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.
69 acting credits
Acting · 69
El señor doctor
1965
Little Red Riding Hood
1959
Pensión de artistas
1956
The Shadow of the Tyrant
1960
The Third Word
1956
Inmaculada
1950
The Force of Desire
1955
México nunca duerme
1959
Una mujer en la calle
1955
Melodías de amor
1955
X Murderer
1955
Lodo y armiño
1951
Why Was I Born a Woman?
1970
La sexta carrera
1953
Adultery
1945
Una sombra en mi destino
1946
Póker de ases
1952
Soledad
1947
Cuando me vaya
1954
Two Faces Have the Destiny
1952
The Vivanco Ladies
1959
La dama del alba
1950
Siete mujeres
1953
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
1955
Mi adorado salvaje
1952
Un minuto de bondad
1954
Nosotros los rateros
1949
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
1961
Senda prohibida
1961
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
1961
Nuestras vidas
1950
Mis abuelitas... no más!
1961
Las infieles
1953
Apartment house
1951
Over the Waves
1950
Ladronzuela
1949
La culpable
1946
María Cristina
1951
Prisionera del pasado
1954
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
1966
The Smile of the Virgin
1958
El ruiseñor del barrio
1952
Entre tu amor y el cielo
1950
Angel Face
1956
Al Diablo Las Mujeres
1955
El globo de Cantolla
1944
The Devil's Money
1953
Internado para señoritas
1943
Sublime melodía
1956
Raffles
1958
School for Mothers-in-Law
1958
Horas de agonía
1958
The Man That Pleases Me
1958
La ladrona
1954
Préstame tu cuerpo
1958
Los nietos de Don Venancio
1946
El amor abrió los ojos
1947
Mi desconocida esposa
1958
Esposa o amante
1950
El monstruo en la sombra
1955
Después de la tormenta
1955
El plagiario
1955
Pepito and the Monster
1957
Tale of a Heart
1951
La hermana blanca
1960
El genial Detective Peter Pérez
1952
Recién casados... no molestar
1951
Those Green Eyes
1952
Mujeres que trabajan
1953