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Prudencia Grifell
Born · December 27, 1879
Died · June 7, 1970 (90 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Lugo, Galicia, Spain
Bio
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
7.8
1970
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
4.4
1966
El señor doctor
Señora Martínez
7.8
1965
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
5.0
1961
Senda prohibida
Federico's Mother
5.5
1961
Mis abuelitas... no más!
5.3
1961
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
6.1
1961
The Shadow of the Tyrant
Dueña de burdel
6.5
1960
La hermana blanca
5.6
1960
Little Red Riding Hood
Abuelita
7.3
1959
The Vivanco Ladies
Teresa Vivanco
6.8
1959
México nunca duerme
5.0
1959
The Smile of the Virgin
5.5
1958
School for Mothers-in-Law
5.3
1958
El hombre que me gusta
5.5
1958
Préstame tu cuerpo
Simplicia
5.0
1958
Mi desconocida esposa
Abuela
5.0
1958
Horas de agonía
5.0
1958
Raffles
Doña Constancia
5.0
1958
Pepito and the Monster
Abuelita
5.2
1957
Sublime melodía
5.2
1956
Pensión de artistas
7.0
1956
The Third Word
Angelina
6.7
1956
Angel Face
5.0
1956
Melodías de amor
Tía Amelia
5.0
1955
The Force of Desire
Juana
4.6
1955
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
Sra. Llopis
6.0
1955
El plagiario
5.0
1955
X Murderer
Señora Encinas
5.2
1955
El monstruo en la sombra
5.0
1955
To Hell with Women
5.5
1955
Una mujer en la calle
3.7
1955
Después de la tormenta
5.3
1955
Prisionera del pasado
4.6
1954
Cuando me vaya
6.0
1954
La ladrona
5.0
1954
The Devil's Money
Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel
5.0
1953
Las infieles
6.8
1953
Mujeres que trabajan
Srita. Benavides
6.0
1953
La sexta carrera
5.0
1953
Siete mujeres
5.0
1953
Póker de ases
6.2
1952
El genial Detective Peter Pérez
5.5
1952
El ruiseñor del barrio
5.0
1952
Those Green Eyes
5.0
1952
Two Faces Have the Destiny
Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
6.0
1952
Mi adorado salvaje
5.0
1952
Lodo y armiño
5.0
1951
María Cristina
5.0
1951
Recién casados... no molestar
5.0
1951
Apartment house
5.6
1951
Historia de un corazón
5.0
1951
Entre tu amor y el cielo
Doña Francisca
5.0
1950
Inmaculada
Doña Rosa
5.0
1950
Over the Waves
Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
5.9
1950
Esposa o amante
5.0
1950
Nuestras vidas
5.2
1950
La dama del alba
5.0
1950
Ladronzuela
5.6
1949
Nosotros los rateros
Madre de Mercedes
6.1
1949
Soledad
Roberto's mother
5.0
1947
El amor abrió los ojos
5.0
1947
Los nietos de Don Venancio
5.3
1946
Una sombra en mi destino
5.0
1946
La culpable
María
5.0
1946
Adulterio
4.6
1945
El globo de Cantolla
5.5
1944
Internado para señoritas
6.0
1943