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.
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Ave Ninchi Biography / Wiki
| Name | Ave Ninchi |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Ancona, Italy |
| Date of Birth | 1915-12-14 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 81 |
| Deathday | 1997-11-10 |
Ave Ninchi Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Le motorizzate | Sister Teresa (segment “Carmelitane Sprint”) | 1963-08-15 | Five episodes about women drivers during the economic boom…. |
| Difficult Years | Rosina Piscitello | 1948-12-28 | Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffec… |
| Dad Becomes Mom | Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe | 1952-09-26 | The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them…. |
| Totò cerca moglie | La zia | 1950-03-15 | Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won’t send him another penny until he is married…. |
| Madri pericolose | Mattea Tornabuoni | 1960-06-18 | … |
| Emigrantes | Adele Bordoni | 1948-09-28 | … |
| Beauties in Capri | Cornelia | 1951-11-10 | The love story between Don Camillo’s protégé and Don Violante’s niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests…. |
| I ragazzi dell’Hully Gully | contessa Corinna Salimbeni | 1964-11-09 | … |
| Sambo | Amalia | 1950-01-01 | … |
| La famiglia Passaguai | Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe | 1951-12-20 | When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend … |
| Totò cerca pace | Gemma Torresi | 1954-12-17 | Two widowers decide to get married but their decision is continually hampered by their grandchildren, who are just interested in their inheritance…. |
| La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna | Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe | 1952-03-07 | To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arrang… |
| Mademoiselle Gobete | Aglae Tricoin | 1952-10-04 | A singer and operetta dancer works in a small french town where the authorities want to expel her because of her scandalous conduct and performance. W… |
| Prepotenti più di prima | Clelia Pinelli | 1959-03-11 | Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The par… |
| I prepotenti | Clelia Pinelli | 1958-07-25 | Cesare, from Rome, and Mimì, from Naples, don’t agree with their children marriage, so the young couple runs away from their home…. |
| Il vedovo allegro | Dolores | 1950-06-30 | An artist of variety, known in art with the name of Bebè, is a charlatan in Cannes, in a company with Zallos, a shady type…. |
| Signorinella | Iris | 1949-08-06 | … |
| Il furto è l’anima del commercio!?… | Annunziata Caccavallo | 1971-07-09 | … |
| Le ambiziose | Ines | 1961-02-01 | Thirty girls arrive in a seaside town to participate in a beauty contest. Marina has no ambitions of victory: she only wants to have the sewing machin… |
| Le donne ci tengono assai | Angelica Allegri | 1959-01-30 | … |
| Cops and Robbers | Giovanna Bottoni | 1951-11-29 | Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni… |
| Madonna delle rose | Donna Filomena | 1953-09-12 | A young couple, Renato and Maria, struggle to provide for their young daughter Pia…. |
| Un mandarino per Teo | zia Gaspara | 1960-12-22 | Teo, a young theatre stand in, is offered a faustian pact by the devil: if he pushes a button a Chinese mandarin will die and leave his money to him. … |
| La grande avventura | 1954-01-01 | The adventures of Count Angelo de Marchis as he tries to reach his besieged allies in Rome with much needed funds from England. Can he evade the pursu… | |
| Three Girls from Rome | Madre di Maria | 1952-01-01 | Three gorgeous seamstresses meet on the historic steps of the Piazza de Spagna in Rome to discuss one another’s love lives…. |
| Flesh Will Surrender | Emilia Canale | 1947-09-27 | Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when he met Giulio, a notorious forger who at once set … |
| I teddy boys della canzone | Donna Celestina | 1960-07-16 | … |
| Canto, ma sottovoce… | Laura, la cameriera | 1946-06-13 | … |
| The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue | The Nanny | 1951-11-29 | Having been warned in dreams that Snow White is in danger, the Seven Dwarfs set out to rescue the princess from the evil Prince of Darkness…. |
| Paris Is Always Paris | Elvira de Angelis | 1951-11-15 | A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure,… |
| Eighteen Year Olds | Signorina Mattei | 1955-12-23 | Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with … |
| L’assassino si chiama Pompeo | Doorkeeper Adelina | 1962-01-01 | … |
| I sing for you | Zia Bettina | 1953-01-01 | … |
| Le magnifiche 7 | Margherita | 1961-12-01 | … |
| I due assi del guantone | Adele | 1971-12-02 | Two waiters who work in a restaurant, whose owner is a big boxing fan, pretend one of them is a boxer and the other his manager. The supposed boxer wi… |
| Toto and the Women | Giovanna Scaparro | 1952-12-20 | Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them – in the attic of his house…. |
| Storm | Cecilia | 1954-04-16 | … |
| Murmur of the Heart | Augusta | 1971-04-27 | This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolesce… |
| Il matrimonio | Anastasia Scingalova, la madre della sposa | 1954-02-25 | An Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton Chekhov…. |
| Revenge | Un’amica di Adele | 1946-04-21 | A man comes home from the war and finds both his plant and his family destroyed…. |
| La sposa non può attendere | Evelina | 1949-10-26 | On his way to his own wedding, a young man saves a woman who attempted suicide by jumping into a river and falls for her…. |
| Good Folk’s Sunday | Elvira | 1953-01-25 | In the background of the football match Roma – Napoli different stories intertwine…. |
| Air of Paris | Angela Posi | 1954-09-24 | Victor Le Garrec, a former boxer, runs a gym in Paris while dreaming of finding an aspiring champion who will reach the goals he was never able to ach… |
| The Walls of Malapaga | Maria | 1949-09-19 | A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter…. |
| Una pelliccia di visone | Assunta Santini | 1956-08-21 | A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever…. |
| The Captain’s Daughter | Mrs. Mironova | 1947-10-08 | A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story…. |
| To Live in Peace | Corinna | 1947-03-13 | Vivere in pace is a 1947 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Luigi Zampa…. |
| Walter e i Suoi Cugini | Adele | 1961-04-26 | Walter Chiari as a Pugliese who lives in Milan. He has two cousins ​​identical to him. The two arrive in the city to find work and twist their liv… |
| Gioventù alla sbarra | La sorella del giudice | 1953-03-12 | … |
| I pinguini ci guardano | 1956-03-08 | … | |
| Purple Noon | Signora Gianna | 1960-03-10 | Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there’s more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess…. |
| Il diavolo in convento | Caterina | 1950-01-17 | … |
| The Bigamist | Mrs. Masetti / Missis Masetti | 1956-02-17 | A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently…. |
| Duello senza onore | 1950-01-05 | Bianca, a rich heiress, being an orphan, lives in her palace with her guardian uncle and cousin Olga…. | |
| The Good Girls | Madame Louise | 1960-04-22 | Four attractive young women who work together in an appliance store in Paris spend their free time looking for love and fulfilment with little success… |
| Angelina | Carmela | 1947-11-12 | A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartmen… |
| A Day in the Life | Sister Celeste | 1946-04-05 | Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of t… |
| Christmas at Camp 119 | La signora Mancini | 1947-12-22 | Second World War . Field 119 in California (USA ) . War is long over , but the Italian Prisoners Still waiting to return home , preparing to celebrate… |
| Le tardone | Adelina Borletti (episode “Un delitto quasi perfetto”) | 1964-01-29 | A collection of five episodes dealing with aging women…. |
| Serenata amara | La madre die Mario | 1952-01-01 | … |
| Teresa | Sra. Russo | 1951-04-05 | An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband’s possessive mother…. |
| Before Him All Rome Trembled | Nina | 1946-10-02 | An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome…. |
| Gli altri, gli altri e noi | 1966-10-31 | An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desperate, he goes to sleep in a flop-house, where he … | |
| È arrivato l’accordatore | Signora Narducci | 1952-10-09 | Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happens in the home of some new riches…. |
| Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen | Donna Rosa | 1952-12-25 | … |
| Yvonne of the Night | Rudegarda, la padrona del ristorante | 1949-11-24 | Carlo Rutelli falls in love with the beautiful variety singer Yvonne la Nuit, but his father opposes the wedding. World War I breaks out and Carlo is … |
| Pact with the Devil | Signora Mola – Giacomo’s wife | 1950-01-11 | The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this expensiv… |
| Tomorrow Is Too Late | Signora Berardi | 1950-09-21 | Progressive schoolteachers Landi and Anna have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella and Franco. The two kids are enamored with… |
| Heart | Mrs. Serra | 1948-03-10 | A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of working-class backgrounds, after a novel in diary format by E… |
| Circo equestre Za-bum | 1949-03-11 | … | |
| Hercules in the Valley of Woe | l’indovina Ecubona | 1961-10-19 | Two boxing promoters travel via time machine back to the days of Hercules, who must save them from Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde…. |
| Rome: Free City | L’affittacamere | 1946-12-17 | In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betra… |
| The Affairs of Messalina | Locusta | 1951-12-04 | A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius,… |
| Nights of the Teddy Boys | Sora Nole | 1959-10-03 | An Italian drama directed by Leopoldo Savona…. |
| Lacombe, Lucien | Mme Georges | 1974-01-30 | In Louis Malle’s lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When … |
| House of Cards | Signora Orragi | 1968-09-16 | In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to create a new world order…. |
| I’m Not Worthy of You | Cesira | 1965-04-03 | In the sequel of “In ginocchio da te”, the engagement of Gianni and Carla is threatened by Giorgio…. |
| Sunday in August | Fernanda Meloni | 1950-02-18 | The plot weaves several episodes with several groups of people, Roman families, youth gangs and young love couples, who spend a Sunday at the beach of… |
| Venetian Honeymoon | Yolanda | 1959-02-27 | There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incognito, is said to be in the city. By chance, the el… |
| So In Love | Cuoca Cesira | 1964-12-21 | During his military service, the young singer Gianni Traimonti falls in love with Carla, the marshal’s daughter…. |
| Pulp | Fat Chambermaid | 1972-11-01 | A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta…. |
| Stranger on the Prowl | 1952-03-12 | A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to d… | |
| Scandali al mare | Olga Cappelli | 1961-07-27 | … |
| The Firemen of Viggiù | Gaetana | 1949-04-16 | In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time…. |
| The Nun’s Story | Sister Bernard (uncredited) | 1959-06-18 | After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World W… |
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