Ave Ninchi
Born: 1915-12-14 in Ancona, Italy
Died: 1997-11-10
Known For: Acting
Biography
Ave Maria Ninchi (14 December 1914 – 10 November 1997) was an Italian supporting actress who played character roles on stage, television, and in over 98 feature films that included Tomorrow Is Too Late (1949) and Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart (1971) and Lacombe Lucien (1974). Ninchi has worked with some of Italy's top movie stars, including Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, Marcello Mastroianni, Alberto Sordi, and Gina Lollobrigida; her performances playing in duo with Aldo Fabrizi and Totò are particularly memorable. Her television career was at its peak during the 1960s and 1970s when she was appearing in some of Italy's top-rated series. Source: Article "Ave Ninchi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
1980
1974
- Lacombe, Lucien as Mme Georges
- Le fiabe dell'albero as Narratrice
- Nel mondo di Alice as La regina di cuori
1972
- Pulp as Fat Chambermaid
1971
- Murmur of the Heart as Augusta
- Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?... as Annunziata Caccavallo
- I due assi del guantone as Adele
1968
- House of Cards as Signora Orragi
- Il sole è di tutti
1966
- Gli altri, gli altri e noi as Shop owner
1965
- I'm Not Worthy of You as Cesira
1964
- So In Love as Cuoca Cesira
- Le tardone as Adelina Borletti (episode "Un delitto quasi perfetto")
- I ragazzi dell'Hully Gully as contessa Corinna Salimbeni
- Cleopazza as Madre di Gabriella
1963
- Le motorizzate as Sister Teresa (segment "Carmelitane Sprint")
1962
- Gli italiani e le donne as la moglie di Cesare
- L'assassino si chiama Pompeo as Doorkeeper Adelina
1961
- Hercules in the Valley of Woe as l'indovina Ecubona
- Walter e i Suoi Cugini as Adele
- Scandali al mare as Olga Cappelli
- Le magnifiche 7 as Margherita
- Le ambiziose as Ines
1960
- Purple Noon as Signora Gianna
- Les Bonnes Femmes as Madame Louise
- Madri pericolose as Mattea Tornabuoni
- I teddy boys della canzone as Donna Celestina
- A Mandarin for Teo as zia Gaspara
1959
- The Nun's Story as Sister Bernard (uncredited)
- Venetian Honeymoon as Yolanda
- Prepotenti più di prima as Clelia Pinelli
- Nights of the Teddy Boys as Sora Nole
- Le donne ci tengono assai as Angelica Allegri
1958
- Serenatella Sciuè Sciuè as Agrippina Scuoffolo
- I prepotenti as Clelia Pinelli
1956
- Liebe as Beatrice
- The Bigamist as Mrs. Masetti / Missis Masetti
- A Mink Coat as Assunta Santini
- I pinguini ci guardano
1955
- Eighteen Year Olds as Signorina Mattei
1954
- Air of Paris as Angela Posi
- Totò Seeks Peace as Gemma Torresi
- La grande avventura
- Il matrimonio as Anastasia Scingalova, la madre della sposa
- I Sing for You as Zia Bettina
- Storm as Cecilia
1953
- Martin Toccaferro
- Madonna delle rose as Donna Filomena
- Good Folk's Sunday as Elvira
- Gioventù alla sbarra as La sorella del giudice
1952
- Serenata amara as La madre die Mario
- Toto and the Women as Giovanna Scaparro
- Dad Becomes Mom as Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
- È arrivato l'accordatore as Signora Narducci
- Three Girls from Rome as Madre di Marisa
- Mademoiselle Gobete as Aglae Tricoin
- The Passaguai Family Gets Rich as Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
- Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen as Donna Rosa
- Stranger on the Prowl
1951
- The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue as la nounou
- The Affairs of Messalina as Locusta
- Cops and Robbers as Giovanna Bottoni
- Paris Is Always Paris as Elvira de Angelis
- Teresa as Sra. Russo
- Beauties in Capri as Cornelia
- La famiglia Passaguai as Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
1950
- Tomorrow Is Too Late as Signora Berardi
- Totò Looking for Wife as La zia
- Pact with the Devil as Signora Mola - Giacomo's wife
- Sunday in August as Fernanda Meloni
- Cavalcata d'eroi as Aurelia
- Il diavolo in convento as Caterina
- Il vedovo allegro as Dolores
- Duel Without Honor as Housekeeper
- Sambo as Amalia
1949
- The Walls of Malapaga as Maria
- Yvonne of the Night as Rudegarda
- La sposa non può attendere as Evelina
- I peggiori anni della nostra vita
- The Firemen of Viggiù as Gaetana
- Signorinella as Iris
- The Za-Bum Circus as (segment "Galop finale al circo")
1948
- Difficult Years as Rosina Piscitello
- Heart as Mrs. Serra
- Emigrantes as Adele Bordoni
1947
- Angelina as Carmela
- To Live in Peace as Corinna
- Flesh Will Surrender as Emilia Canale
- The Captain's Daughter as Mrs. Mironova
- Christmas at Camp 119 as La signora Mancini
1946
- Rome: Free City as L'affittacamere
- Revenge as Un'amica di Adele
- Before Him All Rome Trembled as Nina
- Canto, ma sottovoce... as Laura, la cameriera
- A Day in the Life as Sister Celeste