Filmmaker additionally cowrote the Oscar-nominated Personal Benjamin
Charles Shyer, director of Father of the Bride and Child Growth and cowriter of the Oscar-nominated Personal Benjamin, died Friday, as Selection stories. He was 83. The reason for demise was not disclosed.
“It’s with an indescribably heavy coronary heart that we share the information of our beloved father, Charles Shyer’s passing,” his household stated in a assertion to Deadline. “His loss leaves an unfillable gap in our lives, however his legacy lives on via his youngsters and the 5 many years of great work he’s left behind. We honor the extraordinary life he led and know there’ll by no means be one other fairly like him.”
The Los Angeles-born and raised Shyer began his profession working with Jerry Belson and Garry Marshall on the favored tv sitcom, The Odd Couple, finally changing into a head author for the collection. His TV writing credit additionally embrace work on Completely happy Days and The Partridge Household previous to launching into function movies.
In 1977, he obtained his first function movie credit score for Smokey and the Bandit starring Burt Reynolds. He later teamed up with Nancy Meyers and Harvey Miller to cowrite 1980’s Personal Benjamin starring Goldie Hawn. The comedy movie turned a shock field workplace hit, with Shyer, Meyers, and Miller nominated for authentic screenplay and Hawn nominated for Greatest Actress on the Oscars.
Shyer and Meyers, who married the yr Personal Benjamin hit theaters, had a fruitful inventive partnership, with a string of blockbuster hits. Amongst them was 1981’s Shyer-directed Child Growth starring Diane Keaton, which the couple cowrote; the Shyer-directed, Meyers cowritten remake of Father of the Bride (1991); and its sequel cowritten by the pair and directed by Shyer. Shyer and Meyers additionally cowrote 1984’s Irreconcilable Variations, which Shyer directed. They divorced in 1999. The Meyers-directed The Father or mother Lure (1998) starring Lindsay Lohan, which was cowritten by Meyers, Shyer, and David Swift, was their closing collaboration.
Shyer went on to direct 2001’s The Affair of the Necklace and 2004’s Alfie starring Jude Legislation. He most not too long ago directed Netflix’s The Noel Diary from 2022 and he co-wrote 2023’s Greatest. Christmas. Ever.
