Carla Lane died on May 31, 2016.
She was an English television writer.
Ms Lane was responsible for several successful sitcoms, including The Liver Birds (co-creator, 1969–78), Butterflies (1978–82), and Bread (1986–91).
Lane wrote short stories and radio scripts, in the 1960s.
Carla’s first successes came in collaboration with Myra Taylor, whom she had met at a writers’ workshop in Liverpool, before she embarked on a solo career.
In the past, Herself and Taylor often meet at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool city centre to write.
Apparently she said she used a pseudonym, Carla Lane, because of her modesty about revealing that she was a writer.
Lane died at Stapley nursing home in Liverpool.
Carla Lane passed away at 87 yrs old.