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
1972
- Pulp as Fat Chambermaid
1971
- Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?... as Annunziata Caccavallo
- Murmur of the Heart as Augusta
- I due assi del guantone as Adele
1968
- Il sole è di tutti
- House of Cards as Signora Orragi
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
- 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
- Walter e i Suoi Cugini as Adele
- Hercules in the Valley of Woe as l'indovina Ecubona
- Le ambiziose as Ines
- Le magnifiche 7 as Margherita
- Scandali al mare as Olga Cappelli
1960
- Un mandarino per Teo as zia Gaspara
- Purple Noon as Signora Gianna
- Madri pericolose as Mattea Tornabuoni
- The Good Girls as Madame Louise
- 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
- The Bigamist as Mrs. Masetti / Missis Masetti
- I pinguini ci guardano
- A Mink Coat as Assunta Santini
1955
- Eighteen Year Olds as Signorina Mattei
1954
- Il matrimonio as Anastasia Scingalova, la madre della sposa
- Storm as Cecilia
- I Sing for You as Zia Bettina
- Air of Paris as Angela Posi
- Totò Seeks Peace as Gemma Torresi
- La grande avventura
1953
- Good Folk's Sunday as Elvira
- Gioventù alla sbarra as La sorella del giudice
- Madonna delle rose as Donna Filomena
1952
- La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna as Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
- Three Girls from Rome as Madre di Marisa
- Stranger on the Prowl
- Serenata amara as La madre die Mario
- È arrivato l'accordatore as Signora Narducci
- Dad Becomes Mom as Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
- Toto and the Women as Giovanna Scaparro
- Mademoiselle Gobete as Aglae Tricoin
- Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen as Donna Rosa
1951
- Teresa as Sra. Russo
- The Affairs of Messalina as Locusta
- Cops and Robbers as Giovanna Bottoni
- Beauties in Capri as Cornelia
- La famiglia Passaguai as Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
- Paris Is Always Paris as Elvira de Angelis
- The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue as la nounou
1950
- Il diavolo in convento as Caterina
- Tomorrow Is Too Late as Signora Berardi
- Sambo as Amalia
- Sunday in August as Fernanda Meloni
- Pact with the Devil as Signora Mola - Giacomo's wife
- Duel Without Honor as Housekeeper
- Il vedovo allegro as Dolores
- Totò Looking for Wife as La zia
1949
- The Walls of Malapaga as Maria
- Signorinella as Iris
- La sposa non può attendere as Evelina
- The Za-Bum Circus as (segment "Galop finale al circo")
- The Firemen of Viggiù as Gaetana
- Yvonne of the Night as Rudegarda, la padrona del ristorante
1948
- Emigrantes as Adele Bordoni
- Difficult Years as Rosina Piscitello
- Heart as Mrs. Serra
1947
- Flesh Will Surrender as Emilia Canale
- Angelina as Carmela
- To Live in Peace as Corinna
- Christmas at Camp 119 as La signora Mancini
- The Captain's Daughter as Mrs. Mironova
1946
- A Day in the Life as Sister Celeste
- Before Him All Rome Trembled as Nina
- Canto, ma sottovoce... as Laura, la cameriera
- Rome: Free City as L'affittacamere
- Revenge as Un'amica di Adele