Emmy winner Peter Boyle's earliest career milestone, the title role of a violent, bigoted factory worker in 1970's "Joe," nearly typecast the Pennsylvania native as the antithesis of Boyle's own character as a onetime member of a Catholic teaching order and an antiwar activist in the '70s. But the tall, intense actor resisted offers to play more brutal screen roles to notch an indelible comic triumph as the outsized yet endearing Monster in Mel Brooks' 1974 classic, "Young Frankenstein." Boyle's gallery of character roles ranged from his philosophical cabbie in "Taxi Driver" to an Emmy-nominated performance as Sen. Joe McCarthy, spanning comedies, dramas, science fiction and sitcoms, culminating in his best-known role as curmudgeon Frank Barone in "Everybody Loves Raymond" from 1997 until 2005.

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