Charles Shyer, the director of Father of the Bride and Child Increase, who shaped a profitable comedy film-making partnership along with his then spouse Nancy Meyers, has died aged 83. His household confirmed his loss of life in a press release to Deadline, and his daughter, film-maker Hallie Meyers-Shyer, instructed the Hollywood Reporter he died in hospital in Los Angeles “after a short sickness”.
Shyer had a hand in a string of profitable comedies revamped 4 many years, typically together with Meyers, whom he married in 1980. The son of studio government Melville Shyer, he reduce his enamel as a author on the TV collection The Odd Couple (starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman), earlier than breaking into motion pictures with a writing credit score on Smokey and the Bandit. He co-wrote the Goldie Hawn comedy Personal Benjamin with Myers and his fellow Odd Couple author Harvey Miller. Directed by Howard Zieff, Personal Benjamin was an enormous hit on its launch in 1980, incomes Shyer an Oscar nomination and enabling him to maneuver into the director’s chair.
His directorial debut, once more writing with Meyers, was Irreconcilable Variations, a movie business comedy about marital breakdown, supposedly impressed by the divorce of director Peter Bogdanovich and designer Polly Platt. Shyers adopted this up in 1987 with Child Increase, an archetypal yuppie comedy, as soon as once more co-written with Meyers, that includes Diane Keaton as a high-flying government who takes on an orphaned toddler.
By now an business powerhouse, Shyer and Meyers collaborated on a remake of the hit 1950 comedy Father of the Bride, with Steve Martin within the function beforehand performed by Spencer Tracy. It was an enormous success in 1991, and Shyer additionally directed its 1995 follow-up, Father of the Bride Half II, a remake of the unique’s sequel.
In 1998 Meyers made her directorial debut with Dad or mum Entice, one other remake of successful comedy, which made a star of its lead Lindsay Lohan in a double function. Shyer co-wrote and produced it however it will be their final movie collectively; the pair divorced in 1999 and Meyers went on to a stellar directing profession of her personal, with movies together with One thing’s Gotta Give, What Ladies Need and The Vacation epitomising a sure type of “beige stylish”.
In 2001 Shyer directed The Affair of the Necklace, set in 18th-century France and starring Hilary Swank, and in 2004 took cost of a remake of the Sixties Michael Caine comedy Alfie, starring Jude Legislation. That was Shyer’s final function for almost 20 years, however in 2022 Netflix launched Christmas romcom The Noel Diary, and the next yr he produced and co-wrote Finest. Christmas. Ever!
Shyer was married thrice: to Diana Ewing (between 1969 and 1974), Meyers (between 1980 and 1999), and Deborah Lynn (between 2004 and 2009), and had 4 kids, together with Meyers-Shyer, who directed the 2024 Michael Keaton comedy Goodrich.
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