Prudencia Grifell
Acting • Born 1879-12-27 – Died 1970-06-07
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
69 credits
Over the Waves
Movie • 1950
Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
La sexta carrera
Movie • 1953
Why Was I Born a Woman?
Movie • 1970
Doña Rosa
Apartment house
Movie • 1951
Doña Leonor
El amor abrió los ojos
Movie • 1947
Soledad
Movie • 1947
Roberto's mother
Nosotros los rateros
Movie • 1949
Madre de Mercedes
Pepito and the Monster
Movie • 1957
Abuelita
Los nietos de Don Venancio
Movie • 1946
Tale of a Heart
Movie • 1951
Internado para señoritas
Movie • 1943
X Murderer
Movie • 1955
Señora Encinas
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
Movie • 1961
Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
Angel Face
Movie • 1956
Those Green Eyes
Movie • 1952
El monstruo en la sombra
Movie • 1955
The Third Word
Movie • 1956
Angelina
El genial Detective Peter Pérez
Movie • 1952
Cuando me vaya
Movie • 1954
La ladrona
Movie • 1954
Two Faces Have the Destiny
Movie • 1952
Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
El plagiario
Movie • 1955
Al Diablo Las Mujeres
Movie • 1955
Doña Juanita
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
Movie • 1955
Sra. Llopis
Una mujer en la calle
Movie • 1955
The Vivanco Ladies
Movie • 1959
Teresa Vivanco
Mi desconocida esposa
Movie • 1958
Abuela
Senda prohibida
Movie • 1961
Federico's Mother
Una sombra en mi destino
Movie • 1946
Pensión de artistas
Movie • 1956
Préstame tu cuerpo
Movie • 1958
Simplicia
El señor doctor
Movie • 1965
Señora Martínez
Póker de ases
Movie • 1952
The Shadow of the Tyrant
Movie • 1960
Dueña de burdel
Las infieles
Movie • 1953
Mamá de Constanzia
La hermana blanca
Movie • 1960
Madame Bernard
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
Movie • 1961
Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
School for Mothers-in-Law
Movie • 1958
Después de la tormenta
Movie • 1955
Mis abuelitas... no más!
Movie • 1961
El globo de Cantolla
Movie • 1944
The Force of Desire
Movie • 1955
Juana
La dama del alba
Movie • 1950
El hombre que me gusta
Movie • 1958
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
Movie • 1966
Horas de agonía
Movie • 1958
Ladronzuela
Movie • 1949
María Cristina
Movie • 1951
México nunca duerme
Movie • 1959
Mi adorado salvaje
Movie • 1952
El ruiseñor del barrio
Movie • 1952
Nuestras vidas
Movie • 1950
Little Red Riding Hood
Movie • 1959
Abuelita
Prisionera del pasado
Movie • 1954
Recién casados... no molestar
Movie • 1951
Mujeres que trabajan
Movie • 1953
Srita. Benavides
Sublime melodía
Movie • 1956
The Smile of the Virgin
Movie • 1958
Lodo y armiño
Movie • 1951
Inmaculada
Movie • 1950
Doña Rosa
Entre tu amor y el cielo
Movie • 1950
Doña Francisca
The Devil's Money
Movie • 1953
Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel
La culpable
Movie • 1946
María
Esposa o amante
Movie • 1950
Raffles
Movie • 1958
Doña Constancia
Siete mujeres
Movie • 1953
Melodías de amor
Movie • 1955
Tía Amelia
Un minuto de bondad
Movie • 1954
Tía Margarita
Adultery
Movie • 1945
Doña Lupita