Biography
Charles Richard Shyer (October 11, 1941 – December 27, 2024) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Shyer's films are predominantly comedies, often with a romantic-comedy overtone. His writing and directing credits include Private Benjamin (1980), Irreconcilable Differences (1984), Baby Boom (1987), Father of the Bride (1991), Father of the Bride Part II (1995), The Parent Trap (1998), The Affair of the Necklace (2001), Alfie (2004), The Noel Diary (2022), and Best. Christmas...
Complete Filmography
Best. Christmas. Ever!
2023
Executive Producer, Screenplay
After a twist of fate brings their families together for Christmas, Charlotte sets out to prove her old friend Jackie's life is too good to be true.
The Noel Diary
2022
Screenplay, Director
Cleaning out his childhood home at Christmas, a novelist meets a woman searching for her birth mother. Will an old diary unlock their pasts — and hear...
Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)
2020
Executive Producer
The Banks Family reunites 25 years later for a very special event to benefit World Central Kitchen.
Him and Us
2006
Director
Alfie
2004
Director, Producer, Screenplay
A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.
The Affair of the Necklace
2001
Director, Producer
In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grac...
The Parent Trap
1998
Producer, Second Unit Director, Screenplay
Hallie Parker and Annie James are identical twins who were separated at a young age due to their parents' divorce. Unbeknownst to their parents, the g...
Father of the Bride Part II
1995
Director, Screenplay
Just when George Banks has recovered from his daughter's wedding, he receives the news that she's pregnant ... and that George's wife is expecting too...
I Love Trouble
1994
Director, Screenplay
Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy.
Once Upon a Crime
1992
Screenplay
On their way to Monte Carlo, Monaco, Marilyn and her husband, Neil, meet several other married couples, including Julian and Phoebe, who are traveling...
Father of the Bride
1991
Director, Screenplay
George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 22 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can't...
Baby Boom
1987
Director, Screenplay
J.C. Wiatt is a talented and ambitious New York City career woman who is married to her job and working towards partner at her firm. She has a live-in...
Jumpin' Jack Flash
1986
Screenplay
Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown s...
Protocol
1984
Story
A Washington waitress saves the Emir of Ohtar's life, launching her diplomatic career and a scandal.
Irreconcilable Differences
1984
Writer, Director
Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.
Private Benjamin
1980
Producer, Writer
A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
Goin' South
1978
Screenplay
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War...
House Calls
1978
Writer
Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, ...
Smokey and the Bandit
1977
Screenplay
A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.