- Agenore Incrocci
Agenore Incrocci (
July 4 ,1914 ,Brescia –November 15 ,2005 ,Rome ), also called "Age", was one of the greatest Italianscreenwriter s.Incrocci was born to a family including several actors, such as his sister Zoe, and spent his youth moving with them to numerous places of Italy. His first work in the cinema world was a dubber for
Mario Monicelli 's first movie, "I ragazzi della Via Paal" (1935. Subsequently he worked for a radio, and in the meantime he started to wrote comic scripts. He also studiedlaw , but never degreed.He spent the first four
World War II years inFrance , prisoner of theFrench Army first and later of theWehrmacht . He managed to escape, however, and fought for a year with theUS Army . Back from the front, he worked again in the radio and for wrote fortheatre andhumouristic magazine.In wrote his first screenplay for "
I due orfanelli ", directed byMario Mattoli . In 1949 started his famous collaboration withFurio Scarpelli , as the duoAge & Scarpelli .Together with Scarpelli, he worked on a total of 120 Italian movies. These include some of the most famous of all, such as
Sergio Leone 's "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ",Mario Monicelli 's "I soliti ignoti" and manyTotò movies. He also worked on some scripts on his own, the most famous being probably that ofPietro Germi 's "Divorzio all'italiana".As an actor, he took part to "
La terrazza " byEttore Scola (screenplay by Age & Scarpelli, of course) and "Ecce Bombo " byNanni Moretti .He died in
Rome in 2005.ee also
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* [http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2005-11-15_1968786.html Incrocci's death]
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