Personal details
Born:
- Birthday: 1935-10-18
- Born Place: Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
Deathday:
2006-12-12
Also Known As:
Peter Lawrence Boyle, Jr., Peter Lawrence Boyle, پیتر بویل
Peter Boyle
Peter Lawrence Boyle Jr. (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor celebrated for his versatility in both dramatic and comedic character roles. Raised Catholic, he initially spent three years as a novice with the De La Salle Brothers, a Catholic teaching order, and later served briefly in the U.S. Navy before beginning his acting career after a nervous breakdown. He studied under Uta Hagen in New York and gained critical notice with his breakthrough role as the bigoted factory worker in the controversial 1970 film Joe. Boyle became widely known for his comedic turn as the comical Monster in Mel Brooks's 1974 spoof Young Frankenstein, a role for which he was still in makeup when he met his future wife, Loraine Alterman; his close friend John Lennon served as best man at their 1977 wedding. His later career was marked by a Primetime Emmy Award win in 1996 for a guest role on The X-Files and his popular, long-running role as the gruff patriarch Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005), for which he received seven Emmy nominations. Boyle also played notable dramatic roles in films like Taxi Driver and Monster's Ball, and in real life was a lifelong pacifist who participated in anti-war rallies with figures like Jane Fonda. He continued acting after suffering a near-fatal stroke in 1990 and a heart attack in 1999, working until his death from multiple myeloma and heart disease in 2006.
