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