---
name: "Ave Ninchi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ave-ninchi"
fi1m_id: "ave-ninchi"
imdb_id: "nm0632425"
tmdb_id: 40165
wikidata_id: "Q696347"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "14 December 1915"
died: "10 November 1997"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T17:32:15.071458+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ave Ninchi

## Identity

Ave Ninchi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ave-ninchi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ave-ninchi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0632425
- **TMDB ID:** 40165
- **Wikidata ID:** Q696347
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ave_Ninchi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q696347, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0632425/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/40165

Actor. Born 14 December 1915 in Ancona, Italy. Died 10 November 1997.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 14 December 1915, Ancona, Italy
- **Died:** 10 November 1997
- **Also known as:** Аве Нинки
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 84 (1), 1970s 61 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ave_Ninchi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q696347, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0632425/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/40165

## Biography

Ave Ninchi was an Italian actress who appeared in character roles on stage, in over 90 feature films and on television. She was born in Ancona, Italy, and trained at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica in Rome.

Her film credits include *Purple Noon* (1960) as Signora Gianna, *Murmur of the Heart* (1971) as Augusta, *Lacombe, Lucien* (1974) as Mme Georges, *Les Bonnes Femmes* (1960) as Madame Louise and *Pulp* (1972) as the fat chambermaid. She also appeared in several films with Totò and Aldo Fabrizi. Ninchi's television work peaked in the 1960s and 1970s. She was the mother of actress Marina Ninchi.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these

- *Murmur of the Heart* (1971), Fi1m 61, as Augusta — [page](https://film.one/film/murmur-of-the-heart.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *The Nun's Story* (1959), Fi1m 84, as Sister Bernard (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-nuns-story.md)

## Complete filmography (97)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *SuperTotò* (1980), Actor
- *Nel mondo di Alice* (1974), series, as La regina di cuori
- *Lacombe, Lucien* (1974), as Mme Georges
- *Le fiabe dell'albero* (1974), series, as Narratrice
- *Pulp* (1972), as Fat Chambermaid
- *I due assi del guantone* (1971), as Adele
- *Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...* (1971), as Annunziata Caccavallo
- *Murmur of the Heart* (1971), as Augusta — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/murmur-of-the-heart.md)
- *House of Cards* (1968), as Signora Orragi
- *Il sole è di tutti* (1968), Actor
- *Gli altri, gli altri e noi* (1966), as Shop owner
- *I'm Not Worthy of You* (1965), as Cesira
- *So In Love* (1964), as Cuoca Cesira
- *I ragazzi dell'Hully Gully* (1964), as contessa Corinna Salimbeni
- *Le tardone* (1964), as Adelina Borletti (episode "Un delitto quasi perfetto")
- *Cleopazza* (1964), as Madre di Gabriella
- *Le motorizzate* (1963), as Sister Teresa (segment "Carmelitane Sprint")
- *Gli italiani e le donne* (1962), as la moglie di Cesare
- *L'assassino si chiama Pompeo* (1962), as Doorkeeper Adelina
- *Le magnifiche 7* (1961), as Margherita
- *Hercules in the Valley of Woe* (1961), as l'indovina Ecubona
- *Walter e i Suoi Cugini* (1961), as Adele
- *Scandali al mare* (1961), as Olga Cappelli
- *Le ambiziose* (1961), as Ines
- *A Mandarin for Teo* (1960), as zia Gaspara
- *Madri pericolose* (1960), as Mattea Tornabuoni
- *I teddy boys della canzone* (1960), as Donna Celestina
- *Les Bonnes Femmes* (1960), as Madame Louise
- *Purple Noon* (1960), as Signora Gianna
- *Nights of the Teddy Boys* (1959), as Sora Nole
- *The Nun's Story* (1959), as Sister Bernard (uncredited) — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-nuns-story.md)
- *Prepotenti più di prima* (1959), as Clelia Pinelli
- *Venetian Honeymoon* (1959), as Yolanda
- *Le donne ci tengono assai* (1959), as Angelica Allegri
- *I prepotenti* (1958), as Clelia Pinelli
- *Serenatella Sciuè Sciuè* (1958), as Agrippina Scuoffolo
- *Liebe* (1956), as Beatrice
- *A Mink Coat* (1956), as Assunta Santini
- *I pinguini ci guardano* (1956), Actor
- *The Bigamist* (1956), as Mrs. Masetti / Missis Masetti
- *Eighteen Year Olds* (1955), as Signorina Mattei
- *Totò Seeks Peace* (1954), as Gemma Torresi
- *Air of Paris* (1954), as Angela Posi
- *Storm* (1954), as Cecilia
- *I Sing for You* (1954), as Zia Bettina
- *Il matrimonio* (1954), as Anastasia Scingalova, la madre della sposa
- *La grande avventura* (1954), Actor
- *Martin Toccaferro* (1953), Actor
- *Madonna delle rose* (1953), as Donna Filomena
- *Gioventù alla sbarra* (1953), as La sorella del giudice
- *Good Folk's Sunday* (1953), as Elvira
- *Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen* (1952), as Donna Rosa
- *Toto and the Women* (1952), as Giovanna Scaparro
- *Serenata amara* (1952), as La madre die Mario
- *È arrivato l'accordatore* (1952), as Signora Narducci
- *Mademoiselle Gobete* (1952), as Aglae Tricoin
- *Dad Becomes Mom* (1952), as Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
- *Stranger on the Prowl* (1952), Actor
- *The Passaguai Family Gets Rich* (1952), as Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
- *Three Girls from Rome* (1952), as Madre di Marisa
- *La colpa di una madre* (1952), as Rosa
- *La famiglia Passaguai* (1951), as Margherita, moglie di Giuseppe
- *The Affairs of Messalina* (1951), as Locusta
- *Cops and Robbers* (1951), as Giovanna Bottoni
- *The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue* (1951), as la nounou, The Nanny
- *Paris Is Always Paris* (1951), as Elvira de Angelis
- *Beauties in Capri* (1951), as Cornelia
- *Teresa* (1951), as Sra. Russo
- *Sambo* (1950), as Amalia
- *Tomorrow Is Too Late* (1950), as Signora Berardi
- *Il vedovo allegro* (1950), as Dolores
- *Cavalcata d'eroi* (1950), as Aurelia
- *Totò Looking for Wife* (1950), as La zia
- *Sunday in August* (1950), as Fernanda Meloni
- *Il diavolo in convento* (1950), as Caterina
- *Pact with the Devil* (1950), as Signora Mola - Giacomo's wife
- *Duel Without Honor* (1950), as Housekeeper
- *Yvonne of the Night* (1949), as Rudegarda
- *La sposa non può attendere* (1949), as Evelina
- *The Walls of Malapaga* (1949), as Maria
- *Signorinella* (1949), as Iris
- *The Firemen of Viggiù* (1949), as Gaetana
- *The Za-Bum Circus* (1949), as (segment "Galop finale al circo")
- *I peggiori anni della nostra vita* (1949), Actor
- *Difficult Years* (1948), as Rosina Piscitello
- *Emigrantes* (1948), as Adele Bordoni
- *Heart* (1948), as Mrs. Serra
- *Christmas at Camp 119* (1947), as La signora Mancini
- *Angelina* (1947), as Carmela
- *The Captain's Daughter* (1947), as Mrs. Mironova
- *Flesh Will Surrender* (1947), as Emilia Canale
- *To Live in Peace* (1947), as Corinna
- *Rome: Free City* (1946), as L'affittacamere
- *Before Him All Rome Trembled* (1946), as Nina
- *Canto, ma sottovoce...* (1946), as Laura, la cameriera
- *Revenge* (1946), as Un'amica di Adele
- *A Day in the Life* (1946), as Sister Celeste

## Gallery

- ![Italian actress Ave Ninchi cooking.](https://film.one/media/person/1240016/gallery-ee0dc9c58c0c.jpg) Italian actress Ave Ninchi cooking. — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Ave_Ninchi_73.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Aldo Fabrizi e Ave Ninchi in una scena del film italiano Papà diventa mamma (1952)](https://film.one/media/person/1240016/gallery-3bc3068daf35.png) Aldo Fabrizi e Ave Ninchi in una scena del film italiano Papà diventa mamma (1952) — Film diretto da Aldo Fabrizi e prodotto da Alfa Film, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Pap%C3%A0_diventa_mamma_%281952%29_Aldo_Fabrizi_e_Ave_Ninchi.png/1280px-Pap%C3%A0_diventa_mamma_%281952%29_Aldo_Fabrizi_e_Ave_Ninchi.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ave Ninchi](https://film.one/media/person/1240016/gallery-5fd090b963df.png) Ave Ninchi — Ave_Ninchi_-1950.png: Gawain78 at the Italian Wikipedia project.
derivative work: Cavarrone, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Ave_Ninchi_-1950_cropped.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ave Ninchi e Alberto Sordi in una scena del film (1952)](https://film.one/media/person/1240016/gallery-b24209049a21.jpg) Ave Ninchi e Alberto Sordi in una scena del film (1952) — Duilio Coletti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/%C3%88_arrivato_l%27accordatore_-_Sordi_Ninchi.jpg/1280px-%C3%88_arrivato_l%27accordatore_-_Sordi_Ninchi.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ave Ninchi e Gino Bechi in una scena del film italiano Signorinella (1949).](https://film.one/media/person/1240016/gallery-f8b7121edaaf.png) Ave Ninchi e Gino Bechi in una scena del film italiano Signorinella (1949). — Mario Mattòli (director), Aldo Tonti (cinematographer), Astoria (production)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Signorinella_%281949%29_Ave_Ninchi_e_Gino_Bechi.png/1280px-Signorinella_%281949%29_Ave_Ninchi_e_Gino_Bechi.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Aldo Fabrizi e Ave Ninchi in una scena del film italiano La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna (1952)](https://film.one/media/person/1240016/gallery-d89a159aa4fd.png) Aldo Fabrizi e Ave Ninchi in una scena del film italiano La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna (1952) — Film diretto da Aldo Fabrizi e prodotto da Alfa Film, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/La_famiglia_Passaguai_fa_fortuna_%281952%29_Aldo_Fabrizi_e_Ave_Ninchi.png/1280px-La_famiglia_Passaguai_fa_fortuna_%281952%29_Aldo_Fabrizi_e_Ave_Ninchi.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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