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
- Nel mondo di Alice as La regina di cuori
- Le fiabe dell'albero as Narratrice
1972
- Pulp as Fat Chambermaid
1971
- Murmur of the Heart as Augusta
- I due assi del guantone as Adele
- Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?... as Annunziata Caccavallo
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
- Le tardone as Adelina Borletti (episode "Un delitto quasi perfetto")
- So In Love as Cuoca Cesira
- Cleopazza as Madre di Gabriella
- I ragazzi dell'Hully Gully as contessa Corinna Salimbeni
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
- Le ambiziose as Ines
- Le magnifiche 7 as Margherita
- Hercules in the Valley of Woe as l'indovina Ecubona
- Walter e i Suoi Cugini as Adele
- Scandali al mare as Olga Cappelli
1960
- Purple Noon as Signora Gianna
- Madri pericolose as Mattea Tornabuoni
- Les Bonnes Femmes as Madame Louise
- I teddy boys della canzone as Donna Celestina
- Un mandarino per 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
- I prepotenti as Clelia Pinelli
- Serenatella Sciuè Sciuè as Agrippina Scuoffolo
1956
- The Bigamist as Mrs. Masetti / Missis Masetti
- Liebe as Beatrice
- A Mink Coat as Assunta Santini
- I pinguini ci guardano
1955
- Eighteen Year Olds as Signorina Mattei
1954
- Air of Paris as Angela Posi
- Il matrimonio as Anastasia Scingalova, la madre della sposa
- I Sing for You as Zia Bettina
- Totò Seeks Peace as Gemma Torresi
- Storm as Cecilia
- La grande avventura
1953
- Martin Toccaferro
- Madonna delle rose as Donna Filomena
- Good Folk's Sunday as Elvira
- Gioventù alla sbarra as La sorella del giudice
1952
- Toto and the Women as Giovanna Scaparro
- Serenata amara as La madre die Mario
- The Passaguai Family Gets Rich as Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
- Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen as Donna Rosa
- Three Girls from Rome as Madre di Marisa
- Dad Becomes Mom as Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
- È arrivato l'accordatore as Signora Narducci
- Mademoiselle Gobete as Aglae Tricoin
- Stranger on the Prowl
1951
- Cops and Robbers as Giovanna Bottoni
- Teresa as Sra. Russo
- The Affairs of Messalina as Locusta
- Paris Is Always Paris as Elvira de Angelis
- The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue as la nounou
- Beauties in Capri as Cornelia
- La famiglia Passaguai as Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
1950
- Totò Looking for Wife as La zia
- Tomorrow Is Too Late as Signora Berardi
- Sambo as Amalia
- Pact with the Devil as Signora Mola - Giacomo's wife
- Sunday in August as Fernanda Meloni
- Il vedovo allegro as Dolores
- Cavalcata d'eroi as Aurelia
- Il diavolo in convento as Caterina
- Duel Without Honor as Housekeeper
1949
- The Walls of Malapaga as Maria
- Yvonne of the Night as Rudegarda, la padrona del ristorante
- 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
- Signorinella as Iris
1948
- Difficult Years as Rosina Piscitello
- Heart as Mrs. Serra
- Emigrantes as Adele Bordoni
1947
- Flesh Will Surrender as Emilia Canale
- Christmas at Camp 119 as La signora Mancini
- Angelina as Carmela
- The Captain's Daughter as Mrs. Mironova
- To Live in Peace as Corinna
1946
- Rome: Free City as L'affittacamere
- Before Him All Rome Trembled as Nina
- A Day in the Life as Sister Celeste
- Canto, ma sottovoce... as Laura, la cameriera
- Revenge as Un'amica di Adele