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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 27, 1879
Died
June 7, 1970
Place of Birth
Lugo, Galicia, Spain
Also Known As
- Doña Prudencia Grifell
- Prudencia María Victoria Grifell Masip
Prudencia Grifell
0.1 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.9
Doña Rosa
Why Was I Born a Woman?
1970
4.4
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
1966
7.8
Señora Martínez
El señor doctor
1965
5.5
Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
1961
5.5
Federico's Mother
Senda prohibida
1961
5.3
Mis abuelitas... no más!
1961
🎬
6.1
Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
1961
5.6
Madame Bernard
La hermana blanca
1960
6.5
Dueña de burdel
The Shadow of the Tyrant
1960
7.3
Abuelita
Little Red Riding Hood
1959
Credits
Why Was I Born a Woman?
as Doña Rosa
1970
7.9
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
1966
4.4
El señor doctor
as Señora Martínez
1965
7.8
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
as Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
1961
5.5
Senda prohibida
as Federico's Mother
1961
5.5
Mis abuelitas... no más!
1961
5.3
🎬
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
as Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
1961
6.1
La hermana blanca
as Madame Bernard
1960
5.6
The Shadow of the Tyrant
as Dueña de burdel
1960
6.5
Little Red Riding Hood
as Abuelita
1959
7.3
The Vivanco Ladies
as Teresa Vivanco
1959
6.8
México nunca duerme
1959
5.0
The Smile of the Virgin
1958
5.5
School for Mothers-in-Law
1958
5.3
El hombre que me gusta
1958
5.5
Préstame tu cuerpo
as Simplicia
1958
5.0
Mi desconocida esposa
as Abuela
1958
5.0
Horas de agonía
1958
5.0
Raffles
as Doña Constancia
1958
5.0
🎬
Pepito and the Monster
as Abuelita
1957
5.2
Sublime melodía
1956
5.2
Pensión de artistas
1956
7.0
The Third Word
as Angelina
1956
6.7
Angel Face
1956
5.0
Melodías de amor
as Tía Amelia
1955
5.0
The Force of Desire
as Juana
1955
4.6
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
as Sra. Llopis
1955
6.0
El plagiario
1955
5.0
X Murderer
as Señora Encinas
1955
5.2
El monstruo en la sombra
1955
5.0
To Hell with Women
as Doña Juanita
1955
5.5
Una mujer en la calle
1955
3.7
Después de la tormenta
1955
5.3
Prisionera del pasado
1954
4.6
Cuando me vaya
1954
6.0
La ladrona
1954
5.0
The Devil's Money
as Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel
1953
5.0
Las infieles
1953
6.8
Mujeres que trabajan
as Srita. Benavides
1953
6.0
La sexta carrera
1953
5.0
Siete mujeres
1953
5.0
Póker de ases
1952
6.2
El genial Detective Peter Pérez
1952
5.5
El ruiseñor del barrio
1952
5.0
Those Green Eyes
1952
5.0
Two Faces Have the Destiny
as Doña Remedios, mamá de Anita
1952
6.0
Mi adorado salvaje
1952
5.0
Lodo y armiño
1951
5.0
María Cristina
1951
5.0
Recién casados... no molestar
1951
5.0
Apartment house
1951
5.6
Historia de un corazón
1951
5.0
Entre tu amor y el cielo
as Doña Francisca
1950
5.0
Inmaculada
as Doña Rosa
1950
5.0
Over the Waves
as Calixta Gutiérrez de Alfaro
1950
5.9
Esposa o amante
1950
5.0
Nuestras vidas
1950
5.2
La dama del alba
1950
5.0
Ladronzuela
1949
5.6
Nosotros los rateros
as Madre de Mercedes
1949
6.1
Soledad
as Roberto's mother
1947
5.0
El amor abrió los ojos
1947
5.0
Los nietos de Don Venancio
1946
5.3
La culpable
as María
1946
5.0
Una sombra en mi destino
1946
5.0
Adulterio
1945
4.6
El globo de Cantolla
1944
5.5
Internado para señoritas
1943
6.0