Peter Boyle
Gender: Male
Born: 18th October 1935
Died: 12th December 2006
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Everybody Loves Raymond, Joe Bash, Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story, Eureka 7 (US)
Movies: Hammett, Hardcore, In God We Tru$t, In the Line of Duty: Street War, Monster's Ball, Outland, Red Heat, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Taxi Driver, The Candidate, Turk 182!, Walker, While You Were Sleeping, Young Frankenstein, F.I.S.T, The Santa Clause, Joe, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Dream Team, Honeymoon in Vegas, Steelyard Blues, Death and the Compass, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, Where the Buffalo Roam, All Roads Lead Home, Yellowbeard, Born to Be Wild, Johnny Dangerously, Slither, Tail Gunner Joe, Kickboxer 2, The Surgeon, Milk and Money, In the Lake of the Woods, Sweet Evil, Dr. Dolittle, T.R. Baskin, Solar Crisis, Kid Blue, The Brink's Job, Speed Zone!, Medium Cool, Men of Respect, The Shadow, Swashbuckler, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, The Santa Clause 2, That Darn Cat, The Cat Returns, Bulletproof Heart, Challenger, Royce, Crazy Joe, Surrender, Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story, Nervous Ticks, Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North, Poochinski, The Monitors, Ghost In The Noonday Sun, The In Crowd, Malcolm X, Taking the Heat, Diary of a Mad Housewife, The Group, Role Model: Gene Wilder
Peter Lawrence Boyle, Jr. (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein (1974).
Boyle, 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.
Boyle was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania of Irish descent, the son of Alice and Peter Boyle Sr. He moved with his family to nearby Philadelphia. His father was a Philadelphia TV personality from 1951–1963 who, among many other things, played the Western-show host Chuck Wagon Pete, and hosted the afterschool children's program Uncle Pete Presents the Little Rascals, which showed vintage Little Rascals, Three Stooges comedy shorts and Popeye cartoons.
He was raised Roman Catholic and he attended St. Francis de Sales School and West Philadelphia Catholic High School For Boys. After high school Boyle spent three years as a novice of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, or De La Salle Brothers, a Catholic teaching
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