Although Scarpelli received three Oscar nominations for best screen writing for "The Organizer" (1980s), "Casanova" (1970),  "Il Postino" ("The Postman)" (1995), Scarpelli is probably best known for "Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo" ("The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"), the spaghetti-western classic directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood.

Oscar-nominated screenwriter
Furio Scarpelli, 90, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter who co-wrote some of the best Italian comedies of the post-war period and who ventured into the spaghetti-western genre with the "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," died Wednesday at his home in Rome, his family said.

He had long suffered from heart problems.

During a decades-long, prolific partnership with Age, a screenwriter whose given name was Agenore Incrocci, Scarpelli co-wrote some of Italy's finest movies after World War II, including the iconic comedy "Big Deal on Madonna Street."

The writers' sense of humor and an unforgiving display of the vices of Italian people became the pair's trademark, and made for memorable roles and lines for actors such as Marcello Mastroianni and Vittorio Gassman.

The pair also wrote "Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo" ("The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"), the spaghetti-western classic directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood.

Age, who died in 2005, and Scarpelli received two Oscar nominations for best screenwriting in the 1960s, for "The Organizer" and "Casanova '70." In 1995 Scarpelli received another nomination for "Il Postino" ("The Postman"), written with his son Giacomo.
 

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