Germán Valdés
Known for Acting
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
La tijera de oro
1960
as Pablo Emilio Campos
The Phantom of the Operetta
1960
as Aldo / Baldomiro Valdes
Trip to the Moon
1958
as Tin Tan
Las tarántulas
1973
Oh What Beautiful Legs!
1949
as Tin-Tán
Fuerte, audaz y valiente
1963
Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
1951
as Tin Tan
They also sing of pain
1950
as Tin Tan
Reportaje
1953
as Pachuco composer
Song of Mexico
1945
as Tin Tan
El vagabundo
1953
House of Terror
1960
as Casimiro
El Quelite
1970
as Proculo
Chanoc en las garras de las fieras
1970
as Tin Tan / Tsekub Baloyán
Face of the Screaming Werewolf
1965
as Man in Wax Museum
The Champion Cyclist
1957
as Cleto García
Yo quiero ser artista
1958
as Self
Locos Peligrosos
1957
as Federico
The Sleeping Beauty
1952
as Triquitrán
Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
1951
as Tin-Tan