Prudencia Grifell

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.

Known For

El señor doctor

Little Red Riding Hood

Sublime melodía

Caperucita y sus tres amigos

Pensión de artistas

Prisionera del pasado

The Shadow of the Tyrant

Al Diablo Las Mujeres

All Movies (69)

• Why Was I Born a Woman?1970 · as Doña Rosa
• The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris1966
• El señor doctor1965 · as Señora Martínez
• Caperucita y sus tres amigos1961 · as Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
• Senda prohibida1961 · as Federico's Mother
• Mis abuelitas... no más!1961
• The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies1961 · as Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
• La hermana blanca1960 · as Madame Bernard
• The Shadow of the Tyrant1960 · as Dueña de burdel
• Little Red Riding Hood1959 · as Abuelita
• The Vivanco Ladies1959 · as Teresa Vivanco
• México nunca duerme1959
• The Smile of the Virgin1958
• School for Mothers-in-Law1958
• The Man That Pleases Me1958
• Préstame tu cuerpo1958 · as Simplicia
• Mi desconocida esposa1958 · as Abuela
• Horas de agonía1958
• Raffles1958 · as Doña Constancia
• Pepito and the Monster1957 · as Abuelita
• Sublime melodía1956
• Pensión de artistas1956
• The Third Word1956 · as Angelina
• Angel Face1956
• Melodías de amor1955 · as Tía Amelia
• The Force of Desire1955 · as Juana
• The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman1955 · as Sra. Llopis
• El plagiario1955
• X Murderer1955 · as Señora Encinas
• El monstruo en la sombra1955
• Al Diablo Las Mujeres1955 · as Doña Juanita
• Una mujer en la calle1955
• Después de la tormenta1955
• Prisionera del pasado1954
• Cuando me vaya1954
• La ladrona1954
• Un minuto de bondad1954 · as Tía Margarita
• The Devil's Money1953 · as Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel
• Las infieles1953 · as Mamá de Constanzia
• Mujeres que trabajan1953 · as Srita. Benavides
• La sexta carrera1953
• Siete mujeres1953
• Póker de ases1952
• El genial Detective Peter Pérez1952
• El ruiseñor del barrio1952
• Those Green Eyes1952
• Two Faces Have the Destiny1952 · as Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
• Mi adorado salvaje1952
• Lodo y Armiño1951
• María Cristina1951
• Recién casados... no molestar1951
• Apartment house1951 · as Doña Leonor
• Tale of a Heart1951
• Entre tu amor y el cielo1950 · as Doña Francisca
• Inmaculada1950 · as Doña Rosa
• Over the Waves1950 · as Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
• Esposa o amante1950
• Nuestras vidas1950
• La dama del alba1950
• Ladronzuela1949
• Nosotros los rateros1949 · as Madre de Mercedes
• Soledad1947 · as Roberto's mother
• El amor abrió los ojos1947
• Los nietos de Don Venancio1946
• Una sombra en mi destino1946
• La culpable1946 · as María
• Adultery1945 · as Doña Lupita
• El globo de Cantolla1944
• Internado para señoritas1943