Agenore Incrocci
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Agenore Incrocci (July 4, 1914, Brescia – November 15, 2005, Rome), also called Age, was one of the greatest Italian screenwriters.
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 studied law, but never degreed.
He spent the first four World War II years in France, 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 humouristic 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 Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Mario Monicelli's I soliti ignoti and many Totò movies. He also worked on some scripts on his own, the most famous being probably that of Pietro Germi's Divorzio all'italiana.
As an actor, he took part to La terrazza by Ettore Scola (screenplay by Age & Scarpelli, of course) and Ecce Bombo by Nanni Moretti.
