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