Actor
Germán Valdés
September 20, 1915 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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.
Often works with
Marcelo Chávez
11 titles together
The King of the Neighborhood, The Sleeping Beauty, Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
Ramón Valdés
10 titles together
The King of the Neighborhood, The Sleeping Beauty, ¡En peligro de muerte!
Manuel Valdés
5 titles together
Detectives o ladrones..?, The Phantom of the Operetta, El capitán Mantarraya
Famie Kaufman
4 titles together
The King of the Neighborhood, They also sing of pain, The Phantom of the Operetta
Gaspar Henaine
4 titles together
¡En peligro de muerte!, Detectives o ladrones..?, La odalisca No. 13
Marco Antonio Campos
4 titles together
¡En peligro de muerte!, Detectives o ladrones..?, La odalisca No. 13
Full filmography · 101
Noche de muerte
as Tin Tan
1975
The Yellow Mafia
as Germán
1975
Acapulco 12-22
cast
1975
La disputa
cast
1974
Las tarántulas
cast
1973
Los Cacos
as El Muerto
1972
The Incredible Professor Zovek
as Chalo
1972
Chanoc vs. the Tiger and the Vampire
as Tsekub Baloyán
1972
Caín, Abel... y el Otro
cast
1971
El ogro
as Sabas
1971
El Quelite
as Proculo
1970
Chanoc en las garras de las fieras
as Tin Tan / Tsekub Baloyán
1970