Germán Valdés
AKA: Tin Tan
Birthday: 1915-09-20
Died: 1973-06-29
Birthplace: 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.
Filmography
Character: Marshall Nylon
Character: Aldo / Baldomiro Valdes
Character: Inocencio Dantes
Character: Vagabundo de Playa
Character: Germán Rico / Tin Tan
Character: Agustín Tancredo (El Gato) / Don Victorio Tancredo
Character: Octano Pérez y Pérez
Character: Pablo Emilio Campos
Character: Sultán Casquillo
Character: Lorenzo Miguel
Character: Tin Tan / Tsekub Baloyán
Character: Himself (Archive Footage)
Character: Cyril Ludovico Churchill
Character: Germán Valadez
Character: Tsekub Baloyán
Character: Pachuco composer
Character: Antonio García / Andrés Aguilar
Character: Pacifico Otero
Character: Man in Wax Museum