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