Charles Shyer
Highest Rated: 86% The Parent Trap (1998)
Lowest Rated: 15% The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
Birthday: Oct 11, 1951
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
A screenwriter, director and producer who has had his hand in many film comedies from the late 1970s, Shyer has frequently teamed with his wife Nancy Meyers and screenwriter Alan Mandel. The son of a Directors Guild founder, Shyer got his first credit as a producer (with Mandel) of the TV pilot "Cops" (CBS, 1973), but quickly moved on to writing. He contributed episodes of "All in the Family" and "The Odd Couple," among others. After penning (again with Mandel) the pilot "Lady Luck" (NBC, 1973), he moved into films with the crowd-pleasing Burt Reynolds vehicle "Smokey and the Bandit" (1977, with Mandel and James Lee Barrett). Shyer and Mandel also wrote the script for Jack Nicholson's directorial effort "Goin' South," and was one of the many who penned "House Calls" (both 1978).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Best. Christmas. Ever |
Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2023 |
| 69% | 49% | The Noel Diary |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Woven | Executive Producer | - | 2016 |
| 48% | 51% | Alfie |
Director, Writer, Producer |
$13.4M | 2004 |
| 15% | 42% | The Affair of the Necklace |
Director, Producer |
$430.3K | 2001 |
| 86% | 70% | The Parent Trap |
Writer, Producer |
$66.3M | 1998 |
| 52% | 60% | Father of the Bride Part II | Director | $76.6M | 1995 |
| 22% | 33% | I Love Trouble | Director | $30.8M | 1994 |
| 70% | 70% | Father of the Bride |
Director, Writer |
$89.1M | 1991 |
| 70% | 62% | Baby Boom |
Director, Writer |
$25.4M | 1987 |
| 27% | 58% | Jumpin' Jack Flash | Screenwriter | $24.5M | 1986 |
| 57% | 46% | Irreconcilable Differences |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1984 |
| 83% | 60% | Private Benjamin | Producer | - | 1980 |
| 78% | 85% | Smokey and the Bandit | Writer | - | 1977 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baby Boom | Writer | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Odd Couple |
Director, Writer |
1971 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Getting Together | Writer | 1971 |