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21 April 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 05:56 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Comedy writer Sol Saks, who created the 1960s US sitcom Bewitched, has died aged 100.<\/p>\n

He died on Saturday of respiratory failure as a result of pneumonia at a Los Angeles hospital, his wife told the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n

Starring Elizabeth Montgomery as a witch who marries a mortal, Bewitched ran in the US from 1964 to 1972.<\/p>\n

Yet while he wrote the original pilot script, Saks never wrote another episode.<\/p>\n

“He just sat back and took in the royalties,” said Paul Wayne, a longtime friend and writer who worked on the show.<\/p>\n

Saks said his inspiration came from two films: 1942’s I Married a Witch, starring Fredric March and Veronica Lake, and 1958’s Bell Book and Candle, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak.<\/p>\n

“He was pretty honest about the fact it wasn’t a particularly original idea,” Wayne told the Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before Bewitched, Saks wrote for such US radio comedies and TV series as My Favorite Husband, Mr Adams and Eve and I Married Joan.<\/p>\n

He also wrote the screenplay for Cary Grant’s last film, the 1966 comedy Walk Don’t Run.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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