20-09-1915
Birthday
Virgo
Zodiac Sign
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Genres
100
Total Films
Germán Genaro Cipriano Gómez Valdés y Castillo, German Valdes Tin-Tan
Also known as (male)
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Place of Birth
20-09-1915
Birthday
Virgo
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
100
Total Films
Tin Tan, German Valdes Tin-Tan
Also Known As (male)
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Place of Birth
actor
100 Works
producer
2 Works
director
3 Works
writer
0 Works
other
0 Works
Tin Tan
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawing attention to the pachuco movement through his character Tin Tan, laying the groundwork for a new form of binational and mass linguistic expression: Spanglish. He soon became a leading figure in theater and film on the American Continent. Singled out by critics as a destroyer of the language, he quickly won the approval of the public. His ability to improvise revolutionized the film industry. His talent as an actor, singer, dancer and comedian contributed to the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. From El Hijo Desobediente to Capitán Mantarraya, from Cuidad Juárez to Havana, from mambo to rock, the legacy of Tin Tan makes him one of the great icons of Mexico today. This film tells his story as it has never been told before.Year:
2010
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-actors in the history of Mexican Cinema. He began his film career during the early years of what became the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. Throughout the majority of his movies he plays the character of a pachuco; the Chicano/Mexicano in zoot suit, throwing out the tirili phrases and words, and jammin the jitty-bug. With the style and the slang down to a tee, he was picked up in Cd. Juarez Chihuahua by an acting troupe. Touring extensively through-out Mexico with the troupe landed him in Mexico City with film contracts. It was in those films that Tin Tan exposed the image of the pachuco, which Mexican Youth adopted. From the desert border-towns of Juarez y El Paso the style took off in various parts of the country, most notably in Mexico CityYear:
2005
Night of Death
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, despite the detective understands that the clues point to his friend Blue Demon. This is actually an evil plan hatched by the Count and a fighter called ' The Cossack ', taking revenge on Blue. In both the real Blue Demon campaign starts with his secretary and a detective to unravel the mystery.Year:
1975
La mafia amarilla
Blue Demon must stop an evil chinese gang and their reign of terror.Year:
1975
Acapulco 12-22
Tourist industry dudes moonlight as karate detectives, solving crimes committed among the mod young jet-setters.Year:
1975
La disputa
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 divorce. Meanwhile, subplots.Year:
1974
Las tarántulas
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 lying off the coast.Year:
1973
Los Cacos
A group of Soccer-loving friends devise a plan to make easy money.Year:
1972
The Incredible Professor Zovek
Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters.Year:
1972
Chanoc vs. the Tiger and the Vampire
Chanoc must defeat an evil vampire known as Count Frankenhausen.Year:
1972
Caín, Abel... y el Otro
Three early twenties guys in Acapulco competing for women... they end up marooned on a desert island together...Year:
1971
El Quelite
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 heroic deeds.Year:
1970
Chanoc en las garras de las fieras
Comic-book adaptation: Tarzan-type in the Mexican outback.Year:
1970
El capitán Mantarraya
Elderly sea captain charms and delights an audience of children, telling them stories about the high adventures he experienced when he was young.Year:
1970
Gregorio y su angel
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 life.Year:
1970
Seis días para morir
Public health thriller: rabies in Mexico City.Year:
1967
Detectives o ladrones..?
Two bumbling bozos with detective licenses get hoodwinked by a pair of jewel-thieves.Year:
1967
El ángel y yo
Ex-con breaks into a house and ends up bonding with a toddler instead of burgling the way he'd planned.Year:
1966
Loco por ellas
Starring Lorena Velazquez, German Valdes, Marcelo ChavezYear:
1966
Especialista en chamacas
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 decides to accompany her throw artistic caravan, where replaced a singer and quarrels by jealousy with Javier, a womanizer trying to conquer Diana.Year:
1965
The Mocking Ghosts
Two fake fortune-tellers at a carnival accidentally conjure up some real ghosts.Year:
1965
Tintansón Cruzoe
Tin Tan is marooned on an island full of colorful natives.Year:
1965
Puerto Rico en carnaval
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 carnival. Knowing the problems that go hand-in-hand with the carnival, the airport director appoints a team to deal with a threat from an anonymous letter.Year:
1965
Face of the Screaming Werewolf
Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena has discovered that Ann Taylor is a reincarnated Aztec woman. Via her recovered memories, she is able to lead Redding and his associates to a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan, where they hope to find the lost treasure of the Aztecs. Instead, they find two mummified bodies - one of a modern man, quite dead, and the other of an ancient Aztec, quite alive. They are able to return safely to Pasadena with both finds, but a rival professor, Janney, kills Redding and steals the body of the modern man-mummy. This he subjects to a resurrection experiment, which works - only the mummy proves to be a werewolf. Two supernatural menaces roam the city that night. This film is composed of footage from two unrelated Mexican horror movies, LA CASA DEL TERROR and LA MOMIA AZTECA, plus new footage shot in the U.S. by Jerry Warren.Year:
1964
Fuerte, audaz y valiente
Western comedy: two medicine-show guys vs. badhats.Year:
1963
Tin-Tán El Hombre Mono
Year:
1963
¡En peligro de muerte!
Year:
1962
Pilotos de la muerte
A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.Year:
1962
El Tesoro del Rey Salomon
Year:
1962
Viva Chihuahua
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 pretending to be the same person, until their cover stories get too snarled to continue.Year:
1961
Suicídate mi amor
Tin Tan is an eccentric wealthy man who comes across a beautiful woman who doesn't want to live anymore.Year:
1961
Madness from Terror
Monster film and mad doctor spoof.Year:
1961
El duende y yo
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.Year:
1961
The Phantom of the Operetta
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 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume.Year:
1960
El Violetero
Year:
1960
Una estrella y dos estrellados
In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among other entanglements.Year:
1960
Tin Tan y las modelos
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.Year:
1960
House of Terror
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.Year:
1960
La tijera de oro
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.Year:
1960
Rebelde Sin Casa
Tin Tan interfered in a bank robbery, then got arrested when the perp.s escaped. Crooks and police are both after him...Year:
1960
Variedades de medianoche
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 studio executives...Year:
1960
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's in danger from bank robbers.Year:
1959
Escuela de verano
Aging lecher struggles to launch an institution of higher learning for young ladies.Year:
1959
El que con niños se acuesta...
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.Year:
1959
Vivir del cuento
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 hiatus.Year:
1959
Ferias de México
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, complications arise.Year:
1959
El cofre del pirata
Bankrupt millionaire discovers a treasure map belonging to a distant ancestor.Year:
1959
Vagabundo y Millonario
Tin Tan stands in as the double of a kidnapped millionaire.Year:
1959
3 Lessons of Love
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.Year:
1959
El pandillero
Gangsters kidnap the writer of a crime-drama radio program to plot their heists for them.Year:
1959
¡Paso a la juventud..!
Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate.Year:
1958
School for Mothers-in-Law
Dizzy society matron plucks a hobo out of the gutter to rehabilitate him.Year:
1958
La odalisca No. 13
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.Year:
1958
Las mil y una noches
Professional story-teller falls afoul of a sultan, but saves himself from execution using the tricks of his trade.Year:
1958
Music of Always
Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.Year:
1958
Yo quiero ser artista
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.Year:
1958
Refifí entre las mujeres
Year:
1958
Trip to the Moon
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.Year:
1958
Los tres mosqueteros y medio
Spoofy adaptation of The Three Musketeers, follows the original very closely.Year:
1957
Locos Peligrosos
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.Year:
1957
El gato sin botas
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.Year:
1957
The Champion Cyclist
Cleto, a poor newspaper boy, dreamed of becoming a cyclist and inventor. His latest invention is delivering newspapers by rockets. When he finds the owner of the newspaper, dismisses him. But Cleto do not give up and shows Don Macario his latest invention: " The telemirófono ", a device that allows you to see the person talking on the phone...Year:
1957
The Adventures of Pito Pérez
After a long absence, a man returns to his village and recounts all his adventures with a touch of nostalgia.Year:
1957
Teatro del crimen
In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.Year:
1957
El vividor
Con-artist cleans up his act to score points with a new girlfriend.Year:
1956
El sultán descalzo
Jack-of-all-trades interferes in his neighbors' lives, then has to set everything straight.Year:
1956
Lo que le pasó a Sansón
Comedic retelling of the events around the biblical character: Samson.Year:
1955
The Doctor of the Crazy Women
Year:
1955
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 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.Year:
1955
El hombre inquieto
Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.Year:
1954
The Count of Monte Cristo
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.Year:
1954
Reportaje
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.Year:
1953
El mariachi desconocido
This film is considered one of Tin Tan's funniest comedies. This time, the charismatic comedian incarnates a mariachi musician that lives the most entertaining an extraordinary adventures while traveling from Mexico to the paradisaic island of Cuba. An example of the excellent cinematographic comedy that only Tin Tan can achieve.Year:
1953
Dios los cría
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...Year:
1953
El vagabundo
Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.Year:
1953
La isla de las mujeres
Spoofy south-sea adventure, mostly about the hot babes.Year:
1953
Me traes de un ala
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.Year:
1953
The Sleeping Beauty
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 wonder to behold, and discovers his ancient love and romantic rival are seemingly still alive as well.Year:
1952
Mi campeón
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.Year:
1952
Chucho El Remendado
"Gentleman bandit" acts out ridiculous schemes to steal valuables from his society friends.Year:
1952
El Ceniciento
Valentin reaches Mexico City to stay with his countrymen Marcelo and Sirenia, parents of thirteen children. Marcelo gladly serves Valentin until he realizes that he is poor and throws him out of the house. By a suggestion Sirenia, Marcelo employs Valentin as a servant and exploits it mercilessly. But with the help of Andres, the fate of Valentin takes an unexpected turn.Year:
1952
Las locuras de Tin Tan
Tin-Tan wants to builds an ice cream machine.Year:
1952
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 changes her mind.Year:
1951
Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
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.Year:
1951
The Troublemaker
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.Year:
1951
Cuando Las Mujeres Mandan
Cuban fantasy-comedy about a lost civilization where women are the dominant social group. Guest appearances by Mexican comedians TinTan y Marcelo.Year:
1951
Simbad el Mareado
The Mexican comedy Simbad el Mareado stars the popular comic Tin-Tan. The story concerns the adventurer Sinbad who becomes sidetracked from his quest for riches and love when he suffers from a psychotic belief that his best friend is a commoner who may be in line to receive a financial windfall.Year:
1950
They also sing of pain
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.Year:
1950
The Mark of the Skunk
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.Year:
1950
The King of the Neighborhood
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.Year:
1950
¡No me defiendas, compadre!
A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes things worse.Year:
1949
Soy Charro de Levita
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.Year:
1949
What a Beautiful Legs!
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. 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.Year:
1949
Músico, poeta y loco
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.Year:
1948
El niño perdido
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 singing American, Cuban and Argentinian music, but ending with a very Mexican serenade. If you ever saw Jorge Negrete singing in a movie you'll laugh to tears when Tin Tan sings. And with the lighting effects, you can see actual flashes of Jorge Negrete until you hear him singing.Year:
1947
Con la música por dentro
Tin-Tan disguises himself as a European Grande-Dame to insinuate himself into the lives of a rich family.Year:
1947
Song of Mexico
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.Year:
1945
The Naughty Son
A poor young man is mistaken for a millionaire when he travels to the city to fulfill his dream of being a singer.Year:
1945
Hotel de verano
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 and widower as part of an arranged marriage orchestrated by her Father. Plans quickly change, however, once she meets a handsome singer and rising radio star, (played by actor Jose Pulido), who soon sweeps her off her feet-much to the dismay of her dear old Dad. Catchy musical numbers and a charismatic cast add to the charm of this war-time movie release.Year:
1944
El que la traga la paga
Year:
1943
