Germán Valdés
Born: 1915-09-20 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Died: 1973-06-29
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2021
- Un día para vivir as Cristian
2015
- Tanto Amor as René Lombardo Méndez
2010
- Drenaje Profundo as Diego
- Tin Tan as Himself (Archive Footage)
2005
1975
- Noche de muerte as Tin Tan
- The Yellow Mafia as Germán
- Acapulco 12-22
1974
1973
1972
- The Incredible Professor Zovek as Chalo
- Chanoc vs. the Tiger and the Vampire as Tsekub Baloyán
- Los Cacos as El Muerto
1971
- El ogro as Sabas
- Caín, Abel... y el Otro
1970
- El Quelite as Proculo
- El capitán Mantarraya
- Chanoc en las garras de las fieras as Tin Tan / Tsekub Baloyán
- Gregorio y su angel as Devil
1967
- Detectives o ladrones..? as Harry
- Seis días para morir as José
1965
- Tintansón Cruzoe
- Face of the Screaming Werewolf as Man in Wax Museum
- The Mocking Ghosts as Cyril Ludovico Churchill
- Especialista en chamacas
- Puerto Rico en carnaval
1962
- Pilotos de la muerte as Octano Pérez y Pérez
- ¡En peligro de muerte! as Marshall Nylon
- The Treasure of King Solomon as Tin Tan
1961
- Suicídate mi amor
- Madness from Terror as Pacifico Otero
- Viva Chihuahua
- El duende y yo as Modesto
1960
- Tin Tan y las modelos
- House of Terror as Casimiro
- La tijera de oro as Pablo Emilio Campos
- The Phantom of the Operetta as Aldo / Baldomiro Valdes
- Rebelde Sin Casa
- Una estrella y dos estrellados as Tin Tan
- Variedades de medianoche
- El Violetero as Lorenzo Miguel
1959
- Vagabundo y Millonario as Antonio García / Andrés Aguilar
- El cofre del pirata
- El pandillero
- Vivir del cuento
- Two Ghosts and a Girl as Germán Pérez
- Escuela de verano
- El que con niños se acuesta... as Chon
- 3 Lessons of Love as Germán Valadez
- Ferias de México
1958
1957
- The Adventures of Pito Pérez as Pito Perez
- The Champion Cyclist as Cleto García
- El gato sin botas as Agustín Tancredo (El Gato) / Don Victorio Tancredo
- Teatro del crimen as Tin Tan
- Locos Peligrosos as Federico
- Los tres mosqueteros y medio
1956
- El vividor
- El sultán descalzo as Sultán Casquillo
1955
- Los líos de Barba Azul as Ricardo
- The Doctor of the Crazy Women
- Lo que le pasó a Sansón as Sanson
1954
- El hombre inquieto as Abel Caim
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Inocencio Dantes
1953
- Dios los cría as Tin Tan
- Me traes de un ala as Tin Tan
- Reportaje as Pachuco composer
- La isla de las mujeres
- El mariachi desconocido as Agustín
- El vagabundo
1952
- Mi campeón as Tin Tan
- The Sleeping Beauty as Triquitrán
- Chucho El Remendado
- Las locuras de Tin Tan as Tin Tan
- El Ceniciento as Valentin
1951
- The Troublemaker as Tin Tan
- Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!! as Tin-Tan
- Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me! as Tin Tan
- Cuando Las Mujeres Mandan
1950
- The King of the Neighborhood as Tin-Tán
- The Mark of the Skunk as Tin
- They also sing of pain as Tin Tan
- Simbad el Mareado as Simbad
1949
- Oh What Beautiful Legs! as Tin-Tán
- Soy Charro de Levita as Tin Tan
- ¡No me defiendas, compadre! as Tin-Tan
1948
1947
- El niño perdido as Tin Tan
- Con la música por dentro
1946
- The Noiseless Dead as Tin Tan
1945
- Song of Mexico as Tin Tan
- The Naughty Son as Germán Rico / Tin Tan
1944
1943
- El que la traga la paga as Vagabundo de Playa