NEWS: Actor Peter Boyle Dead at 71

CELEB: Actor Peter Boyle Dead at 71

Peter Boyle, who played Ray Romano's curmudgeon father Frank Barone for ten seasons on Everybody Loves Raymond, has died after a years-long battle with multiple myeloma and heart disease. He was 71.

Boyle's early career featured character turns in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and alongside Robert Redford in The Candidate. He is perhaps best known for his brilliant comic turn in 1974 as the tap-dancing lovesick monster in Young Frankenstien. It was on the set of Young Frankenstien that he met his wife, Loraine Alterman. Beatle John Lennon served as best man at the wedding.

Some of his other film credits include Johnny Dangerously, Outland, Monster's Ball, Scooby Doo 2, and The Santa Clause series. He won an Emmy in 1996 for a guest-starring role in The X-Files.

Now please enjoy Peter Boyle at his finest.

Sad news...this sucks

Sad news. Clip is golden. Voice of an angel.

Holy crap that's sad news!

That 'holy crap' was for you Mr. Boyle. RIP

I think I will cry myself to sleep, with out Peter Boyle Everybody Loves Raymond would have been unwatchable.

R.I.P the Wizard

"it's a free country, we gotta pursuit of happiness thing going on here...but in my fucken cab, dont go busting heads!"

"you should tell 'em to move to california, cause out there if two fags split up, one of em has to pay the other alimony"

"yeah, they're way ahead out there!"

A real talent, sorry he is gone. =(

orhh that's really sad :/
loved the raymond show and he was so fun all the time.

R.I.P. Peter boyle

I will always think of Peter Boyle as Wizard from "Taxi Driver" (don't ask me why)

Amen! He was great in Young Frankenstein and Joe, but I will always remember him as The Wizard.

"I envy you of your youth... Go out, get yourself laid."

Rest easy Wizard.

ahhh i was coming in here to post that clip...he will be truly missed

Peter was always such a class act...he came back home to Philly a few months back, and stopped by my work for an interview about La Salle University. He was so funny and personable, even when you could see how sick he was. I'll miss the guy...

Where the Buffalo Roam,was one of my fav movies .. he will be missed ...good bye Carl Lazlo, Esq.

I saw him on an interview once and despite the narrow minded character he played on ELR, he was a very liberal and openminded guy. Very forward thinker for his generation. Funny guy too. Sad news.

oh yeah, another good young frank clip....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETc7g96ZHZk

peter boyle and a young gene hackman. i laugh everytime he toasts and breaks his mug. haha.

true true true.

He was great, LOVED him in Young Frankenstein. I sure will miss him

thats so sad! RIP.

He had a pretty good run. May he RIP.

I sadly haven't seen Taxi Driver or Young Frankenstein. Haven't watched an episode of Raymond, either, but it didn't interest me from what I've seen.

He had a pretty funny cameo on Mind of Mencia, too.

-TM