statement to Deadline<\/a>. \u201cHis loss leaves an unfillable hole in our lives, but his legacy lives on through his children and the five decades of wonderful work he\u2019s left behind. We honor the extraordinary life he led and know there will never be another quite like him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tThe Los Angeles-born and raised Shyer started his career working with Jerry Belson and Garry Marshall on the popular television sitcom, The Odd Couple<\/em>, eventually becoming a head writer for the series. His TV writing credits also include work on Happy Days<\/em> and The Partridge Family<\/em> prior to launching into feature films.<\/p>\n\n\tIn 1977, he received his first feature film credit for Smokey and the Bandit<\/em> starring Burt Reynolds. He later teamed up with Nancy Meyers and Harvey Miller to cowrite 1980\u2019s Private Benjamin<\/em> starring Goldie Hawn. The comedy film became a surprise box office hit, with Shyer, Meyers, and Miller nominated for original screenplay and Hawn nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars.<\/p>\n\n\tShyer and Meyers, who married the year Private Benjamin<\/em> hit theaters, had a fruitful creative partnership, with a string of blockbuster hits. Among them was 1981\u2019s Shyer-directed Baby Boom<\/em> starring Diane Keaton, which the couple cowrote; the Shyer-directed, Meyers cowritten remake of Father of the Bride<\/em> (1991); and its sequel cowritten by the pair and directed by Shyer. Shyer and Meyers also cowrote 1984\u2019s Irreconcilable Differences<\/em>, which Shyer directed. They divorced in 1999. The Meyers-directed The Parent Trap<\/em> (1998) starring Lindsay Lohan, which was cowritten by Meyers, Shyer, and David Swift, was their final collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\tShyer went on to direct 2001\u2019s The Affair of the Necklace<\/em> and 2004\u2019s Alfie <\/em>starring Jude Law. He most recently directed Netflix\u2019s The Noel Diary <\/em>from 2022 and he co-wrote 2023\u2019s Best. Christmas. Ever<\/em>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filmmaker also cowrote the Oscar-nominated Private Benjamin Charles Shyer, director of Father of the Bride and Baby Boom and cowriter of the Oscar-nominated Private Benjamin, died Friday, as Variety reports. He was 83. The cause of death was not disclosed. \u201cIt\u2019s with an indescribably heavy heart that we share the news of our beloved father, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}