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