Luciano Vincenzoni, Italian screenwriter who worked on ‘Man with No Name’ trilogy, dies at 87

Luciano Vincenzoni, the Italian screenwriter who co-wrote two films in the famous Man with No Name trilogy, has died. He was 87-years-old.

Federico Vincenzoni, one of his grandsons, said that the cause of death was cancer, reports The New York Times. Vincenzoni died on Sunday in Rome.

IMDb lists 70 credits for Vincenzoni, dating back to 1956. Some of his early titles include Marriage Italian Style director Pietro Gerimi’s Seduced and Abandoned (1964) and Dino De Laurentiis’ The Best of Enemies (1962).

But the world knows him best for co-writing the last two films in Sergio Leone’s Man With No Name films. Vincenzoni co-wrote both For A Few Dollars More and the epic The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, bringing a sense of comedy and irony that A Fistfull of Dollars missed. After those two films were successes, he continued to work on Italian spaghetti Westerns.

According to Variety, he also worked with Billy Wilder on his 1972 comedy Avanti! and with Rene Clement on 1975’s Babysitter. He also worked on 1986’s Raw Deal with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

He is survived by his son, a daughter and three grandchildren.

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