Prudencia Grifell
Actor
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
Little Red Riding Hood
as Abuelita 1959
The Third Word
as Angelina 1956
Why Was I Born a Woman?
as Doña Rosa 1970
The Shadow of the Tyrant
as Dueña de burdel 1960
The Smile of the Virgin
1958
Over the Waves
as Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro 1950
Pensión de artistas
1956
Nosotros los rateros
as Madre de Mercedes 1949
Apartment house
1951
Soledad
as Roberto's mother 1947
X Murderer
as Señora Encinas 1955
La dama del alba
1950
The Force of Desire
as Juana 1955
Adulterio
1945
Ladronzuela
1949
México nunca duerme
1959