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 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 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 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 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, 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.

He died in Rome in 2005.

Agenore Incrocci, de son vrai nom Agilberto Incrocci, dit Age (né le 4 juillet 1919 à Brescia et mort le 15 novembre 2005 d'une crise cardiaque à Rome) est un très prolifique scénariste italien né d'un père autrichien et d'une mère russe. Il cosigna, entre autres, le scénario du film Le Bon, la Brute et le Truand.

Agenore Incrocci, de son vrai nom Agilberto Incrocci, le mythique «Age» fut, avec son complice Furio Scarpelli (son cadet de cinq mois), l'un des plus talentueux et prolifiques scénaristes italiens, qui incarna la comédie à l'italienne.

D'abord auteur de sketches (notamment pour la radio), il cosigna à partir de 1949 quelque 120 films, souvent réalisés par les plus grands. Des Totò de la grande époque à La Pagaille, beaucoup ont marqué l'histoire du cinéma.

Il apparut comme acteur dans La Terrasse de Ettore Scola (dont il était le scénariste) et dans Ecce Bombo de Nanni Moretti (1980).

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