Peter Boyle
Peter Lawrence Boyle ( born October 18, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † December 12, 2006 in New York City ) was an American actor.
Life
Boyle began his career in the United States Army, he was forced to leave because of a nervous breakdown. After that, he was by the end of the 1950s monk in a Christian faith Brotherhood before he devoted himself to acting. He took acting lessons from this, the acting teacher Uta Hagen in New York City and appeared in the first off-Broadway performances. Following nation-wide theater performances, he later became a member of the famous improvisational troupe Second City in Chicago.
The late 1960s, followed by the first side and extras roles on television his debut role in The Virgin President ( 1968) and a brief scene in the critically acclaimed film Medium Cool from the year 1969.
In 1970 he got the title role in the drama Joe - revenge for America, in the Boyle played an arch-conservative and alcoholic factory worker alongside Susan Sarandon. The film was controversial for its violence and offensive language at the time of its appearance. Ironically, Boyle protested at that time often with actress Jane Fonda, with whom he was a close friend, against the Vietnam War
As Peter Boyle wanted to commit not to hard-hearted characters in his acting work, he leaned Joe - revenge for America, the role of " Detective Jimmy Popeye ' Doyle " in the multiple Oscar -winning police drama French Connection - focus Brooklyn from, by the Gene Hackman was world famous and for which he received an Oscar.
His comic skills could put 1974 in Mel Brooks ' successful satire Young Frankenstein proof, in which he Boyle - with Gene Wilder - mimed the monster. In 1977, he portrayed then U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy in the television drama Tail Gunner Joe, for which he also received much recognition.
Known Boyle, both for the representation of comic and dramatic roles, was seen more often in supporting roles as a character actor than in lead roles. These included roles in Taxi Driver, The Dream Team and Shadow and the Curse of the Khan. 2002 turned Boyle along with Eddie Murphy and Rosario Dawson, the science fiction comedy The Adventures of Pluto Nash.
At Boyle's television activities included, among others roles in television films such as Dangerous fame - Rise and Fall of Oliver North or in the Lake of the Woods. He was also often seen in guest roles in television series. For the embodiment of the clairvoyant assessed insurance seller " Clyde Bruckman " in the third season of the U.S. mystery series The X-Files Boyle won an Emmy. From 1996 to 2005 Peter Boyle played the cantankerous grandfather " Frank Barone " in the U.S. comedy series Everybody Loves Raymond (English Everybody Loves Raymond ), for its presentation he was also nominated several times for an Emmy, which he never received.
Peter Boyle was married since 1977 with Loraine Alterman, whom he met during the filming of Frankenstein Junior in full costume as Frankenstein's monster. Together with her he had two daughters, Lucy and Amy. About his wife Loraine, then a reporter for the music magazine Rolling Stone and friend of Yoko Ono, he met John Lennon of the Beatles, with whom he was a close friend until his assassination and was one of the groomsmen at Boyle's wedding.
In 1990, Peter Boyle suffered a stroke that damaged also be the language center, so that he could not speak for almost half a year. Nine years later, the U.S. actor suffered on the set of Everybody Loves Raymond a heart attack.
On December 12, 2006 Peter Boyle died of complications from heart disease and his bone marrow cancer at the age of 71 years.