Peter Boyle

"I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period".

18.10.35 - 12.12.06

Never met him.

Now, some of the lunkheads at work didn’t even realise that Peter Boyle was dead, look where that has brought us.

I, the great intellect, described him as “the one that was in that famous film from the 60’s, you know. I haven’t seen it”. Turns out I meant In The Heat Of The Night - starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. 1967 though, get in.

That’s the thing about Peter Boyle though, I might have mis-cast him in my head, and not seen many of the films that he actually did appear in - but he always struck me as a good lad.

He was grouchy and greedy as the dad in Everyone Loves Raymond and it was that winning combination that made you (me) side with him straight away, especially when he was cutting his on-screen son Raymond down to size. Ray Romano, the worst thing about his own show. It didn’t quite have the same effect with Robert but that’s because you were already on his side in the first place. Ahh, Robert.

Not explaining this very well am I? How about this then - I don’t even mind that he did adverts for alka seltzer. We can let him off with that one can’t we? Come on, he turned down the role of Popeye Doyle and played a drawbridge operator in Porky’s Revenge, now that’s chutzpah.

Still not convinced? Don’t take my word for it, let’s see what GWAR have to say on the subject:

Status: Dead

Lookalike: Marlon Brando

In Three Words: Meat & Potato Guy