Celebrity Biographies
Peter Boyle
Peter Boyle has left, one of those faces that it is sometimes difficult to link a name to, but without whom Hollywood would have no place.
Peter Boyle passed away in New York at the age of 71. After several years of fighting heart problems, on December 12, 2006, the curtain was lowered for this secondary actor. Peter Boyle is one of those actors with a long career, more than 90 titles between film and television endorse his work. But it is one of those names that is difficult to put a face to. Most of them will have to turn their eyes and then they will say that “it sounds familiar to me”. He is one of those Hollywood faces who, with his work, contributed to the packaging of a film. One of those almost anonymous names, but with a more than familiar face.
Peter Boyle was born in Philadelphia on October 18, 1935. He began his career at the age of 31 and since then has not stopped working until the end of his days. He had recently shot Shadows of Atticus , a drama starring Peter Coyote , about a girl who loses her mother in a car accident. Looking ahead, Boyle planned to make Chatman , a romantic comedy starring Anne Archer . It is evident that neither his age nor his illness had slowed down his career. A career in which he co-starred with Robert Redford in The Candidate (1972), he was the monster in the Mel Brooks comedy Young Frankenstein(1974), or the magician, Robert De Niro ‘s peculiar professional partner , in Taxi Driver (1976). He participated in titles as diverse as the action film Danko: Red Heat (1988) and the romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping (1995), in which he gave life to the father of Peter Gallagher and Bill Pullman with a funny performance . As far as parents are concerned, his work in Monster’s Ball (2001), where he was the ‘tolerant’ father of Billy Bob Thornton , will remain to be remembered .
Television was a world to which he did not remain alien. He participated in series like Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman or the X Files . But the one that gave him the greatest recognition among the public was Everybody Loves Raymond , in which he worked between 1996 and 2005, giving life to the father of the protagonist. It is these works that will remain in everyone’s memory.