Cast & creator
Prudencia Grifell
Best known for El plagiario, El señor doctor, The Shadow of the Tyrant
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.
Also known as: Doña Prudencia Grifell, Prudencia María Victoria Grifell Masip
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1943–1970 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (69)
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El plagiario
1955
El señor doctor
Señora Martínez
1965
The Shadow of the Tyrant
Dueña de burdel
1960
The Force of Desire
Juana
1955
Two Faces Have the Destiny
Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
1952
Angel Face
1956
Tale of a Heart
1951
Después de la tormenta
1955
The Devil's Money
Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel
1953
Un minuto de bondad
Tía Margarita
1954
Why Was I Born a Woman?
Doña Rosa
1970
Mi desconocida esposa
Abuela
1958
Little Red Riding Hood
Abuelita
1959
Una mujer en la calle
Tía Nena (María de Jesús)
1955
The Man That Pleases Me
1958
La dama del alba
1950
El monstruo en la sombra
1955
La ladrona
1954
Entre tu amor y el cielo
Doña Francisca
1950
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
1966
The Smile of the Virgin
1958
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
Sra. Llopis
1955
El genial Detective Peter Pérez
1952Pepito and the Monster
Abuelita
1957
Apartment house
Doña Leonor
1951
El globo de Cantolla
1944
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
1961
Sublime melodía
1956
Al diablo las mujeres
Doña Juanita
1955The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
1961
Mis abuelitas... no más!
1961
Recién casados... no molestar
1951
Esposa o amante
1950
Prisionera del pasado
1954
X Murderer
Señora Encinas
1955
Cuando me vaya
Doña Generosa
1954
Los nietos de Don Venancio
1946
Una sombra en mi destino
1946
Pensión de artistas
1956
El ruiseñor del barrio
1952
Senda prohibida
Federico's Mother
1961
Préstame tu cuerpo
Simplicia
1958
María Cristina
1951
Those Green Eyes
1952
Póker de ases
1952
Melodías de amor
Tía Amelia
1955
El amor abrió los ojos
1947
Mi adorado salvaje
1952
Over the Waves
Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
1950
La hermana blanca
Madame Bernard
1960
Internado para señoritas
1943
Horas de agonía
1958
Lodo y Armiño
1951
Las infieles
Mamá de Constanzia
1953
Siete mujeres
1953
Mujeres que trabajan
Srita. Benavides
1953
The Third Word
Angelina
1956
School for Mothers-in-Law
1958
Soledad
Roberto's mother
1947
Adultery
Doña Lupita
1945
Inmaculada
Doña Rosa
1950
Raffles
Doña Constancia
1958
Nuestras vidas
1950
La sexta carrera
1953
The Vivanco Ladies
Teresa Vivanco
1959
México nunca duerme
1959
Ladronzuela
1949
Nosotros los rateros
Madre de Mercedes
1949
La culpable
María
1946