"Even without Raymond, Boyle would deserve a place in the comic pantheon for one other role alone: the Ritz dancing monster from Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. What's odd, considering the two roles for which he's so fondly remembered, is that Boyle didn't start out to be an actor at all, let alone a comic one. Boyle was a Christian Brothers monk before he left the order for acting. And when he began acting, his best roles were intensely serious - led by his career-making title turn as a bigoted, violent factory worker in the 1970 film Joe."
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Everybody Loves Raymond star Peter Boyle, 71, died Tuesday night in New York after battling multiple myeloma and heart disease.
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