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
El señor doctor
Señora Martínez
Pensión de artistas
Little Red Riding Hood
Abuelita
The Third Word
Angelina
The Shadow of the Tyrant
Dueña de burdel
Después de la tormenta
The Vivanco Ladies
Teresa Vivanco
Entre tu amor y el cielo
Doña Francisca
Préstame tu cuerpo
Simplicia
Nosotros los rateros
Madre de Mercedes
Why Was I Born a Woman?
Doña Rosa
Póker de ases
Cuando me vaya
Senda prohibida
Federico's Mother
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
Prisionera del pasado
Mi desconocida esposa
Abuela
Inmaculada
Doña Rosa
To Hell with Women
Mujeres que trabajan
Srita. Benavides
X Murderer
Señora Encinas
Melodías de amor
Tía Amelia
Sublime melodía
Pepito and the Monster
Abuelita
Apartment house
El plagiario
Una mujer en la calle
The Devil's Money
Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel
Two Faces Have the Destiny
Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
Historia de un corazón
México nunca duerme
La hermana blanca
Madame Bernard
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
The Smile of the Virgin
School for Mothers-in-Law
Raffles
Doña Constancia
Adulterio
La sexta carrera
Horas de agonía
Lodo y armiño
La culpable
María
Esposa o amante
Over the Waves
Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
Una sombra en mi destino
The Force of Desire
Juana
La dama del alba
Las infieles
El amor abrió los ojos
El ruiseñor del barrio
Siete mujeres
El hombre que me gusta
Angel Face
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
El monstruo en la sombra
Nuestras vidas
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
Sra. Llopis
Ladronzuela
Those Green Eyes
Los nietos de Don Venancio
Soledad
Roberto's mother