Agenore Incrocci

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Agenore Incrocci (4 July 1919 – 15 November 2005), best known as Age, was an Italian screenwriter, considered one of the fathers of the commedia all'italiana[citation needed] as one of the two members of the duo Age & Scarpelli, together with Furio Scarpelli.

Biography

Incrocci was born in

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 United States 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

Divorzio all'italiana
.

As an actor, he took part to

.

He died in Rome in 2005.

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