Shyer also co-wrote movies like 1998's "The Parent Trap" and 1977's "Smokey and the Bandit." Charles Shyer, who directed hit comedies like Father of the Bride, has died at age 83. A representative for Shyer confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that the filmmaker died on Friday.

Shyer earned an Oscar nomination, alongside his filmmaker ex-wife Nancy Meyers and the late Harvey Miller, for their co-writing efforts on the 1983 war comedy ‘Private Benjamin’

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Hollywood director Charles Shyer has died at the age of 83. The father-of-four, famed for directing the 1991 remake of “Father of the Bride,” died Friday in Los Angeles, his children confirmed in a statement to Variety.