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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1879-12-27

Place of Birth

Lugo, Galicia, Spain

Prudencia Grifell

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

El plagiario

El plagiario

Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.

La ladrona

La ladrona

Twin sisters butt heads over a feller. One goes into a convent, the other becomes a professional thiefstress.

Angel Face

Angel Face

Mischievous little girl pulls a variety of pranks for the purpose of preventing her parents from divorcing.

Apartment house

Apartment house

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

Pensión de artistas

Pensión de artistas

Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.

Those Green Eyes

Those Green Eyes

Orphan girl under the protection of a benefactor begins to suspect that her mother had an affair with him and that he's her father.

Lodo y Armiño

Lodo y Armiño

Wealthy libertine tries to seduce another man's mistress by threatening to send him to jail if she doesn't put out. Blowback from his sleazy behavior affects five other people; everybody suffers. Enormously.

Prisionera del pasado

Prisionera del pasado

Romance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolution.

Mi desconocida esposa

Mi desconocida esposa

After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.

Esposa o amante

Esposa o amante

Póker de ases

Póker de ases

Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.

Sublime melodía

Sublime melodía

Young widow with kindergarten-age daughter butts heads with her mother-in-law.

Mi adorado salvaje

Mi adorado salvaje

The old folks back home in Spain have arranged a marriage for their niece living in Mexico. To side-step their demands, she pretends to be already married, with a male acquaintance who agrees to pose as her husband while her relatives are visiting.

Melodías de amor

Melodías de amor

El señor doctor

El señor doctor

It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.