Peter Boyle dies at 71.

[devilmaster]

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Emmy award-winning actor Peter Boyle, best known as the curmudgeonly father in the US sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, has died at the age of 71.

Boyle came to fame in 1974 playing a tap-dancing monster in Mel Brook's spoof horror movie Young Frankenstein.

He has also been seen in Malcolm X, Taxi Driver and, most recently, The Santa Clause Three.

He had been suffering from cancer of the bone marrow and heart disease and died in a New York hospital on Tuesday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6177391.stm

[KLang]

RIP :(

Never got into Raymond but I will always remember him from Young Frankenstein.

http://www.ladyofthecake.com/mel/frank/images/soup.jpg

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[devilmaster]

RIP :(

Never got into Raymond but I will always remember him from Young Frankenstein.

Ditto, and Johnny Dangerously. :)

[emjaya]

Hated Raymond.:thumdown:
I remember seeing Peter Boyle in Taxi Driver, he was much the same as he was in Raymond, only more in your face. :)

:(

[TrueBrit]

As his character on Raymond would say.."Holy Crap!"

What a shame....

RIP

[Don Quixote]

I also loved him in Young Frankenstein.
Also, he was very good as the bad guy in the Sean Connery sci-fi flick Outland. :(

[ferrarigod]

he died of the same cancer my father did in 2001. sad. no cure, and average life after first detection is 18 months. great actor, from young frankenstein to raymond.

:(

[Napoleon]

I just read his obit. What an interesting life. The guy was a monk for a while.

[Napoleon]

A PS to my last post on how his life was interesting. His best man at his wedding was John Lennon.