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