Oscar nominated screenwriter, director, and producer Charles Shyer whose movies embrace Private Benjamin, Child Increase, and the 1991 remake of Father Of The Bride and its 1995 sequel Father Of The Bride II died Friday. No reason for dying was given. He was 83.
The Meyers-Shyer household shared this assertion with Deadline: “It’s with an indescribably heavy coronary heart that we share the information of our beloved father, Charles Shyer’s passing. His loss leaves an unfillable gap in our lives, however his legacy lives on by means of his youngsters and the 5 a long time 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.”
Shyer’s Oscar nomination, in addition to a WGA awards win, got here for the unique screenplay for 1980’s comedy hit, Non-public Benjamin starring Goldie Hawn which he co-wrote with Nancy Meyers and Harvey Miller. His subsequent few initiatives would see him teamed with Meyers, not solely professionally but in addition personally as they married in 1990 and would go on to co-write Irreconcilable Variations starring Ryan O’Neal, Shelley Lengthy and Drew Barrymore, Child Increase starring Diane Keaton, Father Of The Bride I and II with Steve Martin and Keaton, and 1994’s I Love Hassle starring Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts. The entire latter movies have been directed by Shyer because the couple would grow to be some of the prolific teamings for comedy within the enterprise up till their divorce in 1999 shortly after writing and producing the 1998 profitable remake of Disney’s The Dad or mum Entice which starred a younger Lindsay Lohan within the roles of twins attempting to carry their mother and father again collectively. Meyers took the directing reins on that one, and after their divorce in 1999 Shyer would set off on his personal directing and producing the 2001 interval piece The Affair Of The Necklace starring Hilary Swank, and the 2004 remake of Alfie with Jude Legislation within the title position of the movie written, directed and produced by Shyer. His most up-to-date credit embrace writing and directing the 2022 Netflix movie The Noel Diary. and as co-writer and producer of the 2023 vacation movie, Greatest Christmas Ever!
Earlier writing credit embrace 1977’s Smokey And The Bandit; 1978’s Home Calls which earned him a Greatest Unique Screenplay WGA nomination, and Goin’ South which starred Jack Nicholson. He additionally shared Story By credit score with Meyers and Miller on the 1984 Hawn car, Protocol which had a screenplay credited to Buck Henry.
A Los Angeles native, Shyer was virtually born into the enterprise because the son of Lois Delaney and Melville Shyer, a manufacturing government and movie director who labored with D.W. Griffith and was one of many founders of the Administrators Guild Of America. After going to UCLA he gained a DGA apprenticeship however quickly segued into writing after changing into an assistant to Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson who have been producing the hit TV sequence, The Odd Couple, later changing into head author and affiliate producer.
Survivors embrace 4 youngsters inlcuding filmmaker Hallie Meyers-Shyer.
