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
- Acapulco 12-22
- La mafia amarilla as Germán
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
- Caín, Abel... y el Otro
- El ogro as Sabas
1970
- El Quelite as Proculo
- El capitán Mantarraya
- Gregorio y su angel as Devil
- Chanoc en las garras de las fieras as Tin Tan / Tsekub Baloyán
1967
- Seis días para morir as José
- Detectives o ladrones..? as Harry
1965
- Face of the Screaming Werewolf as Man in Wax Museum
- Especialista en chamacas
- Puerto Rico en carnaval
- Tintansón Cruzoe
- The Mocking Ghosts as Cyril Ludovico Churchill
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
- Viva Chihuahua
- Suicídate mi amor
- El duende y yo as Modesto
- Madness from Terror as Pacifico Otero
1960
- House of Terror as Casimiro
- The Phantom of the Operetta as Aldo / Baldomiro Valdes
- Variedades de medianoche
- La tijera de oro as Pablo Emilio Campos
- Una estrella y dos estrellados as Tin Tan
- El Violetero as Lorenzo Miguel
- Tin Tan y las modelos
- Rebelde Sin Casa
1959
- Two Ghosts and a Girl as Germán Pérez
- Vagabundo y Millonario as Antonio García / Andrés Aguilar
- Ferias de México
- El que con niños se acuesta... as Chon
- 3 Lessons of Love as Germán Valadez
- El pandillero
- Escuela de verano
- El cofre del pirata
- Vivir del cuento
1958
1957
- Locos Peligrosos as Federico
- The Adventures of Pito Pérez as Pito Perez
- Teatro del crimen as Tin Tan
- Los tres mosqueteros y medio
- El gato sin botas as Agustín Tancredo (El Gato) / Don Victorio Tancredo
- The Champion Cyclist as Cleto García
1956
- El vividor
- El sultán descalzo as Sultán Casquillo
1955
- Lo que le pasó a Sansón as Sanson
- Los líos de Barba Azul as Ricardo
- The Doctor of the Crazy Women
1954
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Inocencio Dantes
- El hombre inquieto as Abel Caim
1953
- Reportaje as Pachuco composer
- Me traes de un ala as Tin Tan
- El mariachi desconocido as Agustín
- Dios los cría as Tin Tan
- El vagabundo
- La isla de las mujeres
1952
- Mi campeón as Tin Tan
- Las locuras de Tin Tan as Tin Tan
- El Ceniciento as Valentin
- The Sleeping Beauty as Triquitrán
- 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!!! as Tin-Tan
- 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
- Oh What Beautiful Legs! as Tin-Tán
- ¡No me defiendas, compadre!
- Soy Charro de Levita 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