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Peter Boyle Dead at 71Thursday, December 14, 2006 - After a forty year career, playing characters as diverse as a Frankenstein monster, drunken redneck, and a sharp-tongued father-in-law, the Emmy award-winning actor Peter Boyle has died at the age of 71 from multiple myeloma and heart disease, according to his publicists on Wednesday.
Boyle had suffered through health problems before, but always rebounded quickly, returning to work. In 1990, he suffered from a stroke that left him unable to speak for six months. Then in 1999 he endured a heart attack while on the set of the comedy Everybody Loves Raymond, but came back to work after heart surgery.
Born on October 18, 1935 in Northtown, Pennsylvania, Boyle was the son of a Philadelphia children's TV host , Peter Boyle, Sr., or Chuck Wagon Pete. He attended LaSalle University, and then served as an ensign in the United States Navy until having a nervous breakdown. He then became a drama teacher at a Catholic high school, before he eventually made his life's work as an actor, becoming part of the Second City Chicago comedy ensemble for a short time.
Boyle had a starring role in the film Joe as a bigoted factory worker, long before Archie Bunker was a household name. Through an interest in not wanting do to another violent movie, he joined Jane Fonda in war protests. Because of this, he refused a part in the movie The French Connection, making his next major film The Candidate. He then starred as the monster in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein, along with Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman, and starred with Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver. Later in his career he won an Emmy award for a guest starring role in The X-Files, and ended his career on a good note, playing Ray Romano's father in Everybody Loves Raymond.
He has made many truly great friends along the way that will miss him dearly. Doris Roberts, who played his wife on Everybody Loves Raymond compared the loss to that of losing a spouse. She said he was very unlike the role he played on the show, and referred to him as a brilliant actor. Boyle had met his real wife, Loraine Alterman, while she was working as a reporter for Rolling Stone. It was through her that he met and befriended John Lennon, and in fact Lennon was the best man at their wedding.
Currently, Boyle's work can be seen in the movie The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, the third movie in the series he has appeared in alongside Tim Allen. -LT
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