Germán Valdés
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.
Acting
Movie
The King of the Neighborhood
as Tin-Tán
1950
Movie
The Sleeping Beauty
as Triquitrán
1952
Movie
Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
as Tin-Tan
1951
Movie
They also sing of pain
as Tin Tan
1950
Movie
Detectives o ladrones..?
as Harry
1967
Movie
¡En peligro de muerte!
as Marshall Nylon
1962
Movie
The Adventures of Pito Pérez
as Pito Perez
1957
Movie
Face of the Screaming Werewolf
as Man in Wax Museum
1965
Movie
The Phantom of the Operetta
as Aldo / Baldomiro Valdes
1960
Movie
Oh What Beautiful Legs!
as Tin-Tán
1949
Movie
The Troublemaker
as Tin Tan
1951
Movie
House of Terror
as Casimiro
1960
Movie
El capitán Mantarraya
1970
Movie
Tin Tan y las modelos
1960
Movie
Trip to the Moon
as Tin Tan
1958
Movie
Reportaje
as Pachuco composer
1953
Movie
El mariachi desconocido
as Agustín
1953
Movie
La odalisca No. 13
1958
Movie
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Inocencio Dantes
1954
Movie
Rebelde Sin Casa
1960
Movie
El hombre inquieto
as Abel Caim
1954
Movie
El gato sin botas
as Agustín Tancredo (El Gato) / Don Victorio Tancredo
1957
Movie
El Ceniciento
as Valentin
1952
Movie
Simbad el Mareado
as Simbad
1950
