Agenore Incrocci (4 July 1919 – 15 November 2005), best known as Age, was an Italian screenwriter, considered one of the fathers of the ''

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'' as one of the two members of the duo

Age & Scarpelli Age & Scarpelli () is the stage name used by the pair of Italian screenwriters Agenore Incrocci (1914–2005) and Furio Scarpelli (1919–2010). Together, they wrote the script for about a hundred movies, mainly satirical comedies. The duo start ...

, together with Furio Scarpelli.

Biography

Incrocci was born in

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, 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

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for Mario Monicelli's 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

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, but without graduating. He spent the first four years of

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, as a prisoner of the

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first and, later, of the

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. He managed to escape, however, and fought for a year with the

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. Back from the front, he worked again in the radio and for wrote for

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and

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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

. 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 ''

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'', Mario Monicelli's '' I soliti ignoti'' and many

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movies. He also worked on some scripts on his own, such as 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 Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti (; born 19 August 1953) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. His films have won accolades including a Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for ''The Son's Room'', a Silver Bear at the ...

. He died in

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in 2005.

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Biography

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