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