Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
9/20/1915
Place of Birth
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Also Known As
Tin TanGermán Genaro Cipriano Gómez Valdés y CastilloGerman Valdes Tin-Tan
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
Los Cacos
as El Muerto
Locos Peligrosos
as Federico
Reportaje
as Pachuco composer
Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
as Tin Tan
The Troublemaker
as Tin Tan
El vagabundo
Unknown Role
El Ceniciento
as Valentin
The King of the Neighborhood
as Tin-Tán
They also sing of pain
as Tin Tan
Viva Chihuahua
Unknown Role
Mi campeón
as Tin Tan
Face of the Screaming Werewolf
as Man in Wax Museum
El Violetero
as Lorenzo Miguel
La disputa
Unknown Role
El Quelite
as Proculo
Dios los cría
as Tin Tan
Music of Always
Unknown Role
The Incredible Professor Zovek
as Chalo
El que con niños se acuesta...
as Chon
Trip to the Moon
as Tin Tan
Career Timeline
1972
1970
1965
1962
1961
1960
The Phantom of the Operetta
as Aldo / Baldomiro Valdes
El Violetero
as Lorenzo Miguel
Una estrella y dos estrellados
as Tin Tan
Tin Tan y las modelos
Role unknown
House of Terror
as Casimiro
La tijera de oro
as Pablo Emilio Campos
Rebelde Sin Casa
Role unknown
Variedades de medianoche
Role unknown
1959
Two Ghosts and a Girl
as Germán Pérez
Escuela de verano
Role unknown
El que con niños se acuesta...
as Chon
Vivir del cuento
Role unknown
Ferias de México
Role unknown
El cofre del pirata
Role unknown
Vagabundo y Millonario
as Antonio García / Andrés Aguilar
3 Lessons of Love
as Germán Valadez
El pandillero
Role unknown