Manuel Valdés
Acting
Biography
Fernando Manuel Alonso Gómez de Valdés y Castillo (21 January 1931 – 28 August 2020), better known as Manuel "El Loco" Valdés, was a Mexican actor and comedian. He was member of the Valdés family; brother of Ramón Valdés, who portrayed "Don Ramón" on the sitcom El Chavo, and Germán Valdés (a.k.a. "Tin Tan"). He was also the father of singers Cristian Castro and Marcos Valdés.
Born: January 29, 1931
Place of Birth: Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Known For
The King of the Neighborhood
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
The Legend of the Nahuala
Leo San Juan, an insecure child of nine years old, lives eternally frightened by horror stories that Nando tells his older brother. Within these stories it is 'The Legend of Nahuala', according to which, an old abandoned Casona is possessed by the spirit of an evil witch known as the Nahuala.
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 City
Little Red Riding Hood
The classic story of the Red Riding Hood spiced up by a couple of funny characters like the dog Duke, companion to the girl in her adventures, and the stinky Skunk, henchman to the Wolf.
Las Lunas del Auditorio
La pulquería
The Devil offers a man to help him if he can show him to love.
Chava Flores: Como lo Querías Ver
Detectives o ladrones..?
Two bumbling bozos with detective licenses get hoodwinked by a pair of jewel-thieves.
Music of Always
Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.
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.
Filmography
as Braulio
as Lorenzo Villavicencio (voice)
as Self
as Don Próculo
as Don Prudencio
as Médico Brujo
as Benjamín
as Leocadio
as Francois de Lavalier
as Agapito
as Doctor Lucas
as The Once-Wicked Wolf
as (uncredited)
as Manuel López
as El Lobo Feroz
as Danton
as Puppy Lane
as Tranquilino
as (uncredited)
as Cliente de Tienda (uncredited)
as Bailarín (uncredited)
as Man in Canteen (uncredited)
as Man in Billard Room (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Manuel "El Loco" Valdés