Furio Scarpelli

Known for WritingBorn 1919-12-16Died 2010-04-28Rome, Italy

Furio Scarpelli (16 December 1919 – 28 April 2010), also called Scarpelli, was an Italian screenwriter, famous for his collaboration on numerous Commedia all'italiana films with Agenore Incrocci, forming the duo Age & Scarpelli. He was the son of journalist Filiberto Scarpelli. During his childhood he devoted himself to writing and drawing. During World War II, he started to work as an illustrator for satire magazines, together with Federico Fellini and Ettore Scola, and he met Agenore Incrocci, better known as "Age". Furio was born and died in Rome, Italy. In 1949, he started his famous collaboration with Age as the duo Age & Scarpelli, writing some of the first Totò successes until 1952. Together with Age, 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 and Mario Monicelli's I soliti ignoti. After closing his relationship with Age, he wrote several movies with Ettore Scola, and the first works of directors such as Francesca Archibugi and Paolo Virzì. His third Nomination to Oscar was for Il Postino: The Postman, written with his son Giacomo. He also taught at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. The film Tormenti (2011), adapted from his graphic novel, was released shortly after his death. Source: Article "Furio Scarpelli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.Read more

Movies & web series

Il principe fusto

All in That Night

Cinema of yesteryear

Ivan, il figlio del diavolo bianco

L'eroe sono io

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

We All Loved Each Other So Much

Un inverno freddo freddo

The Postman

Position Wanted

The Great War

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Peccato di castità

A Mink Coat

Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!

I tre corsari

The Wicked

For Love and Gold

The Family

The Band of Honest Men

Seduced and Abandoned

Everybody Go Home!

Ovosodo

The Organizer

Mafioso

March on Rome

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

Without Family

La buona battaglia – Don Pietro Pappagallo

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

Unfair Competition

Come Home and Meet My Wife

Opopomoz

The Monsters

The Police Commissioner

The Terrace

The Dinner

Brancaleone at the Crusades

A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)

In the Name of the Italian People

Le Bal

Totó in color

Love and Larceny

On the Tiger's Back

The Law Is the Law

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians

The New Monsters

Doctor and the Healer