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.
Movie | Why Was I Born a Woman? | Doña Rosa | 1970-08-20 |
Movie | The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris | 1966-01-13 | |
Movie | El señor doctor | Señora Martínez | 1965-10-07 |
Movie | The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies | Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega | 1961-01-18 |
Movie | Mis abuelitas... no más! | 1961-03-30 | |
Movie | Caperucita y sus tres amigos | Red Riding Hood's Grandmother | 1961-04-20 |
Movie | Senda prohibida | Federico's Mother | 1961-04-06 |
Movie | La hermana blanca | 1960-07-19 | |
Movie | The Shadow of the Tyrant | Dueña de burdel | 1960-08-22 |
Movie | Little Red Riding Hood | Abuelita | 1959-05-05 |
Movie | México nunca duerme | 1959-03-26 | |
Movie | The Vivanco Ladies | Teresa Vivanco | 1959-04-09 |
Movie | Horas de agonía | 1958-01-08 | |
Movie | Préstame tu cuerpo | Simplicia | 1958-04-01 |
Movie | Raffles | Doña Constancia | 1958-01-01 |
Movie | Mi desconocida esposa | Abuela | 1958-01-22 |
Movie | The Smile of the Virgin | 1958-12-04 | |
Movie | School for Mothers-in-Law | 1958-12-01 | |
Movie | El hombre que me gusta | 1958-11-13 | |
Movie | Pepito and the Monster | Abuelita | 1957-09-30 |
Movie | Angel Face | 1956-03-01 | |
Movie | The Third Word | Angelina | 1956-07-03 |
Movie | Pensión de artistas | 1956-08-24 | |
Movie | Sublime melodía | 1956-11-01 | |
Movie | To Hell with Women | 1955-02-17 | |
Movie | Una mujer en la calle | 1955-02-03 | |
Movie | Después de la tormenta | 1955-01-21 | |
Movie | The Monster of the Shadow | 1955-03-10 | |
Movie | The Force of Desire | Juana | 1955-07-22 |
Movie | The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman | Sra. Llopis | 1955-05-27 |
Movie | El plagiario | 1955-04-28 | |
Movie | X Murderer | Señora Encinas | 1955-03-18 |
Movie | La ladrona | 1954-03-18 | |
Movie | Prisionera del pasado | 1954-10-28 | |
Movie | Cuando me vaya | 1954-06-04 | |
Movie | Siete mujeres | 1953-01-01 | |
Movie | Mujeres que trabajan | Srita. Benavides | 1953-04-22 |
Movie | Las infieles | 1953-07-09 | |
Movie | The Devil's Money | Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel | 1953-09-11 |
Movie | Two Faces Have the Destiny | Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita | 1952-03-21 |
Movie | Mi adorado salvaje | 1952-03-21 | |
Movie | Those Green Eyes | 1952-04-22 | |
Movie | El genial Detective Peter Pérez | 1952-09-03 | |
Movie | Póker de ases | 1952-12-25 | |
Movie | El ruiseñor del barrio | 1952-08-15 | |
Movie | Apartment house | 1951-02-08 | |
Movie | Recién casados... no molestar | 1951-08-09 | |
Movie | Historia de un corazón | 1951-01-01 | |
Movie | Lodo y armiño | 1951-11-30 | |
Movie | María Cristina | 1951-11-15 | |
Movie | Nuestras vidas | 1950-05-24 | |
Movie | La dama del alba | 1950-02-25 | |
Movie | Esposa o amante | 1950-06-21 | |
Movie | Over the Waves | Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro | 1950-09-13 |
Movie | Entre tu amor y el cielo | Doña Francisca | 1950-11-30 |
Movie | Inmaculada | Doña Rosa | 1950-09-15 |
Movie | Nosotros los rateros | Madre de Mercedes | 1949-09-07 |
Movie | Ladronzuela | 1949-12-28 | |
Movie | Soledad | Roberto's mother | 1947-11-28 |
Movie | Una sombra en mi destino | 1946-01-01 | |
Movie | La culpable | María | 1946-01-01 |
Movie | Los nietos de Don Venancio | 1946-06-13 | |
Movie | Adulterio | 1945-03-01 | |
Movie | El globo de Cantolla | 1944-07-07 | |
Movie | Internado para señoritas | 1943-11-11 |