In Memoriam: Everybody Loved Peter Boyle
In Memoriam: Everybody Loved Peter Boyle by Roxanne McDonald
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The adorable curmudgeon on “Everybody Loves Raymond”, Emmy-award winning Peter Boyle dies at 71. |
He was one of the most respected in the business. He was the curmudgeonly, irreverent, and iconoclastic Frank Barone on “Everybody Loves Raymond,” who is so rude and rambunctious in a golf cart at the Florida retirement home that he and wife Marie are evicted, who is so surly and self-centered that Deborah has to shoo him away on countless occasions, who is so nasty and naughty that even his wife wants to boot him for a trade-in model.
But he was also so fine a performer, so convincing a character, that no one would have wished him out of the business or out of their lives.
Sadly, unfortunately for all of us, Peter Boyle passed away on December 12, 2006, under the duress of complications of multiple myeloma and heart disease.Boyle was not only the perfect pessimist, Frank Barone, a role for which he had been nominated for Emmys seven times. One Emmy-win came for him for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series–for guest spot performances on “The X Files.”
And the seasoned comic was not only a wry sit-com character actor. Many remember his stellar performance in Joe, as the title character who is a working class racist—a performance that so wowed audiences and so impressed the industry heads that he was offered leads in such roles as The French Connection
(the wowing of which so disturbed Boyle—who was bothered by their positive responses to such negative/violent content—that he refused such offers).
Equally brilliant in films such as Tripping the Rift and in other situation-comedies such as “The King of Queens” and “Family Guy,” Boyle’s work in nearly 100 films and shows will be as missed as will his hallmark grumbling and grousing as Frank Barone.
Much sympathy to his co-stars, friends, and loved ones.
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