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Prudencia Grifell
Lugo, Galicia, Spain
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 Spanis…
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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.
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1970
Why Was I Born a Woman?
Movie Doña Rosa
- 1966
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1965
El señor doctor
Movie Señora Martínez
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1961
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
Movie Red Riding Hood's Grandmother
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1961
Senda prohibida
Movie Federico's Mother
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1961
Mis abuelitas... no más!
Movie
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1961
The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies
Movie Doña Teresa Vivanco y de la Vega
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1960
La hermana blanca
Movie Madame Bernard
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1960
The Shadow of the Tyrant
Movie Dueña de burdel
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1959
Little Red Riding Hood
Movie Abuelita
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1959
The Vivanco Ladies
Movie Teresa Vivanco
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1959
México nunca duerme
Movie
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1958
The Smile of the Virgin
Movie
- 1958
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1958
The Man That Pleases Me
Movie
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1958
Préstame tu cuerpo
Movie Simplicia
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1958
Mi desconocida esposa
Movie Abuela
-
1958
Horas de agonía
Movie
-
1958
Raffles
Movie Doña Constancia
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1957
Pepito and the Monster
Movie Abuelita
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1956
Sublime melodía
Movie
-
1956
Pensión de artistas
Movie
-
1956
The Third Word
Movie Angelina
-
1956
Angel Face
Movie
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1955
Melodías de amor
Movie Tía Amelia
-
1955
The Force of Desire
Movie Juana
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1955
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
Movie Sra. Llopis
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1955
El plagiario
Movie
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1955
X Murderer
Movie Señora Encinas
-
1955
El monstruo en la sombra
Movie
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1955
Al diablo las mujeres
Movie Doña Juanita
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1955
Una mujer en la calle
Movie Tía Nena (María de Jesús)
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1955
Después de la tormenta
Movie
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1954
Prisionera del pasado
Movie
-
1954
Cuando me vaya
Movie Doña Generosa
-
1954
La ladrona
Movie
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1954
Un minuto de bondad
Movie Tía Margarita
-
1953
The Devil's Money
Movie Sra. Olea, madre de Manuel
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1953
Las infieles
Movie Mamá de Constanzia
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1953
Mujeres que trabajan
Movie Srita. Benavides
