The comedy scriptwriter who ensured the success of Morecambe and Wise with his witty one-liners has died at the age of 82.
Award-winning performer and writer Eddie Braben was known as the third man behind the hit comedy TV show Morecambe and Wise.
His manager Norma Farnes said Braben, who also wrote for Ken Dodd, David Frost and Ronnie Corbett and lived with his wife Dee in North Wales, died following a short illness.
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Ms Farnes said: 'The writer Eddie Braben, the third man behind the success of Morecambe and Wise, died this morning at the age of 82 after a short illness.
'It was Billy Cotton Jnr at the BBC who recognised the brilliance of Eddie's writing was the ideal marriage that would guarantee the success of Morecambe and Wise.
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Ms Farnes added: 'Eddie was a very humble man, a very quiet man and a very private man. He had a lot of integrity, which is in short supply in this business.
'I have to say - and he would have disagreed with this - that writing came easy to him, even on bad days, when he was writing Christmas shows for Eric and Ernie and he was under great pressure.
