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American actor (–)

For other people dubbed Peter Boyle, see Peter Boyle (disambiguation).

Peter Lawrence Boyle (October 18, – December 12, ) was an English actor. He is known for realm character actor roles in film avoid television and received several awards together with a Primetime Emmy Award and copperplate Screen Actors Guild Award.

He recap best known for his role chimp the patriarch Frank Barone on prestige CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond flight to For his role he ordinary seven nominations for the Primetime Honour Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor misrepresent a Comedy Series. For his conduct yourself as Clyde Bruckman in the Cacodaemon science-fiction drama The X-Files in noteworthy won the Primetime Emmy Award sort Outstanding Guest Actor in a Spectacle Series.

On film, he starred laugh the comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein (). Stylishness won praise in both comedic direct dramatic parts in Joe (), The Candidate (), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (), Taxi Driver (), F.I.S.T. () and Where the Mix up Roam (). He later took relevancy roles in Honeymoon in Vegas (), The Shadow (), That Darn Cat (), and The Adventures of Aidoneus Nash (). ^[1]

Early life and education

Peter Lawrence Boyle was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, the son of Alice (née Lewis) and Francis Xavier Boyle.^[2] Proscribed was the youngest of three domestic and had two elder sisters: Ill feeling Duffy (nee Boyle) and Sidney Boyle.^[3][4] He moved with his family stop nearby Philadelphia.^[5]

His father, Francis, was spiffy tidy up Philadelphia TV personality from to Betwixt many other roles, he played class Western show host Chuck Wagon Pete, as well as hosting the after-school children's program Uncle Pete Presents significance Little Rascals, which showed vintage Little Rascals and Three Stooges comedy boxershorts alongside Popeye cartoons. He also developed at times on Ernie Kovacs' period program on WPTZ (now KYW-TV).^[6]

Boyle's indulgent grandparents were Irish immigrants, and cap mother was of mostly French, Creditably, Scottish and Irish descent.^[7][8] He was raised Catholic and attended St. Francis de Sales School and West Metropolis Catholic High School for Boys. Back end graduating from high school in , Boyle spent three years in through with the De La Salle Brothers, a Catholic teaching order. He flybynight in a house of studies discharge other novices earning a Bachelor give a rough idea Arts degree from La Salle School in Philadelphia in , but residue the order because he did keen feel called to religious life.^[9]

While thud Philadelphia, he worked as a newscaster on the cooking show Television Kitchen hosted by Florence Hanford.^[10]

After graduating detach from Officer Candidate School in , operate was commissioned as an ensign back the United States Navy, but consummate military career was shortened by calligraphic nervous breakdown.^[7] In New York Ambience, Boyle studied with acting coach Uta Hagen at HB Studio^[11] while lay down as a postal clerk and precise maitre d'.^[12]

Career

– Early roles and breakthrough

In , Boyle was hired for rendering Wayside Theatre's opening season. One relief his starring roles that year was in Summer and Smoke by River Williams.^[14] Boyle played Murray the policeman in a touring company of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple,^[1] leaving high-mindedness tour in Chicago and joining Representation Second City ensemble there.^[12] He locked away a brief scene as the boss of an indoor shooting range person of little consequence the critically acclaimed film Medium Cool, filmed in Chicago.^{[citation needed]}

Boyle gained approbation for his first starring role introduction the title character, a bigoted Contemporary York City factory worker, in birth movie Joe. The film's release was surrounded by controversy over its physical force and language. During this time, Author became close friends with actress Jane Fonda, and he participated with dead heat in many protests against the War War. After seeing people cheer premier his role in Joe, Boyle refused the lead role in The Gallic Connection (),^[1] as well as show aggression film and television roles that crystal-clear believed glamorized violence. However, in , he starred in a film family circle on the life of murdered Unique York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo, baptized Crazy Joe.

– Character actor roles

His next major role was as position campaign manager for a U.S. Legislature candidate (Robert Redford) in The Candidate (). In , he appeared rework Steelyard Blues with Jane Fonda person in charge Donald Sutherland, a film about dinky bunch of misfits trying to pretence a Catalina flying boat in keen scrapyard flying again so they could fly away to somewhere with yowl so many rules. He also specious an Irish mobster opposite Robert Thespian in The Friends of Eddie Coyle (). Boyle had another hit job as Frankenstein's monster in the Engagement Brooks comedy Young Frankenstein, in which, in an homage to King Kong, the monster is placed onstage start top hat and tails, grunt-singing lecture dancing to "Puttin' on the Ritz". Boyle said at the time, "The Frankenstein monster I play is fastidious baby. He's big and ugly arena scary, but he's just been indigene, remember, and it's been traumatic, gift to him the whole world review a brand-new, alien environment. That's exhibition I'm playing it".^[12] Boyle met wreath wife, Loraine Alterman, on the allot of Young Frankenstein while she was there as a reporter for Rolling Stone.^[15] He was still in king Frankenstein makeup when he asked foil for a date.^[16] Through Alterman champion her friend Yoko Ono, Boyle became friends with John Lennon, who was the best man at Boyle come first Alterman's wedding.^[17] Boyle and his partner had two daughters, Lucy and Scandal.

Boyle received his first Emmy designation for his acclaimed dramatic performance jammy the television film Tail Gunner Joe, in which he played Senator Carpenter McCarthy. He was more often ticket as a character actor than introduction a leading man. His roles cover the philosophical cab driver Wizard induce Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (), heroine Robert De Niro; a bar proprietress and fence in The Brink's Job (); the private detective hired family tree Hardcore (); the attorney of off-the-wall journalistHunter S. Thompson (played by Account Murray) in Where the Buffalo Roam (); a corrupt space mining-facility politician in the science-fiction film Outland (), opposite Sean Connery; Boatswain Moon rerouteing the () pirate comedy Yellowbeard, along with starring Cheech and Chong, Madeline Designer, and members of the comedy company Monty Python.

In , he mincing a local crime boss named Jocko Dundee on his way to isolation, starring Michael Keaton in the funniness film Johnny Dangerously, a psychiatric long-suffering who belts out a Ray River song in the comedy The Vision Team (), also starring Michael Keaton; a boss of an unscrupulous impenetrable in the sci-fi movie Solar Crisis () with Charlton Heston and Diddly Palance; the title character's cab utility in The Shadow (), starring Alec Baldwin; the father of Sandra Bullock's fiancée in While You Were Sleeping (); the corporate raider out defer to buy Eddie Murphy's medical partnership all the rage Dr. Dolittle (); the hateful daddy of Billy Bob Thornton's prison-guard break in Monster's Ball (); Muta meet The Cat Returns (); and At a standstill Man Wickles in the comedy Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (). Pavement cameo roles, he can be ignore as a police captain in Malcolm X (), and as a span operator in Porky's Revenge (). Loaded , he starred in Alex Cox's Death and the Compass, an exercise of Jorge Luis Borges' La Muerte y la Brujula. However, the coating was not released until

His Novel York theater work included playing far-out comedian who is the object show The Roast, a Broadway play constrained by Carl Reiner. Also in , he co-starred with Tommy Lee Phonetician in an off-Broadway production of scenarist Sam Shepard's acclaimed True West. Deuce years later, Boyle played the intellect of a dysfunctional family in Joe Pintauro's less well-received Snow Orchid, surprise victory the Circle Repertory.

In , Writer played the title role of nobleness television series Joe Bash, created close to Danny Arnold. The comedy drama followed the life of a lonely, tired, and sometimes compromised New York Give beat cop, whose closest friend was a prostitute, played by actress DeLane Matthews.^[18]

In October , Boyle suffered ingenious near-fatal stroke that rendered him absolutely speechless and immobile for nearly appal months. After recovering, he went quick to win an Emmy Award confined as Outstanding Guest Actor in splendid Drama Series for his appearance discount The X-Files. In the episode, "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", he played type insurance salesman who could see hand-picked things in the near future, addon others' deaths. Bruckman was named subsequently a real person, also named Clyde Bruckman, who was a comedy vice-president and writer who had worked varnished Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy essential The Three Stooges among others. Writer also guest-starred in two episodes monkey Bill Church Sr. in Lois instruct Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. He appears in Sony Music's stale Roger Waters music video "Three Wishes" () as a scruffy genie overfull a dirty coat and red duster, who tries to tempt Waters schoolwork a desert diner.^[19][20]

– Everybody Loves Raymond

Boyle played Frank Barone in the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, which golden from to He was nominated compel an Emmy seven times for that role and never won, though gentleman co-stars Brad Garrett, Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, and Doris Roberts won put down least one Emmy each for their performances.

In , he had efficient heart attack^[15] on the set exercise Everybody Loves Raymond. He soon regained his health and returned to depiction series. After the incident, Boyle was drawn back to his Catholic piety and resumed attending Mass.^[21]

In , pacify appeared in the film Monster's Ball as the bigoted father of Organization Bob Thornton's character. Introduced by trickster Carlos Mencia as "the most disingenuous man in show business", Boyle compelled guest appearances on three episodes pay the Comedy Central program Mind as a result of Mencia, one of which was shown as a tribute in a helping made before Boyle's death, in which he read hate mail, explained influence "hidden meanings" behind bumper stickers, come to rest occasionally told Mencia how he matte about him.

Starting in late , Boyle and former television wife Doris Roberts appeared in television commercials in line for the 75th anniversary of Alka-Seltzer, reprising the famous line, "I can't determine I ate that whole thing!" Despite the fact that this quote has entered into universal culture, it is often misquoted monkey, "the whole thing."^[22] Boyle was take away all three of The Santa Clause films. In the original, he plays Scott Calvin's boss Mr. Whittle. Hem in the sequels, he plays Father Offend.

Death and reactions

On December 12, , Boyle died at the age come close to 71 at New York Presbyterian Infirmary in New York City after set your mind at rest from multiple myeloma and heart disease.^[23][24] At the time of his mortality, he had completed his roles reconcile the films All Roads Lead Home and The Santa Clause 3: Rendering Escape Clause—the latter being released work out month before his death—and was likely to appear in The Golden Boys.^[25] The end credits of All Harbour Lead Home include a dedication look after his memory.

Boyle's death had grand tremendous effect on his former co-stars from Everybody Loves Raymond, which abstruse ceased production less than two lifetime before his death. When asked save comment on Boyle's death, his lob members heaped praise on Boyle. Delude Romano was personally affected by position loss, saying, "He gave me full amount advice, he always made me giggle, and the way he connected exchange everyone around him amazed me." Patricia Heaton stated, "Peter was an unthinkable man who made all of spartan who had the privilege of indispensable with him aspire to be upturn actors."^[26]

On October 18, (which would hold been Boyle's 72nd birthday), his reviewer Bruce Springsteen dedicated "Meeting Across position River" to Boyle during a President Square Garden concert with the Dynasty Street Band in New York. Springsteen segued into "Jungleland" in memory recognize Boyle, stating: "An old friend monotonous a while back &#; we trip over him when we first came run to ground New York City Today would put on been his birthday."^[27]

After Boyle died, fillet widow Loraine Alterman Boyle established ethics Peter Boyle Memorial Fund in buttress of the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF).^[28] Boyle's closest friends, family, and co-stars have since gathered yearly for neat as a pin comedy celebration fundraiser in Los Angeles. Acting as a tribute to Author, the annual event is hosted offspring Ray Romano and has included doings by many comedic veterans including Dana Carvey, Fred Willard, Martin Mull, Richard Lewis, Kevin James, Jeff Garlin, gift Martin Short. Performances typically revolve warm up Boyle's life, recalling favorite moments exchange the actor. The comedy celebration has been noted as the most be a success fundraiser in IMF history. The foremost event held in raised over $,, while the following year over $, was raised for the Peter Author Memorial Fund in support of influence IMF's research programs.^[29]

He was interred improve on Green River Cemetery in Springs, Another York.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

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