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 señor doctor (1965)
as Señora Martínez
El plagiario (1955)
Actor
Why Was I Born a Woman? (1970)
as Doña Rosa
The Shadow of the Tyrant (1960)
as Dueña de burdel
Después de la tormenta (1955)
Actor
Little Red Riding Hood (1959)
as Abuelita
Una mujer en la calle (1955)
as Tía Nena (María de Jesús)
Angel Face (1956)
Actor
La dama del alba (1950)
Actor
Entre tu amor y el cielo (1950)
as Doña Francisca
La ladrona (1954)
Actor
The Devil's Money (1953)
as Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel
El monstruo en la sombra (1955)
Actor
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman (1955)
as Sra. Llopis
The Man That Pleases Me (1958)
Actor
Cuando me vaya (1954)
as Doña Generosa
Al diablo las mujeres (1955)
as Doña Juanita
Prisionera del pasado (1954)
Actor
Pepito and the Monster (1957)
as Abuelita
The Force of Desire (1955)
as Juana
The Smile of the Virgin (1958)
Actor
Tale of a Heart (1951)
Actor
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris (1966)
Actor
Un minuto de bondad (1954)
as Tía Margarita
Mis abuelitas... no más! (1961)
Actor
Recién casados... no molestar (1951)
Actor
Mi desconocida esposa (1958)
as Abuela
El genial Detective Peter Pérez (1952)
Actor
Apartment house (1951)
as Doña Leonor
Two Faces Have the Destiny (1952)
as Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
Sublime melodía (1956)
Actor
Esposa o amante (1950)
Actor
Póker de ases (1952)
Actor
El ruiseñor del barrio (1952)
Actor
Los nietos de Don Venancio (1946)
Actor
El globo de Cantolla (1944)
Actor
Préstame tu cuerpo (1958)
as Simplicia
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies (1961)
as Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
Las infieles (1953)
as Mamá de Constanzia
Caperucita y sus tres amigos (1961)
as Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
El amor abrió los ojos (1947)
Actor
Senda prohibida (1961)
as Federico's Mother
Those Green Eyes (1952)
Actor
Pensión de artistas (1956)
Actor
Una sombra en mi destino (1946)
Actor
The Third Word (1956)
as Angelina
Soledad (1947)
as Roberto's mother
Over the Waves (1950)
as Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
Nosotros los rateros (1949)
as Madre de Mercedes
Mi adorado salvaje (1952)
Actor
Melodías de amor (1955)
as Tía Amelia
Horas de agonía (1958)
Actor
Mujeres que trabajan (1953)
as Srita. Benavides
Internado para señoritas (1943)
Actor
Lodo y Armiño (1951)
Actor
Nuestras vidas (1950)
Actor
School for Mothers-in-Law (1958)
Actor
Inmaculada (1950)
as Doña Rosa
Siete mujeres (1953)
Actor
The Vivanco Ladies (1959)
as Teresa Vivanco
X Murderer (1955)
as Señora Encinas
Adultery (1945)
as Doña Lupita
La hermana blanca (1960)
as Madame Bernard
La sexta carrera (1953)
Actor
Ladronzuela (1949)
Actor
México nunca duerme (1959)
Actor
María Cristina (1951)
Actor
Raffles (1958)
as Doña Constancia
La culpable (1946)
as María