LOS ANGELES - Peter Boyle, the tall, prematurely bald actor who was the tap-dancing monster in "Young Frankenstein" and the curmudgeonly father in the long-running sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond," has died. He was 71. Article: Actor Peter Boyle dead at 71

I'll miss Peter Boyle...he was one of the best actors of his generation. I also have a soft spot for him in my heart because he was the main character in one of my favorite X-Files episodes (I'm an X-Files freak, ya know) - "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", for which he won an Emmy. He played a man who could see how people would die, and did it so effortlessly - making such a sad, tragic character so charming and lovable. He uttered one of the best lines of the whole series - when Scully finally relented to his question, "Don't you want to know how you're going to die?" he tells her, "You don't."

Of course, most of you may know him from "Everybody Loves Raymond", where he played Ray's father in law. Or maybe "Young Frankenstein", where he danced.

So goodbye, Peter, you'll forever be Clyde to me...

Posted by Yano at December 13, 2006 01:38 PM

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