexican immigrants.
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Full filmography
- Tanto Amor (2015) as René Lombardo Méndez
- Un día para vivir (2021) as Cristian
- Drenaje Profundo (2010) as Diego
- Mi campeón (1952) as Tin Tan
- The King of the Neighborhood (1950) as Tin-Tán
- Las tarántulas (1973)
- Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!! (1951) as Tin-Tan
- The Troublemaker (1951) as Tin Tan
- La odalisca No. 13 (1958)
- Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me! (1951) as Tin Tan
- The Adventures of Pito Pérez (1957) as Pito Perez
- Las locuras de Tin Tan (1952) as Tin Tan
- House of Terror (1960) as Casimiro
- The Sleeping Beauty (1952) as Triquitrán
- Reportaje (1953) as Pachuco composer
- Dios los cría (1953) as Tin Tan
- Trip to the Moon (1958) as Tin Tan
- Noche de muerte (1975) as Tin Tan
- The Mark of the Skunk (1950) as Tin
- La tijera de oro (1960) as Pablo Emilio Campos
- Tin Tan y las modelos (1960)
- Song of Mexico (1945) as Tin Tan
- They also sing of pain (1950) as Tin Tan
- ¡En peligro de muerte! (1962) as Marshall Nylon