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Prudencia Grifell

Prudencia Grifell

Actor · Born 1879-12-27 · Lugo, Galicia, Spain

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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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. El señor doctor (1965) — Señora Martínez
  2. Little Red Riding Hood (1959) — Abuelita
  3. The Third Word (1956) — Angelina
  4. Why Was I Born a Woman? (1970) — Doña Rosa
  5. The Shadow of the Tyrant (1960) — Dueña de burdel
  6. The Smile of the Virgin (1958)
  7. Over the Waves (1950) — Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
  8. Pensión de artistas (1956)
  9. Nosotros los rateros (1949) — Madre de Mercedes
  10. The Force of Desire (1955) — Juana
  11. Apartment house (1951) — Doña Leonor
  12. Soledad (1947) — Roberto's mother
  13. X Murderer (1955) — Señora Encinas
  14. La dama del alba (1950)
  15. Ladronzuela (1949)
  16. México nunca duerme (1959)
  17. Adultery (1945) — Doña Lupita
  18. Pepito and the Monster (1957) — Abuelita
  19. Cuando me vaya (1954) — Doña Generosa
  20. La ladrona (1954)
  21. Two Faces Have the Destiny (1952) — Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
  22. Una mujer en la calle (1955) — Tía Nena (María de Jesús)
  23. The Vivanco Ladies (1959) — Teresa Vivanco
  24. Póker de ases (1952)
  25. Las infieles (1953) — Mamá de Constanzia
  26. La hermana blanca (1960) — Madame Bernard
  27. The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies (1961) — Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
  28. The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris (1966)
  29. María Cristina (1951)
  30. Nuestras vidas (1950)
  31. Prisionera del pasado (1954)
  32. Sublime melodía (1956)
  33. Internado para señoritas (1943)
  34. Caperucita y sus tres amigos (1961) — Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
  35. El genial Detective Peter Pérez (1952)
  36. Al Diablo Las Mujeres (1955) — Doña Juanita
  37. The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman (1955) — Sra. Llopis
  38. Mi desconocida esposa (1958) — Abuela
  39. Senda prohibida (1961) — Federico's Mother
  40. Después de la tormenta (1955)