Prudencia Grifell

Acting

Prudencia Grifell

Born 1879-12-27 · 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 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.

Acting credits

Angel Face poster
6.2

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

Angel Face

1956

La ladrona poster
6.3

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

La ladrona

1954

The Shadow of the Tyrant poster
7.0

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.

The Shadow of the Tyrant

1960

El plagiario poster
5.7

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

El plagiario

1955

Little Red Riding Hood poster
7.5

The classic story of the Red Riding Hood spiced up by a couple of funny characters like the dog Duke, companion to the girl in her adventures, and the stinky Skunk, henchman to the Wolf.

Little Red Riding Hood

1959

The Smile of the Virgin poster
5.7

Marita, a charming little girl, lives in the country with her grandmother. Her best friend is a modest servant, Anselmo, who almost everyday takes the girl to visit the church known as "Guadalupe's Basilica", an important cathedral in Mexico City, where she discovers Virgin Guadalupe and the legend about her apparitions in that place. Marita doesn't behave properly in school, and her teacher always has a punishment for the girl. She doesn't like school, and she doesn't want to return to school anymore. Besides, Marita's worried about her animals, like a cow who doesn't produce milk. The girl asks many miracles of Virgin Guadalupe, one of them is to not have to go to school. During a visit to the Basilica, Marita hears the Virgin's voice, and this could be the beginning of a responsible life for the girl, like to study and to be a good child.

The Smile of the Virgin

1958

El señor doctor poster
8.0

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.

El señor doctor

1965

Sublime melodía poster
6.0

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

Sublime melodía

1956

Apartment house poster
6.3

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

Apartment house

1951

Mi adorado salvaje poster
5.4

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.

Mi adorado salvaje

1952

Esposa o amante poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Esposa o amante

1950

Póker de ases poster
6.5

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

Póker de ases

1952

Melodías de amor poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Melodías de amor

1955

Prisionera del pasado poster
5.5

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

Prisionera del pasado

1954

Lodo y Armiño poster
5.6

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.

Lodo y Armiño

1951

Pensión de artistas poster
7.2

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

Pensión de artistas

1956

Those Green Eyes poster
6.0

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.

Those Green Eyes

1952

Entre tu amor y el cielo poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Entre tu amor y el cielo

1950

Adultery poster
4.9

Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.

Adultery

1945

Mi desconocida esposa poster
5.4

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

Mi desconocida esposa

1958

Why Was I Born a Woman? poster
8.1

A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles.

Why Was I Born a Woman?

1970

Al diablo las mujeres poster
6.0

Rosa, a mayor, faces pressure from her police chief father to imprison her cousins. After a kidnapping and tampering with vaccines, Rosa realizes politics isn't for women.

Al diablo las mujeres

1955

Las infieles poster
7.0

Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.

Las infieles

1953

Nosotros los rateros poster
6.3

A young woman, a thief and a lawyer find themselves in the same hotel room without planning it. Mercedes, the thief, has a brother who, by mistake, kidnaps the lawyer Alberto, which will cause a mess.

Nosotros los rateros

1949