- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- December 27, 1879
- Place of Birth
- Lugo, Galicia, Spain
- Died
- June 7, 1970
Prudencia Grifell
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
movieWhy Was I Born a Woman?
1970 · Doña Rosa
movieThe Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
1966
movieEl señor doctor
1965 · Señora Martínez
movieCaperucita y sus tres amigos
1961 · Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
movieSenda prohibida
1961 · Federico's Mother
movieMis abuelitas... no más!
1961
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
1961 · Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
movieLa hermana blanca
1960 · Madame Bernard
movieThe Shadow of the Tyrant
1960 · Dueña de burdel
movieLittle Red Riding Hood
1959 · Abuelita
movieThe Vivanco Ladies
1959 · Teresa Vivanco
movieMéxico nunca duerme
1959
movieThe Smile of the Virgin
1958
movieSchool for Mothers-in-Law
1958
movieThe Man That Pleases Me
1958
moviePréstame tu cuerpo
1958 · Simplicia
movieMi desconocida esposa
1958 · Abuela
movieHoras de agonía
1958
movieRaffles
1958 · Doña Constancia
Pepito and the Monster
1957 · Abuelita
movieSublime melodía
1956
moviePensión de artistas
1956
movieThe Third Word
1956 · Angelina
movieAngel Face
1956
movieMelodías de amor
1955 · Tía Amelia
movieThe Force of Desire
1955 · Juana
movieThe Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
1955 · Sra. Llopis
movieEl plagiario
1955
movieX Murderer
1955 · Señora Encinas
movieEl monstruo en la sombra
1955
movieAl Diablo Las Mujeres
1955 · Doña Juanita
movieUna mujer en la calle
1955 · Tía Nena (María de Jesús)
movieDespués de la tormenta
1955
moviePrisionera del pasado
1954
movieCuando me vaya
1954 · Doña Generosa
movieLa ladrona
1954
movieUn minuto de bondad
1954 · Tía Margarita
movieThe Devil's Money
1953 · Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel
movieLas infieles
1953 · Mamá de Constanzia
movieMujeres que trabajan
1953 · Srita. Benavides
movieLa sexta carrera
1953
movieSiete mujeres
1953
moviePóker de ases
1952
movieEl genial Detective Peter Pérez
1952
movieEl ruiseñor del barrio
1952
movieThose Green Eyes
1952
movieTwo Faces Have the Destiny
1952 · Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
movieMi adorado salvaje
1952
movieLodo y Armiño
1951
movieMaría Cristina
1951
movieRecién casados... no molestar
1951
movieApartment house
1951 · Doña Leonor
movieTale of a Heart
1951
movieEntre tu amor y el cielo
1950 · Doña Francisca
movieInmaculada
1950 · Doña Rosa
movieOver the Waves
1950 · Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
movieEsposa o amante
1950
movieNuestras vidas
1950
movieLa dama del alba
1950
movieLadronzuela
1949
movieNosotros los rateros
1949 · Madre de Mercedes
movieSoledad
1947 · Roberto's mother
movieEl amor abrió los ojos
1947
movieLos nietos de Don Venancio
1946
movieUna sombra en mi destino
1946
movieLa culpable
1946 · María
movieAdultery
1945 · Doña Lupita
movieEl globo de Cantolla
1944
movieInternado para señoritas
1943