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Father of the Bride and Baby Boom director Charles Shyer dies aged 83
The writer and director worked on a string of successful comedies in the 1980s and 90s, including Private Benjamin and The Parent Trap, frequently with then wife Nancy Meyers
Charles Shyer, the director of Father of the Bride and Baby Boom, who formed a successful comedy film-making partnership with his then wife Nancy Meyers, has died aged 83. The son of studio executive Melville Shyer, he cut his teeth as a writer on the TV series The Odd Couple (starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman), before breaking into movies with a writing credit on Smokey and the Bandit. Photograph: SNAP/Rex FeaturesHis directorial debut, again writing with Meyers, was Irreconcilable Differences, a film industry comedy about marital breakdown, supposedly inspired by the divorce of director Peter Bogdanovich and designer Polly Platt.
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