Young Frankenstein DIES

David Jimerson said:
Well, actually he was the monster . . . not Young Frankenstein . . .
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Everybody is a perfectionist....sheesh!.....yeah yeah yeah....he was the MONSTER...Gene was Young Franke.....well, you get the idea...
 
It not about being a perfectionist...
I also thought Wilder had gone to that Chocolate factory in the sky when I read your title.
 
Film, TV actor Peter Boyle dead at 71

Emmy-winning actor Peter Boyle, who played the dancing monster in the movie "Young Frankenstein" and grouchy father Frank Barone in the TV series "Everybody Loves Raymond," has died, his publicist said on Wednesday.

The 71-year-old former Christian Brothers monk died on Tuesday after a long battle with multiple myeloma and heart disease, his publicists said.

Boyle, who often played cantankerous characters, shot to fame as a foul-mouthed, working-class bigot in the 1970 film "Joe."

He also played one of Robert DeNiro's fellow taxi drivers in Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" in 1976, the cruel, racist father to Billy Bob Thornton in 2001's "Monster's Ball," and took a comic turn as the Frankenstein monster in the 1974 Mel Brooks spoof "Young Frankenstein."

In recent years he played numerous roles on television, including the father to Ray Romano's character. He acted in 201 episodes of the situation comedy from 1996 to 2005 and received numerous Emmy nominations.

He won an Emmy for outstanding guest actor appearance on "The X-Files" in 1996.

Beatle John Lennon was the best man at Boyle's 1977 wedding to journalist Loraine Alterman, then a Rolling Stone reporter.

He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Amy and Lucy Boyle.

Despite playing some unsavory characters, he refused roles that glamorized violence, including the lead role of Popeye Doyle that went to Gene Hackman in 1971's "The French Connection," according to the IMDb entertainment Web site.

Boyle suffered a stroke in 1990 and recovered, then had a heart attack on the set of "Everybody Loves Raymond" in March 1999. He returned to the show soon after heart surgery.
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He was a very funny man. May he RIP
 
Young Frankenstein is one of my favorite Mel Brooks movies, and though I didn't regularly watch Everybody Loves Ray, I found it to be quite humorous.

He will be missed- RIP.
 
CallaghanFilms said:
It not about being a perfectionist...
I also thought Wilder had gone to that Chocolate factory in the sky when I read your title.
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I did, too, even though I had read earlier of Boyle's death.
 
CallaghanFilms said:
It not about being a perfectionist...
I also thought Wilder had gone to that Chocolate factory in the sky when I read your title.
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man, dont SAY that...sheesh...Peter Boyle is bad enough...

Okay okay...i get your points...hey mod men...feel free to change the thread title...
 
i always thought boyle was great as dillion, robert mitchum's buddy in the very wonderful low-life crime film, "the friends of eddie coyle".

he did good work.

that is reason enough for me to remember his efforts.

be well

rob
 
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