Peter Boyle

Peter Boyle

CountryUnited States United States
GenderMale
BirthdayOkt. 18, 1935
Death2006-12-12
BiographyPeter 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 Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

He is best known for his role as the patriarch Frank Barone on the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond from 1996 to 2005. 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 in Joe (1970), The Candidate (1972), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), F.I.S.T. (1978) and Where the Buffalo Roam (1980). He later took supporting roles in Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), The Shadow (1994), That Darn Cat (1997), and The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002).

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