Germán Valdés
Actor
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.
As Director
Filmography
The King of the Neighborhood
as Tin-Tán 1950
The Sleeping Beauty
as Triquitrán 1952
Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
1951
They also sing of pain
as Tin Tan 1950
Detectives o ladrones..?
as Harry 1967
¡En peligro de muerte!
as Marshall Nylon 1962
Face of the Screaming Werewolf
as Man in Wax Museum 1965
The Adventures of Pito Pérez
as Pito Perez 1957
The Phantom of the Operetta
as Aldo / Baldomiro Valdes 1960
What a Beautiful Legs!
as Tin-Tán 1949
House of Terror
as Casimiro 1960
Tin Tan y las modelos
1960
Trip to the Moon
as Tin Tan 1958
Reportaje
as Pachuco composer 1953
El capitán Mantarraya
1970
El mariachi desconocido
as Agustín 1953
The Troublemaker
as Tin Tan 1951