Prudencia Grifell
Actor
- Born
- December 27, 1879 · Lugo, Galicia, Spain
- Died
- June 7, 1970 (age 90)
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.
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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.
Known for
El señor doctor
October 7, 1965
Little Red Riding Hood
May 5, 1959
Why Was I Born a Woman?
August 20, 1970
The Third Word
July 3, 1956
The Shadow of the Tyrant
August 22, 1960
The Smile of the Virgin
December 4, 1958
Over the Waves
September 13, 1950
Pensión de artistas
August 24, 1956
Nosotros los rateros
September 7, 1949
The Force of Desire
July 22, 1955
Apartment house
February 8, 1951
Soledad
November 28, 1947
Acting69
- 1970Why Was I Born a Woman? as Doña Rosa
- 1966The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
- 1965El señor doctor as Señora Martínez
- 1961Caperucita y sus tres amigos as Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
- 1961Senda prohibida as Federico's Mother
- 1961Mis abuelitas... no más!
- 1961The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies as Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
- 1960La hermana blanca as Madame Bernard
- 1960The Shadow of the Tyrant as Dueña de burdel
- 1959Little Red Riding Hood