Peter Boyle

Peter Boyle

Date of Birth: 18 Oct 1935

Country: USA

Biography: Peter Lawrence Boyle, Jr. (October 18, 1935 - December 12, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and as a comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein (1974). Boyle, who won an Emmy Award in 1996 for a guest-starring role on the science-fiction drama The X-Files, won praise in both comedic and dramatic parts following his breakthrough performance in the 1970 film Joe...(Wikipedia)

Total Credits at Criticker: 63 (Actor)

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    The Adventures of Pluto Nash
    Set on the moon in the year 2087, this comedy stars Eddie Murphy as Pluto Nash, the audacious, successful owner of the hottest nightclub in town who finds himself in trouble with lunar gangsters. (Warner Bros.)
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    Dr. Dolittle
    Dr. John Dolittle nearly runs over a dog with his car. The dog yells "bonehead" and disappears. From then on, his childhood ability is back: to communicate with animals.
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    Monster\
    A hard-hitting Southern drama tempered by a story of powerful, life-changing love. It is the story of Hank (Thornton), an embittered prison guard working on Death Row in rural Georgia. He begins an unlikely but emotionally charged affair with Leticia (Berry), the wife of a man he has just executed. (Lions Gate Films)
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    The Santa Clause 2
    Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) has been Santa Claus for the past eight years, and his loyal elves consider him the best Santa ever. But Santa's got problems (he's even mysteriously losing weight) and things quickly go south when he finds out that his son, Charlie, has landed on this year's "naughty" list. Desperate to help his son, Scott heads back home, leaving a substitute Claus to watch over things at the Pole... (imdb)
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    Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
    Scooby and the gang lose their cool - and their stellar reputation - when an anonymous masked villain wreaks mayhem on the city of Coolsville with a monster machine that re-creates classic Mystery Inc. foes. (Warner Bros.)
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    Taxi Driver
    A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out. (IMDB.com)
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    Johnny Dangerously
    Set in the 1930's, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills (imdb)
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    Medium Cool
    A detached TV news cameraman and a warmhearted Appalachian woman are engulfed in a wave of fear and violence during Chicago's 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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    Young Frankenstein
    Dr. Frankenstein's grandson, after years of living down the family reputation, inherits granddad's castle and repeats the experiments. (imdb)
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    While You Were Sleeping
    Ticket collecting romantic pretends to be engaged to an unconscious man but can't fool his brother (imdb)
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    Honeymoon in Vegas
    On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend... (imdb)
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    The Santa Clause
    When a man inadvertently injurers Santa on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place. (imdb)
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    Red Heat
    Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Russian policeman sent after a Russian drug dealer who has escaped to the United States and is awaiting extradition in Chicago (imdb)
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    The Dream Team
    Dr. Weitzman works with patients in a sanitarium. Convinced that all that his "group" needs is a some fresh air and some time away from the sanitarium... (imdb)
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    Joe
    Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. (imdb)
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    Yellowbeard
    Yellowbeard, a pirate's pirate, is allowed to escape from prison to lead the authorities to his treasure... (imdb)
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    Hardcore
    A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter whom is making porno films in the porno pits of Los Angeles. (imdb)
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    The Shadow
    In 30's New York City, the Shadow battles his nemesis, Shiwan Khan, who is building an atomic bomb. (imdb)
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    Where the Buffalo Roam
    Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. (imdb)
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    The Candidate
    Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment. (imdb)
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    Outland
    A police marshal on a remote mining colony located on one of Jupiter's moons gets no support when he attempts to bring down a drug smuggling ring, and is then targeted by professional gunmen. (imdb)
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    Swashbuckler
    A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant. (imdb)
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    That Darn Cat
    A maid is kidnapped and scratches a message onto D.C. the cat's collar and when his owner Patti discovers this, she plays amateur detective with the help of D.C. to try to find the culprits. (imdb)
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    Nervous Ticks
    For 90 minutes, York Daley's life will be a living hell... And you get to watch! (tagline)
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    Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
    Holiday magic mixes with comical chaos at the North Pole in The Santa Clause 3 as Santa juggles a full house of family and the mischievous Jack Frost tries to take over the "big guy's" holiday. (Disney)
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    Steelyard Blues
    A group of misfits decide to leave for a place that they can all be free. There mode of transportation is a PBY flying boat. The only problem is that the PBY needs a lot of work and they will need jobs to pay for the parts. When they find that they have only 10 days before the PBY is sold for scrap, they decide on borrowing the parts for their trip. (imdb)
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    Hammett
    The novel writter Dashiell Hammett is involved in the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful chinese cabaret actress in San Francisco. (imdb)
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    In God We Trust
    Raised in a Trappist monastery, the innocent Brother Ambrose (Feldman) sets out to find money to save the bankrupt monastery. His education in worldliness is provided by a hooker (Lassiter). He eventually petitions G.O.D. (voice of Pryor) for the cash. (imdb)
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    The Brink\
    After a long time of bad luck, the little criminal Tony and his gang successfully rob one of Brink's security transport, taking $30,000. Surprisingly their coup doesn't make the press. Curious Tony checks out their headquarters and finds out that their security standard is low beyond belief. Now a really big coup is prepared... (imdb)
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    Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
    After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium. (imdb)
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    Surrender
    A wealthy writer who has had terrible experiences with money-hungry girlfriends & ex-wives pretends to be a broke, washed-up novelist to see if the woman he loves wants him for himself or just for his money. (imdb)
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    Slither
    While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed. Their chase takes them to trailer camps, bingo halls, laundromats and ultimately, a showdown with a group of unconventional bad guys. (imdb)
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    F.I.S.T.
    Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob. (imdb)
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    Walker
    William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat. All is being financed by an American multimillionaire who has his own interest in this country. (imdb)
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    A Deadly Vision
    A waitress who has psychic visions of murders before they happen is asked by a police detective to help find a serial killer. (imdb)
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    Turk 182!
    Jimmy Lynch is angry because his older brother, who was injured as a result of an off duty fire rescue, is denied benefits by the city. At the same time, Mayor Tyler is embroiled in a political scandal that he denies all previous knowledge of. Jimmy begins painting "Tyler Knew, Turk 182" as an embarrassment to the mayor. The mayor is furious at this grafitti appearing all over the city and orders the police to find the artist. Jimmy's "Turk 182" spraypaints continue to appear. (imdb)
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    Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
    This movie is suppose to be a sequel to the movie which starred Jean-Claude Van Damme. Only now the movie revolves around the brother of the character that Van Damme played. David Sloan is the brother Van Damme's Kurt Sloan. He runs a Karate gym. Now Mr. Sangha, the Thai government official who handles Tong Po, the brutal kickboxer whom Van Damme in the previous movie, wishes that Tong Po would have another shot at Kurt Sloan. (imdb)
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    The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. As a small time hood Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank robbing/kidnapping hoodlum chums. But who else is dealing with the feds? Who gets the blame for snitching on the bank robbers? (imdb)
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    All Roads Lead Home
    The story is about a 12-year old girl (Belle) who loses her mother in an automobile accident. Her father (Cody) struggles with the loss of his wife and trying to raise a young girl who believes her father is partly responsible for her mother's death. Hock, Belle's maternal grandfather, has trouble communicating with Belle after the accident because she reminds him too much of her mother. It is Atticus the new puppy that will change Belle's life and everyone else's around her. (wikipedia.org)
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    Group Madness
    Documentary on the making of "Yellowbeard"
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    Solar Crisis
    A multi-national journey to the sun in 2050 is in order when a sunspot threatens the earth's weather patterns, and thus the survival of the planet. (TCM.com)
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    Kid Blue
    Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Ft. Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto is it revealed that Bickford is actually the notorious train robber Kid Blue... (imdb)
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    Crazy Joe
    The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo. (imdb)
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    Killer
    A professional assassin, having just "cleaned up" a botched "job," is pressured into another new assignment by his boss. He is beginning to find himself off-balanced and self-questioning about his chosen career, when he is thrown into complete turmoil by the unusual nature of this latest "hit." . (imdb)
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    T.R. Baskin
    An idealistic young woman arrives in Chicago with hopes of finding romance, adventure and a fulfilling career.
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    Born to Be Wild
    Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the gorilla takes her back to become a flea market freak Rick takes it upon himself to break Katie out and take her on an adventurous journey to get her out of the country. (imdb)
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    Disaster at Silo 7
    During routine maintenance of a liquid-fuelled ICBM, the fuel tank is penetrated by a falling spanner. The film traces the efforts of the maintenance crew and associated military and civilian personnel to recover the potentially disastrous situation before the fuel tank is sufficiently depressurised that the stack collapses and explodes. (imdb)
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    The Surgeon
    Small boy witnesses his brother being killed in surgery, grows up to become a monster with a scalpel. (imdb)
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    FTA
    A documentary about a political troupe headed by actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland which traveled to towns near military bases in the US in the early 1970s. The group put on shows called "F.T.A.", which stood for "F**k the Army", and was aimed at convincing soldiers to voice their opposition to the Vietnam War, which was raging at the time. Various singers, actors and other entertainers performed antiwar songs and skits during the show. (imdb)
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    Men of Respect
    MacBeth-as-mafioso.
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    Poochinski
    Poochinski (1990) - TV Special
    The talking bulldog at a policeman's feet turns out to be his late partner.
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    Urban Crossfire
    A cop's partner is killed, now he wants revenge. (imdb)
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    From Here to Eternity
    From Here to Eternity (1979) - TV Mini-Series
    Soapy look at events of Pearl Harbor just previous to the Japanese attack. (imdb)
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    Ghost in the Noonday Sun
    A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he just murdered to help him find the loot. (imdb)
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    Final Vendetta
    The tale of a yuppie couple (Matsuda, Cohen) unable to conceive and desperate for a child. They enlist the services of Jennifer (Wilson) to act as surrogate mother. Unbeknownst to the couple, Jennifer has an ulterior motive to this union - to exact revenge for a childhood tragedy which has had a deep, malevolent effect on her. Jennifer moves in with the couple, and during her pregnancy, will allow nothing (or no one) to stop her in her quest for a "final vendetta."
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    Challenger
    Challenger (1990) - TV Movie
    This film profiles the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its explosion upon takeoff. Center point of the film is the safety inspections and arguments surrounding the use of the o-rings that ultimately were blamed for the explosion. Film is lent authenticity by being filmed at the Johnson Space Center in Texas. (imdb)
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    Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
    A made-for-cable-TV docudrama about the trial of the men accused of conspiring to cause protesters to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Combines in an innovative manner dramatic recreations (largely faithful to the actual trial transcripts) with documentary footage and interviews with the actual defendants. (imdb)
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    Echoes in the Darkness
    Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Township in Pennsylvania, a case that lasted seven years. (imdb)
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    Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North
    Follow the military career of Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North beginning with his Naval Academy days through to his role in the Iran-Contra scandal. (allmovie.com)
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    Everybody Loves Raymond
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    Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
    He betrayed his family, friends, and country. Why?
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    Tail Gunner Joe
    A dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
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    Cuentos de Borges
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