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
- Acapulco 12-22
- Noche de muerte as Tin Tan
- La mafia amarilla as Germán
1974
1973
1972
- Los Cacos as El Muerto
- The Incredible Professor Zovek as Chalo
- Chanoc vs. the Tiger and the Vampire as Tsekub Baloyán
1970
- El Quelite as Proculo
- Chanoc en las garras de las fieras as Tin Tan / Tsekub Baloyán
- Gregorio y su angel as Devil
- El capitán Mantarraya
1967
- Detectives o ladrones..? as Harry
- Seis días para morir as José
1965
- Tintansón Cruzoe
- The Mocking Ghosts as Cyril Ludovico Churchill
- Especialista en chamacas
- Puerto Rico en carnaval
1964
- Face of the Screaming Werewolf as Man in Wax Museum
1962
- ¡En peligro de muerte! as Marshall Nylon
- Pilotos de la muerte as Octano Pérez y Pérez
- El Tesoro del Rey Salomon as Tin Tan
1961
- Viva Chihuahua
- Suicídate mi amor
- Madness from Terror as Pacifico Otero
- El duende y yo as Modesto
1960
- El Violetero as Lorenzo Miguel
- Tin Tan y las modelos
- House of Terror as Casimiro
- Una estrella y dos estrellados as Tin Tan
- The Phantom of the Operetta as Aldo / Baldomiro Valdes
- Rebelde Sin Casa
- La tijera de oro as Pablo Emilio Campos
- Variedades de medianoche
1959
- El pandillero
- Ferias de México
- Two Ghosts and a Girl as Germán Pérez
- El que con niños se acuesta... as Chon
- El cofre del pirata
- Escuela de verano
- Vagabundo y Millonario as Antonio García / Andrés Aguilar
- Vivir del cuento
- 3 Lessons of Love as Germán Valadez
1958
1957
- Locos Peligrosos as Federico
- Los tres mosqueteros y medio
- The Champion Cyclist as Cleto García
- The Adventures of Pito Pérez as Pito Perez
- El gato sin botas as Agustín Tancredo (El Gato) / Don Victorio Tancredo
- Teatro del crimen as Tin Tan
1956
- El vividor
- El sultán descalzo as Sultán Casquillo
1955
- Los líos de Barba Azul as Ricardo
- Lo que le pasó a Sansón as Sanson
- The Doctor of the Crazy Women
1954
- El hombre inquieto as Abel Caim
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Inocencio Dantes
1953
- Reportaje as Pachuco composer
- El vagabundo
- El mariachi desconocido as Agustín
- Me traes de un ala as Tin Tan
- Dios los cría as Tin Tan
- La isla de las mujeres
1952
- El Ceniciento as Valentin
- Las locuras de Tin Tan as Tin Tan
- The Sleeping Beauty as Triquitrán
- Mi campeón as Tin Tan
- Chucho El Remendado
1951
- The Troublemaker as Tin Tan
- Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me! as Tin Tan
- Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
- Cuando Las Mujeres Mandan
1950
- The King of the Neighborhood as Tin-Tán
- They also sing of pain as Tin Tan
- The Mark of the Skunk as Tin
- Simbad el Mareado as Simbad
1949
- ¡No me defiendas, compadre!
- Soy Charro de Levita as Tin Tan
- What a Beautiful Legs! as Tin-Tán
1948
1947
- El niño perdido as Tin Tan
- Con la música por dentro
1946
- The Noiseless Dead as Tin Tan
1945
- The Naughty Son as Germán Rico / Tin Tan
- Song of Mexico as Tin Tan
1944
1943
- El que la traga la paga as Vagabundo de Playa