Prudencia Grifell
Born: 1879-12-27 in Lugo, Galicia, Spain
Died: 1970-06-07
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
1970
- Why Was I Born a Woman? as Doña Rosa
1965
- El señor doctor as Señora Martínez
1961
- Senda prohibida as Federico's Mother
- Caperucita y sus tres amigos as Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
- Mis abuelitas... no más!
- The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies as Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
1960
- The Shadow of the Tyrant as Dueña de burdel
- La hermana blanca as Madame Bernard
1959
- Little Red Riding Hood as Abuelita
- México nunca duerme
- The Vivanco Ladies as Teresa Vivanco
1958
- The Man That Pleases Me
- Mi desconocida esposa as Abuela
- Raffles as Doña Constancia
- The Smile of the Virgin
- School for Mothers-in-Law
- Préstame tu cuerpo as Simplicia
- Horas de agonía
1957
- Pepito and the Monster as Abuelita
1956
- Angel Face
- Sublime melodía
- Pensión de artistas
- The Third Word as Angelina
1955
- El monstruo en la sombra
- Melodías de amor as Tía Amelia
- El plagiario
- The Force of Desire as Juana
- Después de la tormenta
- Una mujer en la calle as Tía Nena (María de Jesús)
- X Murderer as Señora Encinas
- Al Diablo Las Mujeres as Doña Juanita
- The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman as Sra. Llopis
1954
- Prisionera del pasado
- La ladrona
- Un minuto de bondad as Tía Margarita
- Cuando me vaya as Doña Generosa
1953
- The Devil's Money as Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel
- Siete mujeres
- Mujeres que trabajan as Srita. Benavides
- Las infieles as Mamá de Constanzia
- La sexta carrera
1952
- Póker de ases
- Two Faces Have the Destiny as Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
- Those Green Eyes
- El genial Detective Peter Pérez
- Mi adorado salvaje
- El ruiseñor del barrio
1951
1950
- Over the Waves as Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
- Inmaculada as Doña Rosa
- Entre tu amor y el cielo as Doña Francisca
- Esposa o amante
- La dama del alba
- Nuestras vidas
1949
- Ladronzuela
- Nosotros los rateros as Madre de Mercedes
1947
- Soledad as Roberto's mother
- El amor abrió los ojos
1946
1945
- Adultery as Doña Lupita