Peter Boyle

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Data di nascita
18 ottobre 1935 · Norristown, Pennsylvania, Stati Uniti
Data di morte
12 dicembre 2006 · Manhattan, New York, New York, Stati Uniti (mieloma multiplo e cardiopatia)
Nome alla nascita
Peter Lawrence Boyle Jr.
Altezza
1,88 m

Biografia

Famiglia

Coniuge
Bambini
Genitori
Parenti

Marchio registrato

Often played gruff yet lovable characters

Quiz

Got lost while trying to reach his audition for Tutti amano Raymond (1996) with his wife frequently asking him if he knew where he was going. The frustration of not knowing caused him to become irritated and snappy when he finally arrived and, as a result, was cast as the gruff and grouchy Frank Barone.
Before deciding to pursue a career in acting, he was a monk in the Christian Brothers order.
Peter's wife Loraine Alterman Boyle was a reporter for "Rolling Stone" magazine when they first met - he was in his full make-up for Frankenstein Junior (1974). Through her friendship with Yoko Ono, Peter met and became best friends with ex-Beatle John Lennon. Lennon served as best man at their wedding. Their first child Lucy was born two days after Lennon's murder in 1980.
He suffered a near-fatal stroke in October 1990 that rendered him completely speechless and immobile for nearly six months. He also had a heart attack on the set while taping an episode of Tutti amano Raymond (1996) in 1999. After an angioplasty, he quickly recovered health and returned to the series.
Father hosted a popular children's lunchtime cartoon show in Philadelphia in the 1950s titled "Lunch with Uncle Pete."

Citazioni

I don't think I would be an actor if I was all that intelligent.
When I was in high school I wanted to be a leading man guy, like Howard Keel. But then God saw fit to take the hair off my head at age 24.
I went through that adolescent crisis where you either jump into the river or jump into spirituality. I felt the call for a while; then I felt the normal pull of the world and the flesh. - PB, referring to his early life as a monk
[from a 1973 Rolling Stone article] Back in the fifties. I was an early fifties Jesus freak. I did it for about a year. I never spoke when I wasn't supposed to speak. I was an acolyte in the order of the Christian Brothers. Yeah, yeah, I know -- the Friends of the Winos. But I took it very seriously at the time. I pursued, you know, God, somewhat unsuccessfully for several years as a professional religious person, and then I forsook that life and took myself back to the world, and, through a series of incredibly stupid errors, became an actor. And after many hard, bitter years of struggle, I've achieved the immense fame I have now. Wealth. Happiness. Beautiful women throwing themselves at me. Believe me, it's not at all it's cracked up to be. Ahead of me, I can see only more stardom, with liberal does of obscurity.
[on working with Robert Mitchum on Gli amici di Eddie Coyle (1973)] I really like Mitchum. The thing about him is that he's so fantastically hyperkinetic. I mean, questions of tolerance and energy and all that stuff -- he's just not quite human.