Prudencia Grifell
Known for Acting
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
Little Red Riding Hood
1959
as Abuelita
El señor doctor
1965
as Señora Martínez
Pensión de artistas
1956
Préstame tu cuerpo
1958
as Simplicia
The Shadow of the Tyrant
1960
as Dueña de burdel
La ladrona
1954
Póker de ases
1952
Why Was I Born a Woman?
1970
as Doña Rosa
The Third Word
1956
as Angelina
Over the Waves
1950
as Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
1961
as Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
Un minuto de bondad
1954
as Tía Margarita
Senda prohibida
1961
as Federico's Mother
Two Faces Have the Destiny
1952
as Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
Internado para señoritas
1943
Inmaculada
1950
as Doña Rosa
Las infieles
1953
as Mamá de Constanzia
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
1955
as Sra. Llopis
Pepito and the Monster
1957
as Abuelita
Soledad
1947
as Roberto's mother