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Peter Boyle
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The Mothman
12-13-2006, 08:11 AM
he pass away?
Phalanx
12-13-2006, 08:12 AM
Dead?
Aint that a bitch...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Peter Boyle, the actor known for playing everything from a tap-dancing monster in "Young Frankenstein" to the curmudgeonly father in the long-running TV sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond," has died. He was 71.
Boyle died Tuesday evening at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He had been suffering from multiple myeloma and heart disease, said his publicist, Jennifer Plante.
Boyle was beginning to gain notice playing hard-bitten, angry types when he took on the role of the hulking, lab-created monster in Mel Brooks' 1974 send-up of horror films. The movie's defining moment came when Gene Wilder, as scientist Frederick Frankenstein, introduced his creation to an upscale audience. Boyle, decked out in tails, performed a song-and-dance routine to the Irving Berlin classic "Puttin' On the Ritz."
It showed another side of the Emmy-winning actor, one that would be exploited in countless other films and perhaps best in "Everybody Loves Raymond," in which he played incorrigible paterfamilias Frank Barone for 10 years.
"He's just obnoxious in a nice way, just for laughs," he said of the character in a 2001 interview. "It's a very sweet experience having this happen at a time when you basically go back over your life and see every mistake you ever made."
'Hot and angry'
When Boyle tried out for the role opposite series star Ray Romano's Ray Barone, however, he was kept waiting for his audition -- and he was not happy.
"He came in all hot and angry," recalled the show's creator, Phil Rosenthal, "and I hired him because I was afraid of him."
But Rosenthal also noted: "I knew right away that he had a comic presence."
Boyle first came to the public's attention more than a quarter century before. "Joe" was a sleeper hit in which he portrayed the title role, an angry, murderous bigot at odds with the era's emerging hippie youth culture.
Although critically acclaimed, he faced being categorized as someone who played tough, angry types. He broke free of that to some degree as Robert Redford's campaign manager in "The Candidate," and shed it entirely in "Young Frankenstein."
The latter film also led to the actor meeting his wife, Loraine Alterman, who visited the set as a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine. Boyle, still in his monster makeup, quickly asked her for a date.
Disease
12-13-2006, 08:16 AM
no way the Wiz is dead, that breaks my heart, R.I.P
urgeok
12-13-2006, 08:34 AM
thats a shame ... another solid actor gone ..
VampiricClown
12-13-2006, 08:36 AM
R.I.P.....One of my all time favorite actor's. :(
Roderick Usher
12-13-2006, 08:56 AM
A good life, no? 71 years of making people happy.
Haunted
12-13-2006, 08:59 AM
Goddamnit... There's another pisser to add to my day. I loved him so much. Such a versitile actor.
Despare
12-13-2006, 09:00 AM
He looked sick toward the end of Everybody Loves Raymond, I'm surprised he held on as long as he did. He won't be forgotten.
crabapple
12-13-2006, 09:02 AM
My hat is off.
neverending
12-13-2006, 09:45 AM
I first remember noticing him as Wizard in Taxi Driver. He was always someone you could count on for a creative approach to a role.
Vodstok
12-13-2006, 09:55 AM
The first thing i ever saw him in was Young Frankenstein... Damn shame, but at least he had a good long, probably very fun life.
stubbornforgey
12-13-2006, 12:47 PM
awwwww
him and the brother were the only reason
i watched Raymond .
R.I.P
VampiricClown
12-13-2006, 12:50 PM
awwwww
him and the brother were the only reason
i watched Raymond .
R.I.P
Oh wow...I thought I was the only one that did that...
The_Return
12-13-2006, 04:42 PM
awwwww
him and the brother were the only reason
i watched Raymond .
R.I.P
Hell with the brother...Boyle was the only part of that show worth watching.
R.I.P.
Elvis_Christ
12-13-2006, 06:14 PM
R.I.P :(
He was one of the greats. Dug him ever since I saw Taxi Driver.
Spec7ral
12-13-2006, 06:24 PM
RIP
This calls for a beer. The scene with the blind old man in young frankenstien is some of the funniest shit ever.
The Mothman
12-14-2006, 10:47 AM
Thats really a shame. He was the only reason i ever watched everybody loves Raymond. funny guy.
The Mothman
12-14-2006, 10:48 AM
R.I.P :(
He was one of the greats. Dug him ever since I saw Taxi Driver.
who did he play in that?
neverending
12-14-2006, 06:44 PM
who did he play in that?
I first remember noticing him as Wizard in Taxi Driver. He was always someone you could count on for a creative approach to a role.
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monalisa
12-14-2006, 07:05 PM
A good life, no? 71 years of making people happy.
Well said. He will be missed. Hope his passing was peaceful for him.
R.I.P. Peter Boyle.
crabapple
12-14-2006, 07:16 PM
I liked him in "The Shadow" too. Good bit of popcorn fun.
alkytrio666
12-14-2006, 07:18 PM
R.I.P.
He will be missed indeed.