Germán Valdés
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.
Known For
Top 40 Movies
Vivir del cuento
1959
3 Lessons of Love
1959
Variedades de medianoche
1960
Puerto Rico en carnaval
1965
Las tarántulas
1973
Mi campeón
1952
Teatro del crimen
1957
Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
1951
Suicídate mi amor
1961
El pandillero
1959
El gato sin botas
1957
Detectives o ladrones..?
1967
Tintansón Cruzoe
1965
Viva Chihuahua
1961
El Quelite
1970
Las mil y una noches
1958
Noche de muerte
1975
Me traes de un ala
1953
Simbad el Mareado
1950
Hotel de verano
1944
Trip to the Moon
1958
Song of Mexico
1945
Tin Tan y las modelos
1960
They also sing of pain
1950
The King of the Neighborhood
1950
The Mark of the Skunk
1950
Los líos de Barba Azul
1955
The Sleeping Beauty
1952
La disputa
1974
Caín, Abel... y el Otro
1971
Music of Always
1958
Face of the Screaming Werewolf
1965
El mariachi desconocido
1953
Chanoc vs. the Tiger and the Vampire
1972
¡En peligro de muerte!
1962
School for Mothers-in-Law
1958
Ni Muy, Muy... ni Tan, Tan... simplemente Tin Tan
2005
Yo quiero ser artista
1958