Peter Boyle, 71, Character Actor Played Psychotics and Monsters
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Peter Boyle, who died yesterday at 71, came to fame in 1970s films, playing a series of emotional and physical psychopaths, plus one actual monster, the tap-dancing, zipper-necked concoction in “Young Frankenstein.” Between 1996 and 2005, he was beamed into living rooms across America as the title character’s misanthropic father in the sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond.”
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