Peter Boyle- An Appreciation

This scene is from the 1974 hit comedy Young Frankenstein starring Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle.

Last night, we lost this comic genius to heart disease and multiple myeloma, a cancer that causes the body to create too much plasma.
Boyle is also know for his role as the cantankerous father, Frank, on the CBS hit Everybody Loves Raymond.




Boyle also acted in films such as Joe (1970), where he played an Archie Bunker type (Susan Sarandon co-starred); Slither (1973); Taxi Driver (1976; co-starred with Robert You Talkin' To Me DeNiro and Monster's Ball (2001), where he played the racist father of Billy Joe Thornton. In his career, he won an Emmy for an appearance in The X Files
and was nominated numerous times for his role on Everybody Loves Raymond (but never won. He was the only cast member not to win an Emmy during the show's 10-season run). His final appearance will be in Shadows of Atticus, which was completed at the time of his death Tuesday night. His last film appearance was in this year's The Santa Clause 3, co-starring Tim Allen and Martin Short.

But Boyle will forever be immortalized as Igor and Frank.

He is survived by wife Lorraine, and daughters Lucy and Amy.

Boyle was 71.