Prudencia Grifell
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Prudencia Grifell (December 27, 1879 – June 7, 1970), born Prudencia Grifell Masipon, was a prolific actress of the Golden Era of the Cinema of Mexico. Grifell was born to Spanish stage actors and started her acting career herself at the age of ten in theater in Venezuela and touring Spain and Latin America. By the 1900s she had become very popular and moved to Mexico to continue her career in stage, after the Spanish Civil War she decided not to go back to that country but instead to relocate in Mexico permanently after 1940. Three years later, already at the age of 61, she appeared in her first film Internado para señoritas ("Girls Boarding School") with the stars Mapy Cortés, Emilio Tuero and Katy Jurado. Just as Sara García, her co-star as the Vivanco sisters in two films, she mostly played feisty but lovable granny roles.
Known for
Credits
El plagiario (1955)
Actor
La ladrona (1954)
Actor
Pensión de artistas (1956)
Actor
Little Red Riding Hood (1959)
as Abuelita
Melodías de amor (1955)
as Tía Amelia
Angel Face (1956)
Actor
Lodo y Armiño (1951)
Actor
Mi desconocida esposa (1958)
as Abuela
El señor doctor (1965)
as Señora Martínez
Apartment house (1951)
as Doña Leonor
Prisionera del pasado (1954)
Actor
Sublime melodía (1956)
Actor
Esposa o amante (1950)
Actor
Those Green Eyes (1952)
Actor
Póker de ases (1952)
Actor
Recién casados... no molestar (1951)
Actor
The Shadow of the Tyrant (1960)
as Dueña de burdel
Why Was I Born a Woman? (1970)
as Doña Rosa
Mi adorado salvaje (1952)
Actor
Internado para señoritas (1943)
Actor
Préstame tu cuerpo (1958)
as Simplicia
Two Faces Have the Destiny (1952)
as Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
Una mujer en la calle (1955)
as Tía Nena (María de Jesús)
School for Mothers-in-Law (1958)
Actor
Al Diablo Las Mujeres (1955)
as Doña Juanita
Las infieles (1953)
as Mamá de Constanzia
Después de la tormenta (1955)
Actor
Over the Waves (1950)
as Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
The Force of Desire (1955)
as Juana
Senda prohibida (1961)
as Federico's Mother
El genial Detective Peter Pérez (1952)
Actor
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies (1961)
as Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman (1955)
as Sra. Llopis
The Devil's Money (1953)
as Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel
Entre tu amor y el cielo (1950)
as Doña Francisca
Nosotros los rateros (1949)
as Madre de Mercedes
El ruiseñor del barrio (1952)
Actor
The Vivanco Ladies (1959)
as Teresa Vivanco
El amor abrió los ojos (1947)
Actor
Mujeres que trabajan (1953)
as Srita. Benavides
The Man That Pleases Me (1958)
Actor
Horas de agonía (1958)
Actor
Pepito and the Monster (1957)
as Abuelita
Caperucita y sus tres amigos (1961)
as Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
La hermana blanca (1960)
as Madame Bernard
Soledad (1947)
as Roberto's mother
The Smile of the Virgin (1958)
Actor
El globo de Cantolla (1944)
Actor
Adultery (1945)
as Doña Lupita
México nunca duerme (1959)
Actor
X Murderer (1955)
as Señora Encinas
The Third Word (1956)
as Angelina
María Cristina (1951)
Actor
Cuando me vaya (1954)
as Doña Generosa
Inmaculada (1950)
as Doña Rosa
La culpable (1946)
as María
Raffles (1958)
as Doña Constancia
Una sombra en mi destino (1946)
Actor
La dama del alba (1950)
Actor
La sexta carrera (1953)
Actor
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris (1966)
Actor
Los nietos de Don Venancio (1946)
Actor
El monstruo en la sombra (1955)
Actor
Tale of a Heart (1951)
Actor
Ladronzuela (1949)
Actor
Siete mujeres (1953)
Actor
Nuestras vidas (1950)
Actor
Mis abuelitas... no más! (1961)
Actor
Un minuto de bondad (1954)
as Tía Margarita