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
- Le fiabe dell'albero as Narratrice
- Nel mondo di Alice as La regina di cuori
- Lacombe, Lucien as Mme Georges
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
- I ragazzi dell'Hully Gully as contessa Corinna Salimbeni
- Le tardone as Adelina Borletti (episode "Un delitto quasi perfetto")
- Cleopazza as Madre di Gabriella
1963
- Le motorizzate as Sister Teresa (segment "Carmelitane Sprint")
1962
- L'assassino si chiama Pompeo as Doorkeeper Adelina
- Gli italiani e le donne as la moglie di Cesare
1961
- Walter e i Suoi Cugini as Adele
- Hercules in the Valley of Woe as l'indovina Ecubona
- Scandali al mare as Olga Cappelli
- Le magnifiche 7 as Margherita
- Le ambiziose as Ines
1960
- Purple Noon as Signora Gianna
- Madri pericolose as Mattea Tornabuoni
- Les Bonnes Femmes as Madame Louise
- A Mandarin for Teo as zia Gaspara
- I teddy boys della canzone as Donna Celestina
1959
- The Nun's Story as Sister Bernard (uncredited)
- Prepotenti più di prima as Clelia Pinelli
- Venetian Honeymoon as Yolanda
- Nights of the Teddy Boys as Sora Nole
- Le donne ci tengono assai as Angelica Allegri
1958
- I prepotenti as Clelia Pinelli
- Serenatella Sciuè Sciuè as Agrippina Scuoffolo
1956
- Liebe as Beatrice
- A Mink Coat as Assunta Santini
- I pinguini ci guardano
- The Bigamist as Mrs. Masetti / Missis Masetti
1955
- Eighteen Year Olds as Signorina Mattei
1954
- Air of Paris as Angela Posi
- Il matrimonio as Anastasia Scingalova, la madre della sposa
- Totò Seeks Peace as Gemma Torresi
- I Sing for You as Zia Bettina
- Storm as Cecilia
- La grande avventura
1953
- Martin Toccaferro
- Good Folk's Sunday as Elvira
- Gioventù alla sbarra as La sorella del giudice
- Madonna delle rose as Donna Filomena
1952
- La colpa di una madre as Rosa
- È arrivato l'accordatore as Signora Narducci
- Toto and the Women as Giovanna Scaparro
- Three Girls from Rome as Madre di Marisa
- Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen as Donna Rosa
- The Passaguai Family Gets Rich as Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
- Serenata amara as La madre die Mario
- Stranger on the Prowl
- Dad Becomes Mom as Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
- Mademoiselle Gobete as Aglae Tricoin
1951
- The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue as la nounou
- Paris Is Always Paris as Elvira de Angelis
- Teresa as Sra. Russo
- Cops and Robbers as Giovanna Bottoni
- Beauties in Capri as Cornelia
- The Affairs of Messalina as Locusta
- La famiglia Passaguai as Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
1950
- Tomorrow Is Too Late as Signora Berardi
- Totò Looking for Wife as La zia
- Sunday in August as Fernanda Meloni
- Il diavolo in convento as Caterina
- Il vedovo allegro as Dolores
- Cavalcata d'eroi as Aurelia
- Pact with the Devil as Signora Mola - Giacomo's wife
- Sambo as Amalia
- Duel Without Honor as Housekeeper
1949
- The Walls of Malapaga as Maria
- The Firemen of Viggiù as Gaetana
- The Za-Bum Circus as (segment "Galop finale al circo")
- I peggiori anni della nostra vita
- La sposa non può attendere as Evelina
- Yvonne of the Night as Rudegarda
- Signorinella as Iris
1948
- Difficult Years as Rosina Piscitello
- Heart as Mrs. Serra
- Emigrantes as Adele Bordoni
1947
- The Captain's Daughter as Mrs. Mironova
- Flesh Will Surrender as Emilia Canale
- Christmas at Camp 119 as La signora Mancini
- To Live in Peace as Corinna
- Angelina as Carmela
1946
- Before Him All Rome Trembled as Nina
- A Day in the Life as Sister Celeste
- Rome: Free City as L'affittacamere
- Revenge as Un'amica di Adele
- Canto, ma sottovoce... as Laura, la cameriera