Actor Peter Boyle dead at 71 - Democratic Underground

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Wed Dec-13-06 12:53 PM
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Actor Peter Boyle dead at 71

Actor Peter Boyle dead at 71

By DEEPTI HAJELA
Associated Press Writer

AP Photo/STEPHEN CHERNIN

Actor Peter Boyle dead at 71
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S ANGELES (AP) -- Peter Boyle, the tall, prematurely bald actor who was the tap-dancing monster in "Young Frankenstein" and the curmudgeonly father in the long-running sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond," has died. He was 71.

Boyle died Tuesday evening at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He had been suffering from multiple myeloma and heart disease, said his publicist, Jennifer Plante.

A Christian Brothers monk who turned to acting, Boyle gained notice playing an angry workingman in the Vietnam-era hit "Joe." But he overcome typecasting when he took on the role of the hulking, lab-created monster in Mel Brooks' 1974 send-up of horror films.

The movie's defining moment came when Gene Wilder, as scientist Frederick Frankenstein, introduced his creation to an upscale audience. Boyle, decked out in tails, performed a song-and-dance routine to the Irving Berlin classic "Puttin' On the Ritz."

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Wed Dec-13-06 02:00 PM
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1. RIP

He was kinda of funny

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NewWaveChick1981

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Wed Dec-13-06 03:03 PM
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2. That sucks. RIP. Peter.

:cry: Young Frankenstein was the first non-kiddie movie my parents took me to see when it was first released, and I've always thought he was hysterical in it. :) He was a good actor and a funny guy.

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Wed Dec-13-06 03:05 PM
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3. He didn't look good when he was on Mind of Mencia...

making fun of the head idiot. Poor fella. RIP.

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Wed Dec-13-06 06:03 PM
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4. kick

can't believe that this fell so far down.

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Broken_Hero

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Wed Dec-13-06 06:03 PM
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5. Man, oh man...

May he RIP....

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Cascadian

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Thu Dec-14-06 02:40 AM
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6. kick because....

he was great in "Young Frankenstein"

http://www.movie-gazette.com/directory/img/peter+boyle.jpg

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Connonym

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Thu Dec-14-06 06:10 AM
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7. He was in my favorite ever X-Files episode

Edited on Thu Dec-14-06 06:13 AM by Connonym

"Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" He was a kick ass lefty too. John Lennon was the best man at his wedding

ETA: Too bad he'll be best remembered for that god-awful TV show

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