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