Germán Valdés
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: September 20, 1915
Day of Death: June 29, 1973 (58 years old)
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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.
