Germán Valdés
Birthday: 1915-09-20
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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.
Movies
Caín, Abel... y el Otro
Three early twenties guys in Acapulco competing for women... they end up marooned on a desert island...
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Trip to the Moon
In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where conf...
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What a Beautiful Legs!
A man hired to impersonate a bankrupt business mogul who is currently on the run from creditors sets...
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The Mark of the Skunk
In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned fro...
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The Phantom of the Operetta
Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabit...
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Suicídate mi amor
Tin Tan is an eccentric wealthy man who comes across a beautiful woman who doesn't want to live anym...
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Gregorio y su angel
An alcoholic janitor is fired from his job at an orphanage, and is befriended by an angel in the gui...
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El duende y yo
Modesto works as clerk in the Vulcania company and aims to start a project to benefit the workers wh...
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El Ceniciento
Valentin reaches Mexico City to stay with his countrymen Marcelo and Sirenia, parents of thirteen ...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Inocencio Dante, the intendant of a bank, where the director Don Miguel and their children; Marga wh...
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Soy Charro de Levita
Tin-Tan and his carnal Marcelo take over Carmelita baby for a few hours, and suddenly, the three are...
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The Adventures of Pito Pérez
After a long absence, a man returns to his village and recounts all his adventures with a touch of n...
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The King of the Neighborhood
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor....
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Ni Muy, Muy... ni Tan, Tan... simplemente Tin Tan
"Ni Muy Muy, Ni Tan Tan, Simplemente, Tin Tan. Tin Tan was one of the greatest comdedian-act...
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Especialista en chamacas
Young doctor Jaime attends his father's clinic where Diana, a singer, is carried by emergency. After...
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El niño perdido
If you survive the first half with his delicious absurdity, your reward is the second half, on the s...
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Simbad el Mareado
The Mexican comedy Simbad el Mareado stars the popular comic Tin-Tan. The story concerns the adventu...
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Dios los cría
Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even real...
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Chucho El Remendado
"Gentleman bandit" acts out ridiculous schemes to steal valuables from his society friends....
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The Naughty Son
A poor young man is mistaken for a millionaire when he travels to the city to fulfill his dream of b...
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Rebelde Sin Casa
Tin Tan interfered in a bank robbery, then got arrested when the perp.s escaped. Crooks and police a...
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Lo que le pasó a Sansón
Comedic retelling of the events around the biblical character: Samson....
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Acapulco 12-22
Tourist industry dudes moonlight as karate detectives, solving crimes committed among the mod young ...
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Con la música por dentro
Tin-Tan disguises himself as a European Grande-Dame to insinuate himself into the lives of a rich fa...
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El hombre inquieto
Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son....
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The Sleeping Beauty
A Mexican comedy loosely playing off of the tale of Sleeping Beauty. A caveman wakes up after a thou...
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El mariachi desconocido
This film is considered one of Tin Tan's funniest comedies. This time, the charismatic comedian inca...
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The Doctor of the Crazy Women
Unanimously flunking his professional medical exam, Apolonio dabbles with more enthusiasm than idea ...
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El ángel y yo
Ex-con breaks into a house and ends up bonding with a toddler instead of burgling the way he'd plann...
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Una estrella y dos estrellados
In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among ...
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The Troublemaker
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and som...
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El Quelite
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales...
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Pilotos de la muerte
A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechan...
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La tijera de oro
The charitable Emilio is a jealous barber tries to prevent at all costs the rich toting Mario mess w...
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El gato sin botas
Target of ridicule from fellow military academy, the cowardly Augustin did not want to return to the...
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Detectives o ladrones..?
Two bumbling bozos with detective licenses get hoodwinked by a pair of jewel-thieves....
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¡Paso a la juventud..!
Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate...
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Teatro del crimen
In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer....
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The Incredible Professor Zovek
Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters....
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The Champion Cyclist
Cleto, a poor newspaper boy, dreamed of becoming a cyclist and inventor. His latest invention is del...
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Noche de muerte
Someone who wears a blue mask, is squat and has giant hands are killing people and stealing jewelry ...
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Locos Peligrosos
A cellist and a pianist, along with the daughter of the owner of a musical home, form a classical tr...
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Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby,...
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Me traes de un ala
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along wit...
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El sultán descalzo
Jack-of-all-trades interferes in his neighbors' lives, then has to set everything straight....
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Cuando Las Mujeres Mandan
Cuban fantasy-comedy about a lost civilization where women are the dominant social group. Guest appe...
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Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
Tin Tan falls in love with a young woman who does not love him, but when he wins the lottery she cha...
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Chanoc en las garras de las fieras
Comic-book adaptation: Tarzan-type in the Mexican outback....
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Ferias de México
Itinerant card-shark with pre-teen daughter adopts an orphan boy; the children grow up and fall in l...
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Las mil y una noches
Professional story-teller falls afoul of a sultan, but saves himself from execution using the tricks...
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¡No me defiendas, compadre!
A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes t...
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La disputa
The wife of a philandering husband tries to engineer a situation in which she can photograph him in ...
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Tin Tan
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawi...
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Puerto Rico en carnaval
Tin Tan sets off for adventure on the isle of Puerto Rico. This musical comedy takes place in the In...
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El que con niños se acuesta...
Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search o...
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Two Ghosts and a Girl
Two ghosts who died in a turn-of-the-century duel and now haunt a theater attempt to help a girl who...
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The Mocking Ghosts
Two fake fortune-tellers at a carnival accidentally conjure up some real ghosts....
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Yo quiero ser artista
The Postman Adalberto is involved by chance in the filming of a scene, which gives the film director...
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3 Lessons of Love
The rigid professor Germán, president of the League of Honor and Modesty, hates statues of naked wom...
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La mafia amarilla
Blue Demon must stop an evil chinese gang and their reign of terror....
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Chanoc vs. the Tiger and the Vampire
Chanoc must defeat an evil vampire known as Count Frankenhausen....
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Reportaje
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve....
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Los tres mosqueteros y medio
Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely....
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House of Terror
Casimiro, night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, is even more sleepy than his usual laziness mak...
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Face of the Screaming Werewolf
Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pas...
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Músico, poeta y loco
An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulf...
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Song of Mexico
Actress Carol Adams retires from the theater when she becomes engaged to businessman Gregory Davis, ...
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El pandillero
Gangsters kidnap the writer of a crime-drama radio program to plot their heists for them....
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Los líos de Barba Azul
A news reporter falls in love with a millionaire's young daughter, but her father tells him he won't...
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They also sing of pain
The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his ho...
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Mi campeón
Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to he...
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Las tarántulas
From the 'Chanoc' series of comic-book adaptations: Chanoc and his entourage face off against a jewe...
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Vivir del cuento
X has to postpone his marriage for 3 months in order to collect a huge inheritance... so he hires Y ...
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El capitán Mantarraya
Elderly sea captain charms and delights an audience of children, telling them stories about the high...
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El vagabundo
Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus....
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Escuela de verano
Aging lecher struggles to launch an institution of higher learning for young ladies....
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El cofre del pirata
Bankrupt millionaire discovers a treasure map belonging to a distant ancestor....
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School for Mothers-in-Law
Dizzy society matron plucks a hobo out of the gutter to rehabilitate him....
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La odalisca No. 13
The Emir of Beirutistan gets the hots for a Mexican singer and arranges to have her kidnapped. Her c...
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Variedades de medianoche
Two unknown performers try to break into television. Meanwhile, a guy that calls himself 'El Vengado...
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Viva Chihuahua
Respectable guy uses a pseudonym when he wants to cut loose in a neighboring town. A friend of his p...
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Tin Tan y las modelos
Ambitious non-starter gets a job as a bill-collector at a beauty-products company and tries to bluff...
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Music of Always
Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about fr...
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Hotel de verano
This Musical-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, features American actress Janice Logan as the dutifu...
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The Noiseless Dead
Tin-tan gets involved in what seem to be a murder at the local house of wax....
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