{"id":5910,"date":"2006-12-13T12:13:07","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T18:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgtstryker.com\/index.php\/archives\/rip-peter-boyle\/"},"modified":"2006-12-13T18:50:47","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T00:50:47","slug":"rip-peter-boyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/rip-peter-boyle\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Peter Boyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but the first Mel Brooks movie I laughed so hard at I almost wet myself was <em>Young Frankenstein<\/em>.  (Frahnkensteen?)  I was a huge monster movie fan as a kid, always staying up to watch Creature Feature on WGN and then Elvira when we got her on UHF.  I&#8217;m not sure which hurt worse, watching Gene Hackman almost kill him with kindness or the tap dancing.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t a huge Ray Ramano fan but again, Boyle made that show for me.  He will be missed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a title=\"CBS on Boyle\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2006\/12\/13\/people_late_great\/main2254521.shtml\">(CBS\/AP)<\/a> Peter Boyle, the tall, prematurely bald actor who was the tap-dancing monster in &#8220;Young Frankenstein&#8221; and the curmudgeonly father in the long-running sitcom &#8220;Everybody Loves Raymond,&#8221; has died. He was 71.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran character actor died Tuesday evening in New York after a long battle with multiple myeloma and heart disease, his publicist, Jennifer Plante, told The ShowBuzz Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A Christian Brothers monk who turned to acting, Boyle gained notice playing an angry working man in the Vietnam-era hit &#8220;Joe.&#8221; But he overcame typecasting when he took on the role of the hulking, lab-created monster in Mel Brooks&#8217; 1974 send-up of horror films.<\/p>\n<p>The movie&#8217;s defining moment came when Gene Wilder, as scientist Frederick Frankenstein, introduced his creation to an upscale audience. Boyle, decked out in tails, performed a song-and-dance routine to the Irving Berlin classic &#8220;Puttin&#8217; On the Ritz.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but the first Mel Brooks movie I laughed so hard at I almost wet myself was Young Frankenstein. (Frahnkensteen?) I was a huge monster movie fan as a kid, always staying up to watch Creature Feature on WGN and then Elvira when we got her on UHF. I&#8217;m not sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thats-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}