Italo Terzoli (18 January 1924 – 13 May 2008) was an Italian author, playwright, screenwriter, television and radio writer. Born in

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, Terzoli started his career as a playwright in the early 1950s, collaborating first with Carlo Silva and later with Renzo Puntoni a number of musical comedies for popular comedians of the time such as

Walter Chiari Walter Annicchiarico (8 March 1924 – 20 December 1991), known as Walter Chiari , was an Italian stage and screen actor, mostly in comedy roles. Biography Walter Annicchiarico was born in Verona, Italy on 8 March 1924 to a family originally ...

, Sorelle Nava, and the couple Sandra Mondaini and

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. In the 1960s he wrote a number of stage comedies together with

Marcello Marchesi Marcello Marchesi (; 4 April 1912 – 19 July 1978) was an Italian author, screenwriter and film director. He wrote more than 60 films between 1939 and 1977. He also directed six films between 1951 and 1952. He was born in Milan and died in ...

. In 1971 he started a proficuous collaboration with the writer

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; their

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, ''Amore significa'', was a bestseller and got over thirty editions. From 1977, the couple also wrote a series of musicals and comedy plays for Garinei & Giovannini.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Terzoli, Italo 1924 births 2008 deaths Writers from Milan 20th-century Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters Italian dramatists and playwrights Italian television writers Italian radio writers Italian male dramatists and playwrights Male television writers 20th-century Italian male writers