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 | 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 | 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 | The Vivanco Ladies | Teresa Vivanco | 1959-04-09 |
Movie | Mi desconocida esposa | Abuela | 1958-01-22 |
Movie | Préstame tu cuerpo | Simplicia | 1958-04-01 |
Movie | The Smile of the Virgin | 1958-12-04 | |
Movie | School for Mothers-in-Law | 1958-12-01 | |
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 | To Hell with Women | 1955-02-17 | |
Movie | Después de la tormenta | 1955-01-21 | |
Movie | Una mujer en la calle | 1955-02-03 | |
Movie | X Murderer | Señora Encinas | 1955-03-18 |
Movie | The Monster of the Shadow | 1955-03-10 | |
Movie | The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman | Sra. Llopis | 1955-05-27 |
Movie | El plagiario | 1955-04-28 | |
Movie | La ladrona | 1954-03-18 | |
Movie | Cuando me vaya | 1954-06-04 | |
Movie | Las infieles | 1953-07-09 | |
Movie | Siete mujeres | 1953-01-01 | |
Movie | Two Faces Have the Destiny | Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita | 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 | Apartment house | 1951-02-08 | |
Movie | Over the Waves | Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro | 1950-09-13 |
Movie | Inmaculada | Doña Rosa | 1950-09-15 |
Movie | Nosotros los rateros | Madre de Mercedes | 1949-09-07 |
Movie | Soledad | Roberto's mother | 1947-11-28 |
Movie | Los nietos de Don Venancio | 1946-06-13 | |
Movie | La culpable | María | 1946-01-01 |
Movie | Internado para señoritas | 1943-11-11 |
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