| rdfs:comment | - Peter Lawrence Boyle (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the CBS-TV sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical Frankenstein's Monster in Mel Brooks' horror film spoof Young Frankenstein (1974). Peter, who won an Emmy Award in 1996 for a guest-starring role on the science-fiction drama The X-Files, won praise in both comedic and dramatic parts following his breakthrough performance in the 1970 film Joe.
- Peter Boyle (born on October 18, 1935 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. died on December 12, 2006 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA) is an actor who portrayed Clyde Bruckman in The X-Files.
- Peter Boyle is a British film editor. His work on the film The Hours (2002) was nominated for the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award, and the ACE Eddie. Boyle has been elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors. With over 40 credits to his name, other notable titles include, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), Waterworld (1995), and Quills (2000).
- The tall, imposing, balding Boyle was a familiar face in television and the movies, notably playing key roles in two 1974 hits: Young Frankenstein, in a more substantial role than usual as the sympathetic Monster, and Taxi Driver, as the philosophizing elder cabbie Wizard. Other notable films include Where the Buffalo Roam (as Bill Murray's eccentric lawyer), Hammett, Johnny Dangerously, The Dream Team (as a man mental patient who thinks he's Jesus), Yellowbeard, Malcolm X, While You Were Sleeping, Monster's Ball, and all three Santa Clause movies (as boss Mr. Whittle in the first and Father Time in the sequels).
- Born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Boyle later moved to nearby Philadelphia. Of Irish descent, he was the son of Peter Boyle, Sr., a Philadelphia TV personality from 1951-1963 who, among many other things, played the Western-show host "Chuck Wagon Pete", and hosted the popular afterschool children's program Uncle Pete Presents the Little Rascals, which showed vintage Little Rascals and Three Stooges comedy shorts and Popeye cartoons. Byole attended West Philadelphia Catholic High School. He graduated from La Salle University in Philadelphia in 1957. After graduating from Officer Candidate School in 1959, he was commissioned as an ensign in the United States Navy, but his military career was shortened by a nervous breakdown. Boyle was also a member of the Institute of the Brothers of the Chr
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| abstract | - Born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Boyle later moved to nearby Philadelphia. Of Irish descent, he was the son of Peter Boyle, Sr., a Philadelphia TV personality from 1951-1963 who, among many other things, played the Western-show host "Chuck Wagon Pete", and hosted the popular afterschool children's program Uncle Pete Presents the Little Rascals, which showed vintage Little Rascals and Three Stooges comedy shorts and Popeye cartoons. Byole attended West Philadelphia Catholic High School. He graduated from La Salle University in Philadelphia in 1957. After graduating from Officer Candidate School in 1959, he was commissioned as an ensign in the United States Navy, but his military career was shortened by a nervous breakdown. Boyle was also a member of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, or De La Salle Brothers, a Catholic teaching order, and taught drama at Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh before turning to acting. In New York City, he studied acting with famed acting coach Uta Hagen while working as a postal clerk and a maitre d'. He went on to play Murray the cop in a touring company of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, leaving the tour in Chicago and joining The Second City improv comedy ensemble there. He had a brief scene as the manager of an indoor shooting range in the critically acclaimed 1969 film Medium Cool.
- The tall, imposing, balding Boyle was a familiar face in television and the movies, notably playing key roles in two 1974 hits: Young Frankenstein, in a more substantial role than usual as the sympathetic Monster, and Taxi Driver, as the philosophizing elder cabbie Wizard. Other notable films include Where the Buffalo Roam (as Bill Murray's eccentric lawyer), Hammett, Johnny Dangerously, The Dream Team (as a man mental patient who thinks he's Jesus), Yellowbeard, Malcolm X, While You Were Sleeping, Monster's Ball, and all three Santa Clause movies (as boss Mr. Whittle in the first and Father Time in the sequels). In the TV realm, Boyle starred as Joseph McCarthy in the 1977 TV movie Tailgunner Joe, earning his first Emmy nomination, and went on to guest star on the likes of Cagney & Lacey, NYPD Blue, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (twice as mobster Bill Church), and The X-Files (winning an Emmy as clairvoyant salesman Clyde Bruckman in "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose.") He gained increased exposure as Raymond's cranky father Frank Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005).
- Peter Lawrence Boyle (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the CBS-TV sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical Frankenstein's Monster in Mel Brooks' horror film spoof Young Frankenstein (1974). Peter, who won an Emmy Award in 1996 for a guest-starring role on the science-fiction drama The X-Files, won praise in both comedic and dramatic parts following his breakthrough performance in the 1970 film Joe.
- Peter Boyle (born on October 18, 1935 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA. died on December 12, 2006 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA) is an actor who portrayed Clyde Bruckman in The X-Files.
- Peter Boyle is a British film editor. His work on the film The Hours (2002) was nominated for the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award, and the ACE Eddie. Boyle has been elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors. With over 40 credits to his name, other notable titles include, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), Waterworld (1995), and Quills (2000).
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