I met him [John Lennon] accidentally the night of the Troubadour incident; I met him when I was doing Young Frankenstein. And then I met my wife, who was doing an article for Rolling Stone on Mel Brooks, and also at the same time doing an article on Harry Nilsson and John. John was producing Harry's record. We went over to the record studio and met John, who was with May Pang at the time. And we hit it off and we had a lot to talk about - drugs, God, infinity, primal scream therapy, gurus, all the things of the '60s and '70s.

-- Peter Boyle[1]

 

Peter Lawrence Boyle (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor. He is known for his character actor roles in film and television and received several awards including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He is best known for his role as the patriarch Frank Barone on the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond from 1996 to 2005. For his role he received seven nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. For his role as Clyde Bruckman in the Fox science-fiction drama The X-Files in 1996 he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. On film, he starred as the comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof Young Frankenstein (1974). He won praise in both comedic and dramatic parts including in Joe (1970), The Candidate (1972), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), Slither (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), and Hardcore (1979). He later took supporting roles in The Santa Clause (1994), While You Were Sleeping (1995), Monster's Ball (2001), and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004).

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