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Prudencia Grifell
Actor
Born December 27, 1879Died June 7, 1970 (90 years)
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.
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
Filmography
| 1970 | Why Was I Born a Woman? · as Doña Rosa |
| 1966 | |
| 1965 | El señor doctor · as Señora Martínez |
| 1961 | Little Red Riding Hood and Her Three Friends · as Red Riding Hood's Grandmother |
| 1961 | |
| 1961 | El proceso de las señoritas Vivanco · as Doña Teresa Vivanco Y De La Vega |
| 1960 | La sombra del Caudillo · as Dueña De Burdel |
| 1960 | La caperucita roja · as Abuelita |
| 1959 | Las señoritas Vivanco · as Teresa Vivanco |
| 1959 | |
| 1958 | |
| 1958 | |
| 1958 | Préstame tu cuerpo · as Simplicia |
| 1957 | Pepito y el monstruo · as Abuelita |
| 1957 | Pies de gato · as Cast |
| 1957 | El organillero · as Doña Tecla |
| 1956 | |
| 1956 | |
| 1956 | The Third Word · as Angelina |
| 1955 | La fuerza del deseo · as Juana |
| 1955 | El caso de la mujer asesinadita · as Sra. Llopis |
| 1955 | El asesino X · as Señora Encinas |
| 1955 | |
| 1954 | |
| 1954 | |
| 1953 | |
| 1953 | Women Who Work · as Srita. Benavides |
| 1952 | |
| 1952 | Sor Alegría · as Sor Úrsula |
| 1952 | |
| 1952 | Two Faces Have the Destiny · as Doña Remedios, Mamá De Anita |
| 1951 | |
| 1951 | Los huéspedes de La Marquesa · as Cast |
| 1951 | |
| 1951 | |
| 1950 | Inmaculada · as Doña Rosa |
| 1950 | Over the Waves · as Calixta Gutiérrez De Alfaro |
| 1950 | |
| 1950 | |
| 1949 | |
| 1949 | Nosotros los rateros · as Madre De Mercedes |
| 1949 | Contra la ley de Dios · as Cast |
| 1948 | Barrio de pasiones · as Cast |
| 1947 | Soledad · as Roberto's Mother |
| 1947 | |
| 1945 | Sierra Morena · as Cast |
| 1945 | |
| 1943 |