Germán Valdés

Acting

Germán Valdés

Born — Died

1915-09-20 — 1973-06-29

Place of birth

Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

66 titles

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.

Known for

Tanto Amor poster
2.0

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 recognized, everything in it is perfection, they maintain a quiet life. But from one moment to another everything starts to be chaos. The Lombard brothers will face each other, Alberto is the good brother, a man of honor, but his brother Bruno is full of envy and ambition. The trigger for everything is the love that Alberto and Mia have for each other, but who is Mia? She is a young woman who grew up in a humble family and when her father died, her family was received by the Lombards. There is a secret that many will try to protect at all costs that is why they will act against Mia and especially against her union with Alberto since it is a threat to their ambitions.

Tanto Amor

2015

Un día para vivir poster
9.1

No synopsis available yet.

Un día para vivir

2021

No artwork available
NR

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Drenaje Profundo

2010

The King of the Neighborhood poster
8.4

A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.

The King of the Neighborhood

1950

El gato sin botas poster
6.0

Target of ridicule from fellow military academy, the cowardly Augustin did not want to return to their village for fear of confronting his grandfather, a revolutionary colonel. In love with the movie star Laura, Agustin flee to the capital but encounters the dangerous Humberto, another in love with the actress. Thanks to his "nine lives", he attains overcome perilous adventures and, incidentally, overcome their fears.

El gato sin botas

1957

¡Paso a la juventud..! poster
5.4

Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate.

¡Paso a la juventud..!

1958

Film credits

2000s · 1 titles

1970s · 8 titles

1960s · 15 titles

Tin Tan y las modelos poster
6.6

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 couple of other business schemes with minimal success.

Tin Tan y las modelos

1960

Face of the Screaming Werewolf poster
4.2

A scientist experimenting with past lives finds a reincarnated Aztec who can lead him to lost treasure—and to a creature that should remain lost. (Composed of footage from two unrelated Mexican horror films, LA CASA DEL TERROR and LA MOMIA AZTECA, plus new American-made footage.)

Face of the Screaming Werewolf

1965

¡En peligro de muerte! poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

¡En peligro de muerte!

1962

El Violetero poster
6.2

Lorenzo Miguel is an Indian door to door flower seller in Xochimilco. One day he is requested by one of his customers to fix their garden and this becomes a recurring job. His new boss, a well educated woman sets to prove her younger sister wrong about their position in life by polishing the new gardener's education and manners.

El Violetero

1960

Pilotos de la muerte poster
5.8

A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.

Pilotos de la muerte

1962

Tin-Tán El Hombre Mono poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Tin-Tán El Hombre Mono

1963

La tijera de oro poster
6.4

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 with money from neighbors, gets entangled in a misunderstanding and ends up in jail but his friends are out of charge so much trouble.

La tijera de oro

1960

House of Terror poster
6.1

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 secretly draining blood from him while he dozes to use in experiments in raising the dead. These haven't worked so far, and the bodies have been waxened and placed on display in the museum to cover his crimes. His big chance seems to come, however, when he learns that the mummified body of a modern man has been found in an Egyptian sarcophagus. The professor and his two henchmen steal the body and take it back to his lab - where the experiment flops again.

House of Terror

1960

No artwork available
6.0

In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among other entanglements.

Una estrella y dos estrellados

1960

El duende y yo poster
5.8

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 confusion, the owners of the company believe that she is his wife. Inviting them to dinner at his house, Modesto tries to show his project to get a promotion without imagining that your boss really cares about is his supposed wife Diana.

El duende y yo

1961

Fuerte, audaz y valiente poster
5.8

Western comedy: two medicine-show guys vs. badhats.

Fuerte, audaz y valiente

1963

The Phantom of the Operetta poster
6.8

Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms.

The Phantom of the Operetta

1960

El ángel y yo poster
6.6

Ex-con breaks into a house and ends up bonding with a toddler instead of burgling the way he'd planned.

El ángel y yo

1966

Seis días para morir poster
6.7

Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.

Seis días para morir

1967

The Treasure of King Solomon poster
6.0

Tin Tan plays a Mexican-style Tarzan.

The Treasure of King Solomon

1962

1950s · 30 titles

The King of the Neighborhood poster
8.4

A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.

The King of the Neighborhood

1950

El gato sin botas poster
6.0

Target of ridicule from fellow military academy, the cowardly Augustin did not want to return to their village for fear of confronting his grandfather, a revolutionary colonel. In love with the movie star Laura, Agustin flee to the capital but encounters the dangerous Humberto, another in love with the actress. Thanks to his "nine lives", he attains overcome perilous adventures and, incidentally, overcome their fears.

El gato sin botas

1957

¡Paso a la juventud..! poster
5.4

Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate.

¡Paso a la juventud..!

1958

El cofre del pirata poster
6.3

Bankrupt millionaire discovers a treasure map belonging to a distant ancestor.

El cofre del pirata

1959

Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me! poster
6.3

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 scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.

Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!

1951

El que con niños se acuesta... poster
6.8

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, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage.

El que con niños se acuesta...

1959

El vividor poster
5.4

Con-artist cleans up his act to score points with a new girlfriend.

El vividor

1956

Los líos de Barba Azul poster
7.0

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 first. Helped by a friend, he tries to earn the money by marrying - and murdering - four rich women.

Los líos de Barba Azul

1955

La isla de las mujeres poster
6.7

Spoofy south-sea adventure, mostly about the hot babes.

La isla de las mujeres

1953

Me traes de un ala poster
6.4

To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.

Me traes de un ala

1953

Mi campeón poster
5.5

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 being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.

Mi campeón

1952

Chucho El Remendado poster
6.6

"Gentleman bandit" acts out ridiculous schemes to steal valuables from his society friends.

Chucho El Remendado

1952

Vagabundo y Millonario poster
5.9

Tin Tan stands in as the double of a kidnapped millionaire.

Vagabundo y Millonario

1959

3 Lessons of Love poster
6.0

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 him to episodes of debauchery and conquest. Married to the rigid Severa, he becomes a corrupt mayor. Only the moralistic Rosa will be able to free him from these strange influences to improve his life and that of the town.

3 Lessons of Love

1959

Trip to the Moon poster
6.0

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 them falls in love and that complicates things.

Trip to the Moon

1958

Yo quiero ser artista poster
6.4

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 without his knowledge.

Yo quiero ser artista

1958

Refifí entre las mujeres poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Refifí entre las mujeres

1958

The Adventures of Pito Pérez poster
5.9

After a long absence, a man returns to his village and recounts all his adventures with a touch of nostalgia.

The Adventures of Pito Pérez

1957

Locos Peligrosos poster
5.5

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 the modern equipment. Accept and so begin a new career in popular music, so despises his former employer, thus limiting the affair between his daughter and one of them.

Locos Peligrosos

1957

They also sing of pain poster
7.4

The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.

They also sing of pain

1950

Los tres mosqueteros y medio poster
7.3

Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.

Los tres mosqueteros y medio

1957

The Mark of the Skunk poster
7.2

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 out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.

The Mark of the Skunk

1950

Dios los cría poster
6.0

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 jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...

Dios los cría

1953

Las locuras de Tin Tan poster
6.2

Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.

Las locuras de Tin Tan

1952

The Count of Monte Cristo poster
6.6

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 gambling, have defrauded the bank with eight hundred thousand pesos, have agreed to coax "Chencho" and make it appear as responsible for the theft. In prison, "Chencho" knows Don Facundo Farias to whom he talks about his sorrows, Don Facundo happens to be the leader of the gang that stole twenty million pesos and is the only survivor who knows the place where the money is buried. After a fight, "Chencho" is put into a cell for defending Don Facundo, he in gratitude and before dying from pneumonia advises how to escape and where to find the money.later Inocencio In the style of Count of Monte Cristo flees giving a positive spin into his life. Pleasant moments alive with sparkling, funny and comical adventures of the Viscount of Montecristo.

The Count of Monte Cristo

1954

Reportaje poster
7.3

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

Reportaje

1953

Teatro del crimen poster
6.2

In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.

Teatro del crimen

1957

Lo que le pasó a Sansón poster
7.2

Comedic retelling of the events around the biblical character: Samson.

Lo que le pasó a Sansón

1955

Two Ghosts and a Girl poster
5.9

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.

Two Ghosts and a Girl

1959

La odalisca No. 13 poster
6.7

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.

La odalisca No. 13

1958

1940s · 6 titles

Soy Charro de Levita poster
6.7

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 funniest adventures you can imagine.

Soy Charro de Levita

1949

The Noiseless Dead poster
7.3

Tin-tan gets involved in what seem to be a murder at the local house of wax.

The Noiseless Dead

1946

Oh What Beautiful Legs! poster
6.3

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 Brazil, Mexico, and Spain in this Spanish-language comedy starring popular funnyman Tin Tan (Germán Valdés). Now, as the hapless imposter attempts to finance a musical without any money, he also discovers just how difficult it can be to juggle three beautiful starlets who all have eyes for their presumably wealthy producer. Another common English translation of the title of this film is Tender Pumpkins or Tender Little Pumpkins (although a direct translation is Baby Zucchini).

Oh What Beautiful Legs!

1949

Músico, poeta y loco poster
7.6

An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.

Músico, poeta y loco

1948

Song of Mexico poster
10.0

Actress Carol Adams retires from the theater when she becomes engaged to businessman Gregory Davis, but is increasingly frustrated by Greg's unwavering devotion to his business. Tired of being ignored, Carol leaves her engagement ring with Greg's secretary, Sarah Anderson, and flies to Mexico City to repair her broken heart and visit her friends, Anita and Arturo Martinez. On the plane, Carol meets Ramon Carranza, a handsome singer and movie star who is wildly popular in Mexico.

Song of Mexico

1945

¡No me defiendas, compadre! poster
6.3

A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes things worse.

¡No me defiendas, compadre!

1949

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