Charles Shyer, who directed "Father of the Bride" and teamed up with his ex-wife Nancy Meyers for a string of hit movies including "Private Benjamin" and "Baby Boom," has died at the age of 83.

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. "It's with an indescribably heavy heart that we share the news of our beloved father,

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’