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
- The Yellow Mafia as Germán
- Noche de muerte as Tin Tan
- 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
- Gregorio y su angel as Devil
- Chanoc en las garras de las fieras as Tin Tan / Tsekub Baloyán
- El capitán Mantarraya
- El Quelite as Proculo
1967
- Seis días para morir as José
- Detectives o ladrones..? as Harry
1965
- Face of the Screaming Werewolf as Man in Wax Museum
- Puerto Rico en carnaval
- The Mocking Ghosts as Cyril Ludovico Churchill
- Especialista en chamacas
- Tintansón Cruzoe
1962
- ¡En peligro de muerte! as Marshall Nylon
- Pilotos de la muerte as Octano Pérez y Pérez
- The Treasure of King Solomon as Tin Tan
1961
- El duende y yo as Modesto
- Suicídate mi amor
- Madness from Terror as Pacifico Otero
- Viva Chihuahua
1960
- Tin Tan y las modelos
- House of Terror as Casimiro
- The Phantom of the Operetta as Aldo / Baldomiro Valdes
- Una estrella y dos estrellados as Tin Tan
- La tijera de oro as Pablo Emilio Campos
- El Violetero as Lorenzo Miguel
- Variedades de medianoche
- Rebelde Sin Casa
1959
- El que con niños se acuesta... as Chon
- Two Ghosts and a Girl as Germán Pérez
- Vagabundo y Millonario as Antonio García / Andrés Aguilar
- El cofre del pirata
- 3 Lessons of Love as Germán Valadez
- Vivir del cuento
- Escuela de verano
- Ferias de México
- El pandillero
1958
1957
- The Adventures of Pito Pérez as Pito Perez
- Los tres mosqueteros y medio
- El gato sin botas as Agustín Tancredo (El Gato) / Don Victorio Tancredo
- The Champion Cyclist as Cleto García
- Teatro del crimen as Tin Tan
- Locos Peligrosos as Federico
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
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Inocencio Dantes
- El hombre inquieto as Abel Caim
1953
- Me traes de un ala as Tin Tan
- La isla de las mujeres
- Dios los cría as Tin Tan
- El mariachi desconocido as Agustín
- El vagabundo
- Reportaje as Pachuco composer
1952
- Mi campeón as Tin Tan
- The Sleeping Beauty as Triquitrán
- Las locuras de Tin Tan as Tin Tan
- Chucho El Remendado
- El Ceniciento as Valentin
1951
- Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me! as Tin Tan
- Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!! as Tin-Tan
- Cuando Las Mujeres Mandan
- The Troublemaker as Tin Tan
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
- Soy Charro de Levita as Tin Tan
- ¡No me defiendas, compadre! as Tin-Tan
- Oh What Beautiful Legs! as Tin-Tán
1948
1947
- Con la música por dentro
- El niño perdido as Tin Tan
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