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. Description above from the Wikipedia arti...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2025
as Self
THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VHS mixtapes from the crackpots at AGFA—including tw...

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #4: Follow Your Own Star
2020
as Self
Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #4: FOLLOW YOUR OWN STAR is a brand new compilation of...

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018
as Self (archive footage)
At the age of 91, Mel Brooks is unstoppable, with his musical "Young Frankenstein" opening to great critical acclaim in London in late 2017. Alan Yent...

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live television — with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows — ...

All Roads Lead Home
2008
as Poovey
The story is about a 12 year old girl who loses her mother in an automobile accident. Her father struggles with the loss of his wife and trying to rai...

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
2006
as Father Time
Now that Santa and Mrs. Claus have the North Pole running smoothly, the Counsel of Legendary Figures has called an emergency meeting on Christmas Eve!...

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004
as Self
The top 100 songs of the past 100 years chosen by the American Film Institute are presented by host-actor John Travolta.

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
2004
as Old Man Wickles
After solving their last mystery at Spooky Island, the Mystery Inc. gang is back in Coolsville, where they are being honored with their very own exhib...

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
2002
as Howard Hanssen
True story about the cat and mouse game between the FBI trying to find a Soviet mole in their ranks and Robert Hanssen, one of the top FBI agents and ...

The Santa Clause 2
2002
as Father Time (uncredited)
Better watch out! The big guy in red is coming to town once again. This time, Scott Calvin -- also known as Santa Claus -- finds out there's an obscur...

The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2002
as Rowland
The year is 2087, the setting is the moon. Pluto Nash, the high-flying successful owner of the hottest nightclub in the universe, finds himself in tro...

Monster's Ball
2001
as Buck Grotowski
A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he presided over.

Making 'Taxi Driver'
1999
as Self
A behind the scenes snapshot of the making of one of the greatest films ever made. Filled with trivia, interviews from cast and crew, and more.

Doctor Dolittle
1998
as Calloway
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a chi...

Species II
1998
as Dr. Herman Cromwell
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to ...

A Deadly Vision
1997
as Det. Salvatore DaVinci
A waitress who has psychic visions of murders before they happen is asked by a police detective to help find a serial killer.

That Darn Cat
1997
as Pa
While making his nightly rounds in the neighborhood, Patti's pet cat D.C. finds himself the carrier of a call for help from a kidnap victim. Patti enl...

Milk & Money
1996
as Belted Galloway
When David drops out of medical school, he finds out what life isn't really like. He meets beautiful women, holds a box, helps make a movie, and takes...

Sweet Evil
1996
as Jay Glass
A couple unable to naturally conceive recruit a young woman to act as their surrogate. She falls pregnant with their baby and moves into their home. B...

In the Lake of the Woods
1996
as Tony Carbo
John Waylan is a candidate for U.S. senator; near the end of the campaign he is accused of ordering and participating in a massacre in a Vietnamese vi...

Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
1996
as Frankenstein's Monster (archive footage)
Via reminiscences from writer/actor Gene Wilder and others, this documentary recalls the making of the 1974 film Young Frankenstein.

While You Were Sleeping
1995
as Ox Callaghan
A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancé...

Born to Be Wild
1995
as Gus Charnley
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 ...

The Surgeon
1995
as Lt. McEllwaine
Dr. Julian Mater is suspended and gets his license revoked for performing experiments on dying patients in cellular regeneration. A couple of years la...

The Santa Clause
1994
as Mr. Whittle
On Christmas Eve, divorced dad Scott Calvin and his son discover Santa Claus has fallen off their roof. When Scott takes the reins of the magical slei...

Killer
1994
as George
Cynical hit man Mick is tiring of his job and asks his boss George for time off. However, George gives him the assignment of his life, prompting Mick'...

Royce
1994
as Huggins
Royce is a member of the ultra-secret service "Black Hole", working for the US Government on top-secret missions. When the senator responsible for for...

The Shadow
1994
as Moe Shrevnitz
Based on the 1930s comic strip, The Shadow is put up against his archenemy Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom u...

Taking the Heat
1993
as Judge
When Michael Norell witnesses a murder, he doesn't want to testify but he is forced to by the police. A cop is ordered to bring him to the court, but ...

Malcolm X
1992
as Captain Green
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he b...

In the Line of Duty: Street War
1992
as Det. Dan Reilly
In this gritty cops-and-crooks drama, two detectives hunt a gang leader suspected of murdering a New York cop. The detectives enlist the help of the d...

Honeymoon in Vegas
1992
as Chief Orman
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. T...

Solar Crisis
1992
as Arnold Teague
A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial...

Death and the Compass
1992
as Lonnrot
In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series o...

Nervous Ticks
1992
as Ron Rudman
A comedy about a man (Bill Pullman), who is on the run after his mistress (Julie Brown) confesses to her husband (Peter Boyle) that the two of them ha...

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991
as Self (archive footage)
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.

Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
1991
as Justin Maciah
In this rousing sequel to Kickboxer, Tong Po broods about his defeat at the hands of Kurt Sloan. Po and his managers resort to drastic measures to goa...
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
as The Monster (archive footage)
Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual look at the history of Frankenstein on the screen.

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1990
as Fred Ford
Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Men Of Respect
1990
as Matt Duffy
In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts...

Poochinski
1990
as Stanley Poochinski
The talking bulldog at a policeman's feet turns out to be his late partner.

Challenger
1990
as Roger Boisjoly
A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its e...
27 Wagons Full of Cotton
1990
as Jake
In order to boost his own cotton ginning business, Jake Meighan sets the local Syndicate Plantation ablaze. the superintendent of the Syndicate Planta...

Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North
1989
as Adm. John Poindexter
Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North follows the military career of Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, beginning with his Naval Academy days t...

Speed Zone
1989
as Chief Edsel
An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distre...

The Dream Team
1989
as Jack McDermott
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accident...

Disaster at Silo 7
1988
as Gen. Sanger
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 ...

Red Heat
1988
as Lou Donnelly
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord w...

Funny
1988
as Self
People are asked to tell their favorite jokes.

Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
1988
as Jimmy Malone
A humourous telling of the history of the comic book superhero.

The In Crowd
1988
as "Uncle Pete" Boyle
A young man of the rock and roll generation is in his senior year of high school. When one day he successfully gets on a popular teen dance television...

Walker
1987
as Cornelius Vanderbilt
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.

Echoes in the Darkness
1987
as Sgt. Joe Van Nort
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 Townshi...

Surrender
1987
as Jay
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 wo...

Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
1987
as David Dellinger
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 ...

Turk 182!
1985
as Det. Ryan
After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incurred during the off-duty rescue of a young girl, h...

Johnny Dangerously
1984
as Dundee
An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

Yellowbeard
1983
as Moon
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sent...

Group Madness
1983
as Self
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard

Hammett
1982
as Jimmy Ryan
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living...

Outland
1981
as Mark Sheppard
On the sunless moon Io, Marshall William T. O’Niel goes toe-to-toe with the corrupt manager of a mining colony and his gang of roughnecks while invest...

In God We Tru$t
1980
as Dr. Sebastian Melmoth
A naive monk, named Brother Ambrose, is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5,000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to Holly...

Where the Buffalo Roam
1980
as Carl Lazlo, Esq.
Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979
as Frank Mazzetti
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 sti...

Hardcore
1979
as Andy Mast
A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in search of his runaway teenage daughter who’s making hardcore ...

The Brink's Job
1978
as Joe McGinnis
In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McG...

F.I.S.T.
1978
as Max Graham
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 ...

Tail Gunner Joe
1977
as Joseph McCarthy
Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later plann...

Swashbuckler
1976
as Lord Durant
A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.

Taxi Driver
1976
as Wizard
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for ...

Young Frankenstein
1974
as Frankenstein's Monster
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a prett...

Crazy Joe
1974
as Joe
The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.

The Man Who Could Talk to Kids
1973
as Charlie Datweiler
An emotionally disturbed young boy shuts out all of his family and friends. A counselor tries to help bring him and his family together again.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1973
as Dillon
An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously suppl...

Slither
1973
as Barry Fenaka
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 ...

Steelyard Blues
1973
as Eagle Thornberry
A group of misfits decide to leave for a place that they can all be free. Their mode of transportation is a PBY flying boat. The only problem is that ...

Kid Blue
1973
as Preacher Bob
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's ...

Ghost in the Noonday Sun
1973
as Ras Mohammed
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 an...

FTA
1972
as Self
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 ...

The Candidate
1972
as Marvin Lucas
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.

T.R. Baskin
1971
as Jack Mitchell
Enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city and has to searc...

Diary of a Mad Housewife
1970
as Man in Group Therapy Session
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, ...

Joe
1970
as Joe Curran
After murdering his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend, a wealthy ad executive stumbles into a bar and strikes up an uneasy alliance with Joe Curran, a...

The Monitors
1969
as Production Manager
Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.

Medium Cool
1969
as Gun Clinic Manager
John Cassellis is the toughest TV news reporter around. After extensively reporting about violence and racial tensions in poor communities, he discove...

The Virgin President
1968
as Gen. Heath
The President of the U.S. is suceeded by his naive, wide-eyed son, and his advisors try to take advantage of the situation by planning to drop an atom...