Cast
Prudencia Grifell
Acting
Cast
Prudencia Grifell
Known for
Acting
Born
1879-12-27
From
Lugo, Galicia, Spain
Died
1970-06-07
Also known as Doña Prudencia Grifell, Prudencia María Victoria Grifell Masip
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.
Adultery
as Doña Lupita
Little Red Riding Hood
as Abuelita
El plagiario
El señor doctor
as Señora Martínez
Inmaculada
as Doña Rosa
The Force of Desire
as Juana
Soledad
as Roberto's mother
Una mujer en la calle
Prisionera del pasado
Pensión de artistas
Esposa o amante
The Devil's Money
as Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel
The Shadow of the Tyrant
as Dueña de burdel
The Vivanco Ladies
as Teresa Vivanco
Pepito and the Monster
as Abuelita
Póker de ases
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
as Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
Two Faces Have the Destiny
as Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
The Third Word
as Angelina
School for Mothers-in-Law
Apartment house
as Doña Leonor
Melodías de amor
as Tía Amelia
Los nietos de Don Venancio
La ladrona
Why Was I Born a Woman?
as Doña Rosa
The Man That Pleases Me
Angel Face
Ladronzuela
La culpable
as María
Un minuto de bondad
as Tía Margarita
Senda prohibida
as Federico's Mother
Préstame tu cuerpo
as Simplicia
Lodo y armiño
México nunca duerme
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
as Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
The Smile of the Virgin
La sexta carrera
Internado para señoritas
El amor abrió los ojos
El ruiseñor del barrio
Horas de agonía
Después de la tormenta
Raffles
as Doña Constancia
Tale of a Heart
Las infieles
as Mamá de Constanzia
Mi desconocida esposa
as Abuela
Nuestras vidas
Those Green Eyes
Siete mujeres
Sublime melodía
El genial Detective Peter Pérez
Entre tu amor y el cielo
as Doña Francisca
Over the Waves
as Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
El globo de Cantolla
Nosotros los rateros
as Madre de Mercedes
La hermana blanca
as Madame Bernard
Mis abuelitas... no más!
Al Diablo Las Mujeres
as Doña Juanita
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
as Sra. Llopis
María Cristina
Una sombra en mi destino
Recién casados... no molestar
El monstruo en la sombra
Cuando me vaya
X Murderer
as Señora Encinas
La dama del alba
Mujeres que trabajan
as Srita. Benavides
