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Peter Boyle
American actor (1935–2006) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Peter Lawrence Boyle (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor. He is known for his character actor roles in film and television and received several awards including a Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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Born | Peter Lawrence Boyle (1935-10-18)October 18, 1935 Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Died | December 12, 2006(2006-12-12) (aged 71) New York City, U.S. |
Resting place | Green River Cemetery, Springs, New York, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1963–2006 |
Spouse |
Loraine Alterman (m. 1977) |
Children | 2 |
He is best known for his role as the patriarch Frank Barone on the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond from 1996 to 2004. For his role he received seven nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. For his role as Clyde Bruckman in the Fox science-fiction drama The X-Files in 1996 he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.
On film, he starred as the comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein (1974). He won praise in both comedic and dramatic parts including in Joe (1970), The Candidate (1972), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), Slither (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), and Hardcore (1979). He later took supporting roles in The Santa Clause (1994), While You Were Sleeping (1995), Monster's Ball (2001), and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004). [1]