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  • WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 13 2006 6:00 PM

Actor Peter Boyle Dead at 71

Submitted by SteveIsaacs

Edited by erin_broadley

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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.

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thefuneralof

thefuneralof

I'm lost
October 2003

DEC 13, 2006 06:05 PM

Sad news...this sucks

ThePowerOfBauer

ThePowerOfBauer

Australia
August 2006

DEC 13, 2006 06:06 PM

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

ninjatoes

ninjatoes

Newport, KY
August 2005

DEC 13, 2006 06:13 PM

Holy crap that's sad news!

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

elk_pop

elk_pop

Reno, NV
April 2005

DEC 13, 2006 06:14 PM

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

futuramagoo

futuramagoo

Canada
March 2005

DEC 13, 2006 06:18 PM

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!"

felix7

felix7

Greenville, SC
March 2003

DEC 13, 2006 06:27 PM

A real talent, sorry he is gone. =(

DMminion

DMminion

Denmark
July 2006

DEC 13, 2006 06:35 PM

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

R.I.P. Peter boyle

Kes

Kes

USA
August 2006

DEC 13, 2006 06:46 PM

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

mmagbee

mmagbee

Baton Rouge, LA
February 2004

DEC 13, 2006 07:32 PM

futuramagoo said:
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!"



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."

drummer5

drummer5

Syracuse, NY
August 2005

DEC 13, 2006 08:03 PM

frown

Kris7

Kris7

Bridgewater, MA
July 2003

DEC 13, 2006 08:18 PM

Rest easy Wizard.

MessyJessy

MessyJessy

Fort Myers, FL
August 2005

DEC 13, 2006 09:01 PM

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

Grimjack

grimjack

Philadelphia, PA
January 2004

DEC 13, 2006 09:46 PM

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...

Ipecac_32

Ipecac_32

St Albert, AB
September 2006

DEC 13, 2006 10:09 PM

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

blacklace

blacklace

San Diego, CA
May 2005

DEC 13, 2006 10:31 PM

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.

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