Peter Boyle dies at 71
I will miss Peter Boyle. Even when he was enjoying great success with "Everybody Loves Raymond", he still took unsympathetic roles in movies like Monster's Ball. His guest appearance on "The X-Files" was great, and he appeared in a surprising amount of movies, including a Boston-based Robert Mitchum crime drama from 1973 called The Friends of Eddie Coyle. He was a Christian Brothers monk at one time and was John Lennon's Best Man at his wedding to Yoko Ono.I was in a play with his sister, Alice Duffy, at Boston's Lyric Stage when I mentioned that I admired the diversity of her brother's life. She said, "He's even better if you know him."
See also: Peter Boyle on the Internet Movie Database, Actor Peter Boyle dead at 71 (bostonglobe.com, AP)
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by Marty Barrett at Wednesday, December 13, 2006
3 Comments:
'UTTIN' ON THE 'IIIIITZ.
Thanks for the wonderful anecdote. He was one big, funny, weird old man.
Thanks for the picture from one of my favorite scenes of any movie. He was a comic genius, and "Raymond" would not have been a success without him.
My favourite performance of Mr. Boyle's: His portrayal of Lazlo, attorney to gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson in "Where The Buffalo Roam."
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