Furio Scarpelli

Furio Scarpelli 16 December 1919 28 April 2010 also called Scarpelli was an Italian screenwriter famous for his collaboration on numerous Commedia allitaliana films with Agenore Incrocci forming the duo Age Scarpelli He was the son of journalist Filiberto Scarpelli During his childhood he devoted himself to writing and drawing During World War II he started to work as an illustrator for satire magazines together with Federico Fellini and Ettore Scola and he met Agenore Incrocci better known as Age Furio was born and died in Rome Italy In 1949 he started his famous collaboration with Age as the duo Age Scarpelli writing some of the first Totò successes until 1952 Together with Age he worked on a total of 120 Italian movies These include some of the most famous of all such as Sergio Leones The Good the Bad and the Ugly and Mario Monicellis I soliti ignoti After closing his relationship with Age he wrote several movies with Ettore Scola and the first works of directors such as Francesca Archibugi and Paolo Virzì His third Nomination to Oscar was for Il Postino The Postman written with his son Giacomo He also taught at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia The film Tormenti 2011 adapted from his graphic novel was released shortly after his death Source Article Furio Scarpelli from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30