Wonderful actor Peter Boyle has died.



Associated Press

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 movies 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.

Hes just obnoxious in a nice way, just for laughs, he said of the character in a 2001 interview. Its 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.

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i liked his character "frank" on ELR.

ELR=Everybody Loves Raymond.

I loved him in Everybody Loves Raymond.
He lived a good life and made many people laugh so I'm sure he will be remembered by many with much fondness.

I've always loved the characters he played.

Awwwww

i'll miss this very talented comic.

WHAT!!!!!????? NO!!!!!

for me he will always be clyde bruckman



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I had no idea he was Frankie in "Young Frankenstein". What a great film. Loved the grumpy and disgruntled but lovable character he played in "Everybody Loves Raymond" too.

sosgemini said:

He was outstanding in Young Frankenstein. RIP

cool how John Lennon was his best man at his wedding

he was great!

Mazerati said:

Really? That's very cool.