Prudencia Grifell
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1879-12-27
Day of Death
1970-06-07 (90 years old)
Place of Birth
Lugo, Galicia, Spain
Prudencia Grifell
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting
(1970)
Why Was I Born a Woman?
as Doña Rosa
(1966)
(1965)
El señor doctor
as Señora Martínez
(1961)
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
as Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
(1961)
Senda prohibida
as Federico's Mother
(1961)
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
as Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
(1961)
(1960)
The Shadow of the Tyrant
as Dueña de burdel
(1960)
La hermana blanca
as Madame Bernard
(1959)
Little Red Riding Hood
as Abuelita
(1959)
The Vivanco Ladies
as Teresa Vivanco
(1959)
(1958)
Préstame tu cuerpo
as Simplicia
(1958)
Raffles
as Doña Constancia
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
Mi desconocida esposa
as Abuela
(1958)
(1958)
(1957)
Pepito and the Monster
as Abuelita
(1956)
The Third Word
as Angelina
(1956)
(1956)
(1956)
(1955)
(1955)
To Hell with Women
as Doña Juanita
(1955)
X Murderer
as Señora Encinas
(1955)
The Force of Desire
as Juana
(1955)
Melodías de amor
as Tía Amelia
(1955)
(1955)
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
as Sra. Llopis
(1955)
(1955)
(1954)
(1954)
(1954)
(1953)
(1953)
(1953)
(1953)
Mujeres que trabajan
as Srita. Benavides
(1953)
The Devil's Money
as Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel
(1952)
(1952)
(1952)
Two Faces Have the Destiny
as Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
(1952)
(1952)
(1952)
(1951)
(1951)
(1951)
(1951)
(1951)
(1950)
Inmaculada
as Doña Rosa
(1950)
(1950)
(1950)
(1950)
Entre tu amor y el cielo
as Doña Francisca
(1950)
Over the Waves
as Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
(1949)
Nosotros los rateros
as Madre de Mercedes
(1949)
(1947)
Soledad
as Roberto's mother
(1947)
(1946)
(1946)
La culpable
as María
(1946)
(1945)
(1944)
(1943)