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Author Topic: Peter Boyle has passed away at 71 Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 12-13-2006 01:23 PM                     Peter Boyle passed away Tuesday evening in NYC, he was 71 years old. The Candidate Friends of Eddie Coyle Young Frankenstein Taxi Driver F.I.S.T. The Brink's Job Outland Red Heat Just to name a few. And Everybody Loves Raymond  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-13-2006 01:44 PM                     That's pretty stunning news. Sad indeed. Boyle recently appeared on Comedy Central's Mind of Mencia show. Young Frankenstein was an awesome comedy. The scene where Peter Boyle (as the monster) has soup with a blind man played by Gene Hackman still makes me laugh hard to this day. The look on his face when he realizes his thumb is lit on fire (instead of the cigar tip) is priceless. The movie also features the best ever performance of Putting on the Ritz.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-13-2006 03:07 PM                     He was awesome as Frank Barone, one of the best episodes was of the season just released, I think 7, where they go to a funeral for a neighbor's wife, and during one of their squabbles, he yells out "I wouldn't be caught dead with Rose JOhnson", to which the entire Barone family quietly walks out one of the wake one by one. One of the best episodes...  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 12-13-2006 03:25 PM                     quote: Bobby Henderson The movie also features the best ever performance of Putting on the Ritz. ABSOLUTELY! Because of that scene, I can't hear that song without starting to laugh and then people ask me what I'm laughing at and I can't even tell them because I start laughing harder and I try to do an impression and that just gets me laughing harder yet especially when I get to the mumbled "Puttin' on the ritz!" part... The movie is one of my favorites and I am grateful for the entertainment Boyle provided for us.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-13-2006 09:29 PM                       OMG! I'm shocked. He wasn't that old.  |  IP: Logged Wayne Keyser Master Film Handler Posts: 272 From: Arlington, Virginia, USA Registered: May 2004 posted 12-13-2006 10:26 PM                     He looked like hell on Mencia - that sort of "Whatever happened to him, he's not long for this world" look. I remember him best for his X-Files episode ... makes me cry every time ... TV Guide listed that as one of thier best 100 SF broadcasts.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-13-2006 10:43 PM                     I've read some articles on CNN and some celeb sites, and none of them mention his role in Hardcore. It's probably like it's going to be when Pacino goes, no one will mention Cruising  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-13-2006 10:57 PM                  Gosh, I didn't realize he was in "Hardcore". My favorite parts of his were, of course, in "Young Frankenstein", and in "Taxi Driver". Since I cannot stomach that over-paid asshole Romano, I never saw Boyle in "Everybody Loves Raymond"...what a POS show! RIP Mr. Boyle. The laughs you provided, and the talent you displayed in your diversified roles will live on. [ 12-14-2006, 12:17 AM: Message edited by: Phil Hill ]  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 12-14-2006 01:17 PM                     Phil, Mr Boyle was one of the only reasons I ever stopped channel surfing on Raymond. I am sorry for his passing.  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 12-14-2006 08:26 PM                     quote: Phil Hill Since I cannot stomach that over-paid asshole Romano I digress from the topic at hand, but out of curiosity, what it is about Ray Romano that in your opinion makes him an overpaid asshole? I guess I don't know much about the guy off-set.  |  IP: Logged Matt Fields Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 545 From: Ohio, United States Registered: Jun 2005 posted 12-14-2006 10:06 PM                      |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-14-2006 11:06 PM                     Artie Lange was talking about Boyle on Stern today, said that he and Norm McDonald were shooting on the same lot as Raymond does a while back, and Boyle offered them some "amazing weed" and they all lit up and had a party together. Said he was a great guy... who knew Frank Barone liked to party?  |  IP: Logged Chad M Calpito Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 12-15-2006 12:19 AM                        Sad to hear that Peter Boyle passed away. He did a great job in the movie "Outland", which is one of my favorite Sci-Fi movies. May he rest in peace.  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-15-2006 01:58 PM                     One of the DJ's on the oldies station said that he was John Lennon's best man when he married Yoko (on imdb it says that Lennon was Boyle's best man). Either way, with such a connection, he probably had access to all kinds of good s**t That X-files episode with him is a classic. He played a character named Clyde Bruckman. Fans of classic comedy will recall the real Clyde Bruckman's name on numerous Three Stooges and Buster Keaton comedies, to name a few. The episode contains many other references to old movies. His father was a tv kiddie show host in the Philadelphia area in the 1950's and 1960's. 71 isn't that old anymore. I'm beginning to think there might be a curse on actors who appear in movies with Gene Wilder.  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 12-15-2006 07:26 PM                        He was also the cab driver in The Shadow. I watched it the other day. Not a very funny role, but he still held it down pretty good. I did like him on Raymond, though the rest of the show did take on a Sienfeldish loserish waste of time feeling to it. His character always had something smart and funny to say, even if it wasn't smart in the intelegence sense.  |  IP: Logged

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