The Passing of Peter Boyle

By Paul Kedrosky · Wednesday, December 13, 2006 ·
Sad news: Actor Peter Boyle is dead. While most people today know him from the show "Everyone Loves Raymond" (which I haven't seen, pop culture troglodyte that I am), I remember him most fondly from his wonderful work in the classic Young Frankenstein.

I love many scenes in that great movie, but my outright favorite isn't the campy dance he does with Gene Wilder. Instead, it is his great scene with a blind hermit named Harold (played by a near-unrecognizable Gene Hackman).

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