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Germán Valdés
Born: 20th Sep 1915 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Died 29th Jun 1973
Dept: Acting
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.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 105
Film: 102 (97%)
Television: 3 (3%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Documentary, Thriller, Western, War
Filmography
Aug 2015 (first aired)
In this novel we will see how love struggles to survive and overcome all obstacles.
The Lombardo family is very wealthy and is one of the most recogn ... view
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René Lombardo Méndez (120 ep.)
2010
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawing attention to the pachuco movement through h ... view
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Himself (Archive Footage)
Oct 2010 (first aired)
Drenaje Profundo is a primetime television series produced by TV Azteca. It stars Ana Serradilla, Rodrigo Murray, Juan Pablo Medina and Elizabeth Cerv ... view
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Diego (20 ep.)
2005
"Ni Muy Muy, Ni Tan Tan, Simplemente, Tin Tan. Tin Tan was one of the greatest comdedian-actors in the history of Mexican Cin ... view
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Himself
1975
Someone who wears a blue mask, is squat and has giant hands are killing people and stealing jewelry and money. The witnesses are afraid to talk, despi ... view
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Tin Tan
1975
Blue Demon must stop an evil chinese gang and their reign of terror. ... view
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Germán
1975
Tourist industry dudes moonlight as karate detectives, solving crimes committed among the mod young jet-setters. ... view
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1974
The wife of a philandering husband tries to engineer a situation in which she can photograph him in a compromising position in order to file for divor ... view
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1973
From the 'Chanoc' series of comic-book adaptations: Chanoc and his entourage face off against a jewel thief who has eyes on a shipwrecked treasure lyi ... view
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El Muerto
Original title: El increíble profesor Zovek
1972
Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters. ... view
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Chalo
Original title: Chanoc contra el tigre y el vampiro
1972
Chanoc must defeat an evil vampire known as Count Frankenhausen. ... view
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Tsekub Baloyán
1971
Three early twenties guys in Acapulco competing for women... they end up marooned on a desert island together... ... view
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1970
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his ... view
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Proculo
1970
Comic-book adaptation: Tarzan-type in the Mexican outback. ... view
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Tin Tan / Tsekub Baloyán
1970
Elderly sea captain charms and delights an audience of children, telling them stories about the high adventures he experienced when he was young. ... view
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1970
An alcoholic janitor is fired from his job at an orphanage, and is befriended by an angel in the guise of a little girl, who proceeds to change his li ... view
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Devil
1967
Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City. ... view
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José
1967
Two bumbling bozos with detective licenses get hoodwinked by a pair of jewel-thieves. ... view
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Harry
1966
Ex-con breaks into a house and ends up bonding with a toddler instead of burgling the way he'd planned. ... view
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1966
Starring Lorena Velazquez, German Valdes, Marcelo Chavez ... view
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1965
Young doctor Jaime attends his father's clinic where Diana, a singer, is carried by emergency. After operating it, Jaime falls in love Diana and decid ... view
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Original title: Los fantasmas burlones
1965
Two fake fortune-tellers at a carnival accidentally conjure up some real ghosts. ... view
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Cyril Ludovico Churchill
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1965
Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena has discovered that Ann Taylor is a reincarn ... view
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Man in Wax Museum
1965
Tin Tan sets off for adventure on the isle of Puerto Rico. This musical comedy takes place in the International Airport of Puerto Rico during a day of ... view
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1962
A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers. ... view
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Octano Pérez y Pérez
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Tin Tan
1961
Respectable guy uses a pseudonym when he wants to cut loose in a neighboring town. A friend of his picks up the pseudonym habit, and they take turns p ... view
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1961
Tin Tan is an eccentric wealthy man who comes across a beautiful woman who doesn't want to live anymore. ... view
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Pacifico Otero
1961
Modesto works as clerk in the Vulcania company and aims to start a project to benefit the workers who work there. Modesto befriends Diana and by confu ... view
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Modesto
Original title: El fantasma de la opereta
1960
Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains ... view
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Aldo / Baldomiro Valdes
1960
In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among other entanglements. ... view
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Tin Tan
1960
Ambitious non-starter gets a job as a bill-collector at a beauty-products company and tries to bluff his way into a management position, then tries a ... view
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Original title: La Casa Del Terror
1960
Casimiro, night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, is even more sleepy than his usual laziness makes him - because his boss, the Professor, is secre ... view
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Casimiro
1960
The charitable Emilio is a jealous barber tries to prevent at all costs the rich toting Mario mess with his girlfriend Rosita. Although Emilio help wi ... view
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Pablo Emilio Campos
1960
Tin Tan interfered in a bank robbery, then got arrested when the perp.s escaped. Crooks and police are both after him... ... view
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1960
Two unknown performers try to break into television. Meanwhile, a guy that calls himself 'El Vengador' is doing a Phantom of the Opera number on the s ... view
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Original title: Dos fantasmas y una muchacha
1959
Two ghosts who died in a turn-of-the-century duel and now haunt a theater attempt to help a girl who's in danger from bank robbers. ... view
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Germán Pérez
1959
Aging lecher struggles to launch an institution of higher learning for young ladies. ... view
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1959
Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, ... view
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Chon
1959
X has to postpone his marriage for 3 months in order to collect a huge inheritance... so he hires Y to keep his fiancee and her father busy during the ... view
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1959
Itinerant card-shark with pre-teen daughter adopts an orphan boy; the children grow up and fall in love. Once they decide to get married, complication ... view
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1959
Bankrupt millionaire discovers a treasure map belonging to a distant ancestor. ... view
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Antonio García / Andrés Aguilar
Original title: 3 Lecciones de Amor
1959
The rigid professor Germán, president of the League of Honor and Modesty, hates statues of naked women, but the spirit of his ancestor Casanova leads ... view
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Germán Valadez
1959
Gangsters kidnap the writer of a crime-drama radio program to plot their heists for them. ... view
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1958
Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate. ... view
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Original title: Escuela para suegras
1958
Dizzy society matron plucks a hobo out of the gutter to rehabilitate him. ... view
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1958
The Emir of Beirutistan gets the hots for a Mexican singer and arranges to have her kidnapped. Her costar and manager tag along to rescue her. ... view
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1958
Professional story-teller falls afoul of a sultan, but saves himself from execution using the tricks of his trade. ... view
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Original title: Música de Siempre
1958
Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all. ... view
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1958
The Postman Adalberto is involved by chance in the filming of a scene, which gives the film director the idea of including him as an actor, but witho ... view
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Self
Original title: Viaje a la luna
1958
In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of the ... view
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Tin Tan
1957
Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely. ... view
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1957
A cellist and a pianist, along with the daughter of the owner of a musical home, form a classical trio. A television producer challenges confronting t ... view
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Federico
1957
Target of ridicule from fellow military academy, the cowardly Augustin did not want to return to their village for fear of confronting his grandfather ... view
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Agustín Tancredo (El Gato) / Don Victorio Tancredo
Original title: El Campeón Ciclista
1957
Cleto, a poor newspaper boy, dreamed of becoming a cyclist and inventor. His latest invention is delivering newspapers by rockets. When he finds the o ... view
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Cleto García
Original title: Las Aventuras de Pito Perez
1957
After a long absence, a man returns to his village and recounts all his adventures with a touch of nostalgia. ... view
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Pito Perez
1957
In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer. ... view
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Tin Tan
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1956
Jack-of-all-trades interferes in his neighbors' lives, then has to set everything straight. ... view
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Sultán Casquillo
1955
Comedic retelling of the events around the biblical character: Samson. ... view
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Sanson
Original title: El médico de las locas
1955
Unanimously flunking his professional medical exam, Apolonio dabbles with more enthusiasm than idea in ballet, theater, painting and sculpture before ... view
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1955
A news reporter falls in love with a millionaire's young daughter, but her father tells him he won't let them marry unless he earns one million Pesos ... view
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Ricardo
1954
Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son. ... view
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Abel Caim
Original title: El Vizconde de Montecristo
1954
Inocencio Dante, the intendant of a bank, where the director Don Miguel and their children; Marga who spends money without control, Polo who spent on ... view
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Inocencio Dantes
1953
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve. ... view
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Pachuco composer
1953
This film is considered one of Tin Tan's funniest comedies. This time, the charismatic comedian incarnates a mariachi musician that lives the most ent ... view
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Agustín
1953
Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jo ... view
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Tin Tan
1953
Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus. ... view
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1953
To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worke ... view
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Tin Tan
Original title: El Bello Durmiente
1952
A Mexican comedy loosely playing off of the tale of Sleeping Beauty. A caveman wakes up after a thousand year slumber. When he awakens he is seen as a ... view
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Triquitrán
1952
Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him b ... view
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Tin Tan
1952
"Gentleman bandit" acts out ridiculous schemes to steal valuables from his society friends. ... view
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1952
Valentin reaches Mexico City to stay with his countrymen Marcelo and Sirenia, parents of thirteen children. Marcelo gladly serves Valentin until he ... view
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Valentin
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Tin Tan
Original title: ¡¡¡Mátenme porque me muero!!!
1951
Tin Tan just won the lottery and wants to donate it to an orphanage. Sataela and Riverita want to keep the money for themselves. In an attenpt to do s ... view
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Tin-Tan
Original title: ¡Ay, amor... cómo me has puesto!
1951
A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scum ... view
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Tin Tan
Original title: El revoltoso
1951
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident. ... view
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Tin Tan
1951
Cuban fantasy-comedy about a lost civilization where women are the dominant social group. Guest appearances by Mexican comedians TinTan y Marcelo. ... view
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1950
The Mexican comedy Simbad el Mareado stars the popular comic Tin-Tan. The story concerns the adventurer Sinbad who becomes sidetracked from his quest ... view
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Simbad
Original title: Tambien de dolor se canta
1950
The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family ... view
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Tin Tan
Original title: La marca del zorrillo
1950
In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns ou ... view
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Tin
Original title: El rey del barrio
1950
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor. ... view
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Tin-Tán
1949
A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes things worse. ... view
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1949
Tin-Tan and his carnal Marcelo take over Carmelita baby for a few hours, and suddenly, the three are hired by an employer of the tents, starting the f ... view
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Tin Tan
Original title: Calabacitas Tiernas (¡Ay qué bonitas piernas!)
1949
A man hired to impersonate a bankrupt business mogul who is currently on the run from creditors sets out organize a musical starring beauties from Bra ... view
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Tin-Tán
1948
An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwh ... view
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1947
If you survive the first half with his delicious absurdity, your reward is the second half, on the scenes when he teams up with his "carnal" Marcelo s ... view
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Tin Tan
1947
Tin-Tan disguises himself as a European Grande-Dame to insinuate himself into the lives of a rich family. ... view
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Original title: Hay muertos que no hacen ruido
1946
Tin-tan gets involved in what seem to be a murder at the local house of wax. ... view
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Tin Tan
1945
Actress Carol Adams retires from the theater when she becomes engaged to businessman Gregory Davis, but is increasingly frustrated by Greg's unwaverin ... view
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Tin Tan
Original title: El hijo desobediente
1945
A poor young man is mistaken for a millionaire when he travels to the city to fulfill his dream of being a singer. ... view
Character:
Germán Rico / Tin Tan
1944
This Musical-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, features American actress Janice Logan as the dutiful daughter who is about to wed a much older man an ... view
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