Peter Boyle
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Peter Boyle in 1978
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| Born |
Peter Lawrence Boyle October 18, 1935 Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Died | December 12, 2006 (aged 71) New York City, New York, United States |
| Cause of death | Multiple myeloma, cardiovascular disease |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1966–2006 |
| Spouse(s) | Loraine Alterman (m.1977–2006; his death) |
| Children | 2 |
Peter Lawrence Boyle (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American character actor. He played Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond and the comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein (1974).
Boyle, who won an Emmy Award in 1996 for a guest-starring role on the science-fiction drama The X-Files, won praise in both comedic and dramatic parts following his breakthrough performance in the 1970 film Joe.
Boyle was born on October 18, 1935, in Norristown, Pennsylvania, the son of Alice (née Lewis) and Francis Xavier Boyle. He moved with his family to nearby Philadelphia. His father was a Philadelphia TV personality from 1951 to 1963 who, among many other roles, played the Western-show host Chuck Wagon Pete, and hosted the afterschool children's program Uncle Pete Presents the Little Rascals, which showed vintage Little Rascals and Three Stooges comedy shorts, and Popeye cartoons.
He had Irish ancestry and was raised Roman Catholic. He attended St. Francis de Sales School and West Philadelphia Catholic High School For Boys. After graduating high school in 1953, Boyle spent three years as a novice of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, or De La Salle Brothers, a Catholic teaching order. He lived in a house of studies with other novices and earned a BA from La Salle University in Philadelphia in 1957, but left the order because he did not feel called to religious life. While in Philadelphia, he worked as a cameraman on the cooking show Television Kitchen, hosted by Florence Hanford.
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