Prudencia Grifell
Acting
1879-12-27 · Lugo, Galicia, Spain
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.
Filmography
Why Was I Born a Woman?
1970 · Movie
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
1966 · Movie
El señor doctor
1965 · Movie
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
1961 · Movie
Senda prohibida
1961 · Movie
Mis abuelitas... no más!
1961 · Movie
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
1961 · Movie
La hermana blanca
1960 · Movie
The Shadow of the Tyrant
1960 · Movie
Little Red Riding Hood
1959 · Movie
The Vivanco Ladies
1959 · Movie
México nunca duerme
1959 · Movie
The Smile of the Virgin
1958 · Movie
School for Mothers-in-Law
1958 · Movie
The Man That Pleases Me
1958 · Movie
Préstame tu cuerpo
1958 · Movie
Mi desconocida esposa
1958 · Movie
Horas de agonía
1958 · Movie
Raffles
1958 · Movie
Pepito and the Monster
1957 · Movie
Sublime melodía
1956 · Movie
Pensión de artistas
1956 · Movie
The Third Word
1956 · Movie
Angel Face
1956 · Movie
Melodías de amor
1955 · Movie
The Force of Desire
1955 · Movie
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
1955 · Movie
El plagiario
1955 · Movie
X Murderer
1955 · Movie
El monstruo en la sombra
1955 · Movie
Al diablo las mujeres
1955 · Movie
Una mujer en la calle
1955 · Movie
Después de la tormenta
1955 · Movie
Prisionera del pasado
1954 · Movie
Cuando me vaya
1954 · Movie
La ladrona
1954 · Movie
Un minuto de bondad
1954 · Movie
The Devil's Money
1953 · Movie
Las infieles
1953 · Movie
Mujeres que trabajan
1953 · Movie
La sexta carrera
1953 · Movie
Siete mujeres
1953 · Movie
Póker de ases
1952 · Movie
El genial Detective Peter Pérez
1952 · Movie
El ruiseñor del barrio
1952 · Movie
Those Green Eyes
1952 · Movie
Two Faces Have the Destiny
1952 · Movie
Mi adorado salvaje
1952 · Movie
Lodo y Armiño
1951 · Movie
María Cristina
1951 · Movie
Recién casados... no molestar
1951 · Movie
Apartment house
1951 · Movie
Tale of a Heart
1951 · Movie
Entre tu amor y el cielo
1950 · Movie
Inmaculada
1950 · Movie
Over the Waves
1950 · Movie
Esposa o amante
1950 · Movie
Nuestras vidas
1950 · Movie
La dama del alba
1950 · Movie
Ladronzuela
1949 · Movie
Nosotros los rateros
1949 · Movie
Soledad
1947 · Movie
El amor abrió los ojos
1947 · Movie
Los nietos de Don Venancio
1946 · Movie
La culpable
1946 · Movie
Una sombra en mi destino
1946 · Movie
Adultery
1945 · Movie
El globo de Cantolla
1944 · Movie
Internado para señoritas
1943 · Movie