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