“He is no more,” Ryazanov’s grandson Dmitry Troyanovsky told RIA Novosti early Monday.

According to Interfax quoting friend of family, Eldar Ryazanov died due to heart failure.

Over the past year, Ryazanov was hospitalized several times with reported heart problems. On 21 November, the director was hospitalized to one of Moscow clinics.

Eldar Ryazanov, was a film director, screenwriter and actor, most well known for his satirical comedies – “Old Men – Robbers,” “Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia,” “Office Romance,” “Station for Two,” “Garage” and many others.

Born in Samara in November 1927, he graduated with honors from the Soviet State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1950 as a film director.

Ryazanov made documentaries for five years, before taking up employment at Mosfilm Studios in 1955. His first feature film “Karnavalnaya Noch” (Carnival in Moscow, 1956) made him a legend overnight.