• The Candidate
  Friends of Eddie Coyle
  Young Frankenstein
  Taxi Driver
  F.I.S.T.
  The Brink's Job
  Outland
  Red Heat

Just to name a few.
And Everybody Loves Raymond
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 12-13-2006, 01:44 PM:
 
That's pretty stunning news. Sad indeed.

Boyle recently appeared on Comedy Central's Mind of Mencia show.

Young Frankenstein was an awesome comedy. The scene where Peter Boyle (as the monster) has soup with a blind man played by Gene Hackman still makes me laugh hard to this day. The look on his face when he realizes his thumb is lit on fire (instead of the cigar tip) is priceless. The movie also features the best ever performance of Putting on the Ritz.
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 12-13-2006, 03:07 PM:
 


He was awesome as Frank Barone, one of the best episodes was of the season just released, I think 7, where they go to a funeral for a neighbor's wife, and during one of their squabbles, he yells out "I wouldn't be caught dead with Rose JOhnson", to which the entire Barone family quietly walks out one of the wake one by one. One of the best episodes...
 

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Posted by Chad Souder (Member # 343) on 12-13-2006, 03:25 PM:
 

quote: Bobby Henderson

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The movie also features the best ever performance of Putting on the Ritz.

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ABSOLUTELY! Because of that scene, I can't hear that song without starting to laugh and then people ask me what I'm laughing at and I can't even tell them because I start laughing harder and I try to do an impression and that just gets me laughing harder yet especially when I get to the mumbled "Puttin' on the ritz!" part... The movie is one of my favorites and I am grateful for the entertainment Boyle provided for us.
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 12-13-2006, 09:29 PM:
 
OMG! I'm shocked. He wasn't that old.
 

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Posted by Wayne Keyser (Member # 2420) on 12-13-2006, 10:26 PM:
 
He looked like hell on Mencia - that sort of "Whatever happened to him, he's not long for this world" look.

I remember him best for his X-Files episode ... makes me cry every time ... TV Guide listed that as one of thier best 100 SF broadcasts.
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 12-13-2006, 10:43 PM:
 
I've read some articles on CNN and some celeb sites, and none of them mention his role in Hardcore. It's probably like it's going to be when Pacino goes, no one will mention Cruising
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 12-13-2006, 10:57 PM:
 
Gosh, I didn't realize he was in "Hardcore". My favorite parts of his were, of course, in "Young Frankenstein", and in "Taxi Driver".

Since I cannot stomach that over-paid asshole Romano, I never saw Boyle in "Everybody Loves Raymond"...what a POS show!

RIP Mr. Boyle. The laughs you provided, and the talent you displayed in your diversified roles will live on.



[ 12-14-2006, 12:17 AM: Message edited by: Phil Hill ]
 

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Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 12-14-2006, 01:17 PM:
 
Phil, Mr Boyle was one of the only reasons I ever stopped channel surfing on Raymond. I am sorry for his passing.
 

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Posted by Chad Souder (Member # 343) on 12-14-2006, 08:26 PM:
 

quote: Phil Hill

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Since I cannot stomach that over-paid asshole Romano

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I digress from the topic at hand, but out of curiosity, what it is about Ray Romano that in your opinion makes him an overpaid asshole? I guess I don't know much about the guy off-set.
 

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Posted by Matt Fields (Member # 3211) on 12-14-2006, 10:06 PM:
 

 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 12-14-2006, 11:06 PM:
 
Artie Lange was talking about Boyle on Stern today, said that he and Norm McDonald were shooting on the same lot as Raymond does a while back, and Boyle offered them some "amazing weed" and they all lit up and had a party together. Said he was a great guy... who knew Frank Barone liked to party?
 

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Posted by Chad M Calpito (Member # 3736) on 12-15-2006, 12:19 AM:
 
Sad to hear that Peter Boyle passed away. He did a great job in the movie "Outland", which is one of my favorite Sci-Fi movies. May he rest in peace.
 

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Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 12-15-2006, 01:58 PM:
 
One of the DJ's on the oldies station said that he was John Lennon's best man when he married Yoko (on imdb it says that Lennon was Boyle's best man). Either way, with such a connection, he probably had access to all kinds of good s**t

That X-files episode with him is a classic. He played a character named Clyde Bruckman. Fans of classic comedy will recall the real Clyde Bruckman's name on numerous Three Stooges and Buster Keaton comedies, to name a few. The episode contains many other references to old movies.

His father was a tv kiddie show host in the Philadelphia area in the 1950's and 1960's.

71 isn't that old anymore. I'm beginning to think there might be a curse on actors who appear in movies with Gene Wilder.
 

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Posted by Charles Greenlee (Member # 3856) on 12-15-2006, 07:26 PM:
 
He was also the cab driver in The Shadow. I watched it the other day. Not a very funny role, but he still held it down pretty good. I did like him on Raymond, though the rest of the show did take on a Sienfeldish loserish waste of time feeling to it. His character always had something smart and funny to say, even if it wasn't smart in the intelegence sense.
 

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Posted by Martin Brooks (Member # 1269) on 12-15-2006, 08:35 PM:
 

quote: Mike Heenan

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Said he was a great guy... who knew Frank Barone liked to party?

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