

Germán Valdés
Acting
September 20, 1915
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
June 29, 1973
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.
The Filmography


The Count of Monte Cristo

Dios los cría

El vagabundo

Me traes de un ala

The Sleeping Beauty

Chucho El Remendado

El Ceniciento

Las locuras de Tin Tan

Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!

The Troublemaker

Simbad el Mareado

They also sing of pain

¡No me defiendas, compadre!
