His mother, Luisa Delucchi, though Argentine by birth descended from Genoan immigrants and his father, Santo Discépolo was a musician from Naples.

After his father died in 1906, he debuted in a play by Félix Alberto de Zavalía but quickly got bored with the repetitive performance required for acting.

[1] His first play Entre el hierro he offered to a friend, Pablo Podestá, who agreed to debut it; it was a resounding success.

[1] The style is not based on a Spanish tradition, but rather an Italian one and uses passion and jealousy mixed with domestic conflict and comic irony in a tragic satire approaching melodrama,[3] but a very important element is usually that the exterior or environmental aspects are in total disharmony with the internal or human emotional aspects of the work.

[1] Relojero would be his last written play,[2] though he did two screenplays and authored a script in the late 1930s and early 1940s: Mateo (1937), Giácomo (1939) and En la luz de una estrella (1941).