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.
★6.0
MOVIE1954
La ladrona
★7.5
MOVIE1959
Little Red Riding Hood
as Abuelita
★7.2
MOVIE1956
Pensión de artistas
★5.7
MOVIE1955
El plagiario
★8.0
MOVIE1965
El señor doctor
as Señora Martínez
★5.4
MOVIE1958
Mi desconocida esposa
as Abuela
★6.3
MOVIE1951
Apartment house
as Doña Leonor
★6.7
MOVIE1955
Melodías de amor
as Tía Amelia
★5.5
MOVIE1954
Prisionera del pasado
★6.3
MOVIE1950
Esposa o amante
★6.3
MOVIE1956
Angel Face
★7.0
MOVIE1960
The Shadow of the Tyrant
as Dueña de burdel
★5.6
MOVIE1951
Lodo y Armiño
★5.6
MOVIE1951
Recién casados... no molestar
★8.1
MOVIE1970
Why Was I Born a Woman?
as Doña Rosa
★6.2
MOVIE1952
Two Faces Have the Destiny
as Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
★6.0
MOVIE1952
Those Green Eyes
★6.5
MOVIE1952
Póker de ases
★4.4
MOVIE1955
The Force of Desire
as Juana
★5.4
MOVIE1952
Mi adorado salvaje
★7.0
MOVIE1953
Las infieles
as Mamá de Constanzia
★6.2
MOVIE1961
Senda prohibida
as Federico's Mother
★6.0
MOVIE1956
Sublime melodía
★6.3
MOVIE1958
Préstame tu cuerpo
as Simplicia
★6.2
MOVIE1943
Internado para señoritas
★6.1
MOVIE1950
Over the Waves
as Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
★6.0
MOVIE1953
The Devil's Money
as Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel
★6.3
MOVIE1958
School for Mothers-in-Law
★6.0
MOVIE1955
Al Diablo Las Mujeres
as Doña Juanita
★6.8
MOVIE1955
Después de la tormenta
★5.8
MOVIE1952
El ruiseñor del barrio
★4.8
MOVIE1955
Una mujer en la calle
as Tía Nena (María de Jesús)
★5.8
MOVIE1952
El genial Detective Peter Pérez
★6.0
MOVIE1947
El amor abrió los ojos
★6.2
MOVIE1953
Mujeres que trabajan
as Srita. Benavides
★5.4
MOVIE1958
Horas de agonía
★6.8
MOVIE1955
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
as Sra. Llopis
★5.7
MOVIE1959
México nunca duerme
★6.3
MOVIE1950
Inmaculada
as Doña Rosa
★6.2
MOVIE1961
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
as Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
★7.0
MOVIE1956
The Third Word
as Angelina
★6.0
MOVIE1955
El monstruo en la sombra
★6.3
MOVIE1950
Entre tu amor y el cielo
as Doña Francisca
★6.3
MOVIE1949
Nosotros los rateros
as Madre de Mercedes
★5.8
MOVIE1958
The Man That Pleases Me
★6.4
MOVIE1954
Un minuto de bondad
as Tía Margarita
★5.8
MOVIE1957
Pepito and the Monster
as Abuelita
★5.7
MOVIE1958
The Smile of the Virgin
★7.0
MOVIE1959
The Vivanco Ladies
as Teresa Vivanco
★4.0
MOVIE1945
Adultery
as Doña Lupita
★5.9
MOVIE1947
Soledad
as Roberto's mother
★6.7
MOVIE1949
Ladronzuela
★5.4
MOVIE1955
X Murderer
as Señora Encinas
★6.8
MOVIE1954
Cuando me vaya
as Doña Generosa
★6.3
MOVIE1961
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
as Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
★5.8
MOVIE1946
Los nietos de Don Venancio
★5.8
MOVIE1958
Raffles
as Doña Constancia
★5.3
MOVIE1966
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
★6.0
MOVIE1950
Nuestras vidas
★6.7
MOVIE1953
Siete mujeres
★6.2
MOVIE1960
La hermana blanca
as Madame Bernard
★6.5
MOVIE1953
La sexta carrera
★5.7
MOVIE1946
Una sombra en mi destino
★6.7
MOVIE1951
Tale of a Heart
★6.3
MOVIE1950
La dama del alba
★5.7
MOVIE1946
La culpable
as María
★5.5
MOVIE1951
María Cristina
★5.8
MOVIE1944
El globo de Cantolla
★5.8
MOVIE1961