Gayle S. Maffeo, producer of “Roseanne” and “Home Improvement”, has died at age 81.

Gail Maffeo, a three-time Emmy-nominated producer who worked on the show’s first season. rosaana and eight seasons of another ABC show starring Tim Allen home improvement, died. He was 81 years old.

Maffeo died Friday at his Los Angeles home after a brief battle with cancer, his daughter Laura said.

Maffeo produced specials in the 1960s and 1970s, starring Frank Sinatra, Jack Benny and George Burns, before turning to sitcoms that included Nell Carter. Give me some time!dabney coleman buffalo beakMary Tyler Moore mayor, the class leader s open all night.

He served as Senior Vice President of Television for Matt Williams and David McFadze’s Wind Dancer Productions, where he was a producer. rosaana In 1988-89 home improvement from 1991 to 1999 and other shows like Carol Burnett’s carol and companyby Dan Aykroyd man’s soul, thunder alley s Friends.

Maffeo, Williams, McFadzean and others shared Emmy nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series for their work. home improvement But was defeated in 1992-94 brown murphy, Seinfeld s phrases in consecutive years.

Gail Arden Sickinger, the second of three children, was born on April 29, 1941, in Evanston, Illinois. After her father Kenneth died of leukemia, her mother Virginia remarried and the family moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and then to Darien, Connecticut.

In 1961, he received an Associate of Arts degree from Centenary College of New Jersey and then began a career in programming at CBS in New York. He worked as a script supervisor. The spectacle of Sid Caesar s Show Perry Como and served as Benny’s associate producer for six years until his death in December 1974.

Maffeo founded and served on the board of the Producers Guild of America and was a member of the DGA, Women in Film, the Hollywood Radio and Television Society, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the PGA.

She leaves her partner, Kenneth; children Laura and Kenny; daughter-in-law Elizabeth; and grandson Dante.