Prudencia Grifell
Acting · Born 1879-12-27 · age 90 at death · Lugo, Galicia, Spain
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.
Titles
El señor doctor
Little Red Riding Hood
The Third Word
Why Was I Born a Woman?
The Shadow of the Tyrant
The Smile of the Virgin
Over the Waves
Pensión de artistas
Nosotros los rateros
Apartment house
Soledad
X Murderer
The Force of Desire
La dama del alba
Ladronzuela
México nunca duerme
Adultery
Pepito and the Monster
Cuando me vaya
Two Faces Have the Destiny
Una mujer en la calle
The Vivanco Ladies
Póker de ases
Las infieles
La hermana blanca
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
María Cristina
Nuestras vidas
Prisionera del pasado
Sublime melodía
Internado para señoritas
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
El genial Detective Peter Pérez
La ladrona
Al Diablo Las Mujeres
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
Mi desconocida esposa
Senda prohibida
Después de la tormenta
El globo de Cantolla
The Man That Pleases Me
Horas de agonía
Mi adorado salvaje
El ruiseñor del barrio
Recién casados... no molestar
Mujeres que trabajan
Lodo y Armiño
The Devil's Money
Un minuto de bondad
La sexta carrera
Los nietos de Don Venancio
Angel Face
School for Mothers-in-Law
Mis abuelitas... no más!
Entre tu amor y el cielo
Raffles
El amor abrió los ojos
Tale of a Heart
Those Green Eyes