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
The Troublemaker
1951
as Tin Tan
Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
1951
as Tin-Tan
Dios los cría
1953
as Tin Tan
The King of the Neighborhood
1950
as Tin-Tán
Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
1951
as Tin Tan
Me traes de un ala
1953
as Tin Tan
House of Terror
1960
as Casimiro
Trip to the Moon
1958
as Tin Tan
Fuerte, audaz y valiente
1963
Yo quiero ser artista
1958
as Self
Reportaje
1953
as Pachuco composer
El gato sin botas
1957
as Agustín Tancredo (El Gato) / Don Victorio Tancredo
The Count of Monte Cristo
1954
as Inocencio Dantes
The Champion Cyclist
1957
as Cleto García
The Mark of the Skunk
1950
as Tin
They also sing of pain
1950
as Tin Tan
¡No me defiendas, compadre!
1949
Una estrella y dos estrellados
1960
as Tin Tan
Chanoc vs. the Tiger and the Vampire
1972
as Tsekub Baloyán
The Phantom of the Operetta
1960
as Aldo / Baldomiro Valdes