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US actor Peter Boyle dies aged 71 | US actor Peter Boyle dies aged 71 |
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Emmy award-winning actor Peter Boyle, best known as the curmudgeonly father in the US sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, has died at the age of 71. | Emmy award-winning actor Peter Boyle, best known as the curmudgeonly father in the US sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, has died at the age of 71. |
Boyle came to fame in 1974 playing a tap-dancing monster in Mel Brook's spoof horror movie Young Frankenstein. | Boyle came to fame in 1974 playing a tap-dancing monster in Mel Brook's spoof horror movie Young Frankenstein. |
He has also been seen in Malcolm X, Taxi Driver and, most recently, The Santa Clause Three. | He has also been seen in Malcolm X, Taxi Driver and, most recently, The Santa Clause Three. |
He had been suffering from cancer of the bone marrow and heart disease and died in a New York hospital on Tuesday. | He had been suffering from cancer of the bone marrow and heart disease and died in a New York hospital on Tuesday. |
Educated in Roman Catholic schools in Philadelphia, Boyle spent three years in a monastery before abandoning his studies there. | |
He later described the experience as similar to "living in the Middle Ages". | |
Typecast | |
After studying under German-born acting teacher Ute Hagen in New York, he began to get work in the theatre, and received his big break in film with the 1970 movie Joe. | |
He won acclaim for his role as a burly, angry, construction worker - but quickly began to feel he was being typecast in violent blue-collar roles, which led him to sign up for Young Frankenstein. | |
The movie's defining moment saw Boyle's monster in top hat and tails dancing to Putting on the Ritz in front of a startled upmarket audience. | |
It was on the set of Young Frankenstein, while still in his character make-up, that Boyle met his future wife, Rolling Stone reporter Loraine Alterman. | |
Through her, he also became close friends with John Lennon, who was best man at the couple's wedding in 1977. | |
In the same year, he won his first Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Senator Joe McCarthy in the TV film Tail Gunner Joe. | |
Boyle also continued to appear on the big screen, playing the cabbie-philosopher Wizard, who counselled Robert De Niro's violent Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver. | |
He also took roles in Johnny Dangerously, While You Were Sleeping and Monster's Ball. | |
Obnoxious | |
In 1990, Boyle suffered a stroke and could not talk for six months, but he soon returned to work and, in 1996, finally won an Emmy for a cameo role on The X Files. | |
He made his debut in Everybody Loves Raymond the same year, playing the long-suffering Frank Barone. | |
"He's just obnoxious in a nice way, just for laughs," he said of the character in a 2001 interview. | |
The show's creator, Phil Rosenthal, said Boyle was "nothing like Frank Barone, and that makes his performance even more impressive". | |
In 1999, Boyle had a heart attack on the set of the sitcom, but made a speedy recovery and stayed with the series until it ended in 2005 - picking up a further seven Emmy nominations along the way. | |
Despite his work in Everybody Loves Raymond and other Hollywood productions, Boyle made New York City his home. | |
He and his wife had two daughters, Lucy and Amy. |