Charles Shyer, who directed hit comedies like Father of the Bride, has died at age 83.

A consultant for Shyer confirmed to Leisure Weekly that the filmmaker died on Friday. A reason for dying was not given.

"It's with an indescribably heavy coronary heart that we share the information of our beloved father Charles Shyer's passing," Shyer's household advised Deadline. "His loss leaves an unfillable gap in our lives, however his legacy lives on via his kids and the 5 many years of fantastic 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."

Born in Los Angeles in 1941 to Hollywood filmmaker Melville Shyer and Lois Delaney, Shyer attended College of California, Los Angeles and labored as an assistant director via the Administrators Guild of America's apprenticeship program. He was an assistant to Odd Couple producers Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson as considered one of his earliest jobs, and he grew to become a author on the present in 1971. He created the short-lived TV comedy Getting Collectively the identical 12 months, and likewise wrote an episode of The Partridge Household.

Shyer's first writing credit score on a theatrical movie got here with 1977's smash hit Smokey and the Bandit. He then penned the Walter Matthau dramedy Home Calls and Jack Nicholson's directorial mission Goin' South in 1978.

Maybe probably the most pivotal mission of Shyer's writing profession got here with 1980's Personal Benjamin. The conflict satire starred Goldie Hawn as Judy Benjamin, a girl who enlists within the U.S. Military, and in the end earned Shyer an Oscar nomination for Greatest Authentic Screenplay. The film additionally marked his first screenplay collaboration with Nancy Meyers, whom he met whereas she was working as a narrative editor at Motown. The co-writers married the identical 12 months Personal Benjamin was launched and went on to make a dozen movies collectively.

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Shyer made his directorial debut with 1984's Irreconcilable Variations, which he co-wrote with Meyers. The movie starred Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Lengthy, and Drew Barrymore in considered one of her first big-screen roles. The identical 12 months, the couple co-wrote Protocol with their Personal Benjamin co-writer, Harvey Miller. In 1986, Shyer and Meyers co-wrote Jumpin' Jack Flash beneath pseudonyms. Shyer returned to the director's chair with 1987's Child Growth, one other gender-conscious comedy he co-wrote with Meyers. Within the movie, Diane Keaton, who went on to collaborate with the couple on a number of tasks, starred as an formidable Manhattan skilled who unexpectedly inherits a distant relative's toddler.

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The couple's subsequent movie, 1991's Father of the Bride, starred Steve Martin and Keaton as a middle-aged couple grappling with the stress of their daughter's marriage ceremony. The film, which was a remake of the 1950 comedy of the identical title, grew to become the most important monetary success of Shyer's directing profession, incomes $129 million on the field workplace. It spawned a sequel, 1995's Father of the Bride Half II, which Shyer additionally directed from a script he wrote with Meyers and which featured all the core forged reprising their roles from the primary movie.

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In between their two Father of the Bride motion pictures, the couple co-wrote As soon as Upon a Crime, and Shyer directed 1994's I Love Bother, a rom-com starring Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte that he additionally co-wrote with Meyers. 4 years later, Shyer co-wrote and produced Meyers' directorial debut, the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap starring Lindsay Lohan.

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Shyer and Meyers divorced in 1999, and Shyer's first mission after their separation was 2001's The Affair of the Necklace, a historic drama starring Hilary Swank that obtained an Oscar nomination for Greatest Costume Design. He then helmed 2004's Alfie, the Jude Regulation–starring remake of the 1966 romance led by Michael Caine. The movie bombed on the field workplace, incomes simply $35 million on a funds of $60 million, and Shyer didn’t direct one other movie till 2022's Christmas rom-com The Noel Diary, which he co-wrote with Rebecca Connor and David Golden.

Shyer and Meyers reunited on 2017's House Once more, the directorial debut of their daughter Hallie Meyers-Shyer. Meyers served as a producer on the movie, whereas Shyer served as second unit director.

Shyer's ultimate function movie credit score got here with 2023's Greatest. Christmas. Ever!, which he co-wrote and executive-produced. He’s survived by his 4 kids.

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