Actor

Germán Valdés

Acting

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Acting credits

100

Prolific

Very extensive acting filmography.

TMDB popularity

3.6

Moderate attention

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Movies: 98Series: 2Crew credits: 3

TMDB ID: 585981

IMDb ID: nm0848910

Known for: Acting

Born: September 20, 1915

Died: June 29, 1973

Age: 57

Place of birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1943 - 2021

Years active: 79

Average TMDB rating: 7.53

Wikidata: Q41129

Also known as

Tin Tan • Germán Genaro Cipriano Gómez Valdés y Castillo • German Valdes Tin-Tan • Topillo

Other jobs

Producer (2)Director (1)

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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.