Prudencia Grifell
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.
Why Was I Born a Woman?
Doña Rosa
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
El señor doctor
Señora Martínez
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
Senda prohibida
Federico's Mother
Mis abuelitas... no más!
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
La hermana blanca
Madame Bernard
The Shadow of the Tyrant
Dueña de burdel
Little Red Riding Hood
Abuelita
The Vivanco Ladies
Teresa Vivanco
México nunca duerme
The Smile of the Virgin
School for Mothers-in-Law
El hombre que me gusta
Préstame tu cuerpo
Simplicia
Mi desconocida esposa
Abuela
Horas de agonía
Raffles
Doña Constancia
Pepito and the Monster
Abuelita
Sublime melodía
Pensión de artistas
The Third Word
Angelina
Angel Face
Melodías de amor
Tía Amelia
The Force of Desire
Juana
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
Sra. Llopis
El plagiario
X Murderer
Señora Encinas
El monstruo en la sombra
Al Diablo Las Mujeres
Doña Juanita
Una mujer en la calle
Después de la tormenta
Prisionera del pasado
Cuando me vaya
La ladrona
Un minuto de bondad
Tía Margarita
The Devil's Money
Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel
Las infieles
Mamá de Constanzia
Mujeres que trabajan
Srita. Benavides
Siete mujeres
La sexta carrera
Póker de ases
El genial Detective Peter Pérez
El ruiseñor del barrio
Those Green Eyes
Mi adorado salvaje
Two Faces Have the Destiny
Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
Lodo y armiño
María Cristina
Recién casados... no molestar
Apartment house
Doña Leonor
Tale of a Heart
Entre tu amor y el cielo
Doña Francisca
Inmaculada
Doña Rosa
Over the Waves
Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
Esposa o amante
Nuestras vidas
La dama del alba
Ladronzuela
Nosotros los rateros
Madre de Mercedes
Soledad
Roberto's mother
El amor abrió los ojos
Los nietos de Don Venancio
La culpable
María
Una sombra en mi destino
Adultery
Doña Lupita
El globo de Cantolla
Internado para señoritas