Prudencia Grifell
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.
Filmography
Why Was I Born a Woman?
1970
as Doña Rosa
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
1966
El señor doctor
1965
as Señora Martínez
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
1961
as Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
Senda prohibida
1961
as Federico's Mother
Mis abuelitas... no más!
1961
- No poster
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
1961
as Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
La hermana blanca
1960
as Madame Bernard
The Shadow of the Tyrant
1960
as Dueña de burdel
Little Red Riding Hood
1959
as Abuelita
The Vivanco Ladies
1959
as Teresa Vivanco
México nunca duerme
1959
The Smile of the Virgin
1958
School for Mothers-in-Law
1958
The Man That Pleases Me
1958
Préstame tu cuerpo
1958
as Simplicia
Mi desconocida esposa
1958
as Abuela
Horas de agonía
1958
Raffles
1958
as Doña Constancia
- No poster
Pepito and the Monster
1957
as Abuelita
Sublime melodía
1956
Pensión de artistas
1956
The Third Word
1956
as Angelina
Angel Face
1956