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