Personal details
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Born
20 9월 1915
Died
29 6월 1973
Place of birth
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Also known as
Tin Tan · Germán Genaro Cipriano Gómez Valdés y Castillo · German Valdes Tin-Tan · Topillo
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.
