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