Agenore Incrocci

Agenore Incrocci 4 July 1919 15 November 2005 best known as Age was an Italian screenwriter considered one of the fathers of the commedia allitaliana as one of the two members of the duo Age Scarpelli together with Furio Scarpelli Incrocci was born in Brescia into 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 Monicellis first movie I ragazzi della Via Paal 1935 Subsequently he worked for a radio and in the meantime he started writing comic scripts He also studied law but without graduating He spent the first four years of World War II in France as a prisoner of the French Army first and later of the Wehrmacht He managed to escape however and fought for a year with the US Army Back from the front he worked again in the radio and for wrote for theatre and humour magazine In wrote his first screenplay for I due orfanelli directed by Mario Mattoli In 1949 started his famous collaboration with Furio Scarpelli as the duo Age 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 Leones The Good the Bad and the Ugly Mario Monicellis I soliti ignoti and many Totò movies He also worked on some scripts on his own such as that of Pietro Germis Divorzio allitaliana As an actor he took part to La terrazza by Ettore Scola screenplay by Age Scarpelli of course and Ecce Bombo by Nanni Moretti He died in Rome in 2005