Germán Valdés

Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Born
September 20, 1915 (57 years old)
Died
June 29, 1973
Place of Birth
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Popular Genres
Comedy Drama Music
Career Span
1943 – 2010

Germán Valdés

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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Personal Info

Born
Sep 20, 1915
From
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Known For
Acting
Career
1943 – 2010

Known For

Las locuras de Tin Tan
Las locuras de Tin Tan
1952
as Tin Tan
They also sing of pain
They also sing of pain
1950
as Tin Tan
The Troublemaker
The Troublemaker
1951
as Tin Tan
The King of the Neighborhood
The King of the Neighborhood
1950
as Tin-Tán
Locos Peligrosos
Locos Peligrosos
1957
as Federico
Mi campeón
Mi campeón
1952
as Tin Tan
El mariachi desconocido
El mariachi desconocido
1953
as Agustín
Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
1951
as Tin Tan
The Phantom of the Operetta
The Phantom of the Operetta
1960
as Aldo / Baldomiro Valdes
La tijera de oro
La tijera de oro
1960
as Pablo Emilio Campos
Noche de muerte
Noche de muerte
1975
as Tin Tan
Ni Muy, Muy... ni Tan, Tan... simplemente Tin Tan
Ni Muy, Muy... ni Tan, Tan... simplemente Tin Tan
2005
as Himself

Frequent Collaborators

Marcelo Chávez
Marcelo Chávez
4 shared projects
in "Locos Peligrosos"
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Humberto Rodríguez
3 shared projects
in "The King of the Neighborhood"
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Ramón Valdés
Ramón Valdés
3 shared projects
in "The King of the Neighborhood"
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Joaquín García Vargas
Joaquín García Vargas
2 shared projects
in "The King of the Neighborhood"
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Florencio Castelló
Florencio Castelló
2 shared projects
in "They also sing of pain"
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Wolf Ruvinskis
Wolf Ruvinskis
2 shared projects
in "The Troublemaker"
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Stephen Berne
2 shared projects
in "The Troublemaker"
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Famie Kaufman
2 shared projects
in "The King of the Neighborhood"
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Jaime Calpe
2 shared projects
in "The King of the Neighborhood"
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Rubén Márquez
2 shared projects
in "The King of the Neighborhood"
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Félix Samper
2 shared projects
in "The Troublemaker"
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Ángela Rodríguez
2 shared projects
in "The Troublemaker"
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Complete Filmography

2010

Tin Tan as Himself (Archive Footage)

2005

Ni Muy, Muy... ni Tan, Tan... simplemente Tin Tan as Himself Award

1975

Noche de muerte as Tin Tan Award
La mafia amarilla as Germán Award
Acapulco 12-22

1974

La disputa

1973

Las tarántulas

1972

The Incredible Professor Zovek as Chalo
Los Cacos as El Muerto
Chanoc vs. the Tiger and the Vampire as Tsekub Baloyán

1971

Caín, Abel... y el Otro

1970

El Quelite as Proculo
Gregorio y su angel as Devil
El capitán Mantarraya
Chanoc en las garras de las fieras as Tin Tan / Tsekub Baloyán

1967

Seis días para morir as José
Detectives o ladrones..? as Harry

1966

El ángel y yo
Loco por ellas

1965

Tintansón Cruzoe
Especialista en chamacas
The Mocking Ghosts as Cyril Ludovico Churchill
Puerto Rico en carnaval

1964

Face of the Screaming Werewolf as Man in Wax Museum

1963

Fuerte, audaz y valiente
Tin-Tán El Hombre Mono

1962

Pilotos de la muerte as Octano Pérez y Pérez
¡En peligro de muerte! as Marshall Nylon
El Tesoro del Rey Salomon as Tin Tan

1961

Suicídate mi amor
El duende y yo as Modesto
Madness from Terror as Pacifico Otero
Viva Chihuahua

1960

The Phantom of the Operetta as Aldo / Baldomiro Valdes
La tijera de oro as Pablo Emilio Campos Award
Tin Tan y las modelos
Rebelde Sin Casa
Una estrella y dos estrellados as Tin Tan
House of Terror as Casimiro
Variedades de medianoche
El Violetero as Lorenzo Miguel

1959

El que con niños se acuesta... as Chon
El pandillero
Vivir del cuento
Vagabundo y Millonario as Antonio García / Andrés Aguilar
Two Ghosts and a Girl as Germán Pérez
3 Lessons of Love as Germán Valadez
Escuela de verano
Ferias de México
El cofre del pirata

1958

Trip to the Moon as Tin Tan Award
Yo quiero ser artista as Self
Music of Always
Las mil y una noches
School for Mothers-in-Law
Refifí entre las mujeres as Refifí
La odalisca No. 13
¡Paso a la juventud..!

1957

Locos Peligrosos as Federico Award
The Champion Cyclist as Cleto García
Los tres mosqueteros y medio
El gato sin botas as Agustín Tancredo (El Gato) / Don Victorio Tancredo
Teatro del crimen as Tin Tan
The Adventures of Pito Pérez as Pito Perez

1956

El sultán descalzo as Sultán Casquillo
El vividor

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 Award
The Count of Monte Cristo as Inocencio Dantes

1953

El mariachi desconocido as Agustín
Dios los cría as Tin Tan Award
Reportaje as Pachuco composer
Me traes de un ala as Tin Tan
La isla de las mujeres
El vagabundo

1952

Las locuras de Tin Tan as Tin Tan Award
Mi campeón as Tin Tan Award
The Sleeping Beauty as Triquitrán
El Ceniciento as Valentin
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

They also sing of pain as Tin Tan
The King of the Neighborhood as Tin-Tán Award
The Mark of the Skunk as Tin
Simbad el Mareado as Simbad

1949

What a Beautiful Legs! as Tin-Tán
Soy Charro de Levita as Tin Tan
¡No me defiendas, compadre!

1948

Músico, poeta y loco

1947

El niño perdido as Tin Tan
Con la música por dentro

1945

Song of Mexico as Tin Tan
The Naughty Son as Germán Rico / Tin Tan

1944

Hotel de verano

1943

El que la traga la paga as Vagabundo de Playa

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