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.
Acting
Movie
El señor doctor
as Señora Martínez
1965
Movie
Little Red Riding Hood
as Abuelita
1959
Movie
The Third Word
as Angelina
1956
Movie
Why Was I Born a Woman?
as Doña Rosa
1970
Movie
The Shadow of the Tyrant
as Dueña de burdel
1960
Movie
The Smile of the Virgin
1958
Movie
Over the Waves
as Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
1950
Movie
Pensión de artistas
1956
Movie
Nosotros los rateros
as Madre de Mercedes
1949
Movie
Apartment house
as Doña Leonor
1951
Movie
Soledad
as Roberto's mother
1947
Movie
X Murderer
as Señora Encinas
1955
Movie
The Force of Desire
as Juana
1955
Movie
La dama del alba
1950
Movie
Ladronzuela
1949
Movie
México nunca duerme
1959
Movie
Adultery
as Doña Lupita
1945
Movie
Pepito and the Monster
as Abuelita
1957
Movie
Cuando me vaya
1954
Movie
Two Faces Have the Destiny
as Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
1952
Movie
Una mujer en la calle
1955
Movie
The Vivanco Ladies
as Teresa Vivanco
1959
Movie
Póker de ases
1952
Movie
Las infieles
as Mamá de Constanzia
1953