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 | Mi desconocida esposa | Abuela | 1958-01-22 |
Movie | Raffles | Doña Constancia | 1958-01-01 |
Movie | School for Mothers-in-Law | 1958-12-01 | |
Movie | Préstame tu cuerpo | Simplicia | 1958-04-01 |
Movie | The Smile of the Virgin | 1958-12-04 | |
Movie | El hombre que me gusta | 1958-11-13 | |
Movie | Pepito and the Monster | Abuelita | 1957-09-30 |
Movie | The Third Word | Angelina | 1956-07-03 |
Movie | Angel Face | 1956-03-01 | |
Movie | Pensión de artistas | 1956-08-24 | |
Movie | Sublime melodía | 1956-11-01 | |
Movie | The Monster of the Shadow | 1955-03-10 | |
Movie | To Hell with Women | 1955-02-17 | |
Movie | Una mujer en la calle | 1955-02-03 | |
Movie | X Murderer | Señora Encinas | 1955-03-18 |
Movie | Después de la tormenta | 1955-01-21 | |
Movie | El plagiario | 1955-04-28 | |
Movie | The Force of Desire | Juana | 1955-07-22 |
Movie | Melodías de amor | Tía Amelia | 1955-11-16 |
Movie | The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman | Sra. Llopis | 1955-05-27 |
Movie | La ladrona | 1954-03-18 | |
Movie | Cuando me vaya | 1954-06-04 | |
Movie | Prisionera del pasado | 1954-10-28 | |
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 ruiseñor del barrio | 1952-08-15 | |
Movie | Póker de ases | 1952-12-25 | |
Movie | El genial Detective Peter Pérez | 1952-09-03 | |
Movie | Apartment house | 1951-02-08 | |
Movie | Historia de un corazón | 1951-01-01 | |
Movie | María Cristina | 1951-11-15 | |
Movie | Lodo y armiño | 1951-11-30 | |
Movie | Recién casados... no molestar | 1951-08-09 | |
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 |