Peter Boyle - biography

“I don’t think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.”

“In live stage, the actor lives.”

“I had a whole career saying, ‘Ring around the collar, honey’ and ‘Sa-aay, this fried chicken is really good.’ People would come up to me on the street and say, ‘I know you - Alka-Seltzer, right?’ You get tired of being known as Alka-Seltzer.”

“Opera?  Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.”

“I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period.”

Peter Boyle has appeared in the following films:
The Group (1966)
A Date with a Lonely Girl (1971)
The Candidate (1972)
Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1973)
Steelyard Blues (1973)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Kid Blue (1973)
Slither (1973)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Crazy Joe (1974)
Swashbuckler (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
F.I.S.T (1978)
The Brink’s Job (1978)
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
In God We Tru$t (1980)
Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
Outland (1981)
Yellowbeard (1983)
Johnny Dangerously (1984)
Surrender (1987)
Walker (1987)
The Dream Team (1989)
Speed Zone (1989)
Men of Respect (1990)
Solar Crisis (1990)
Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (1991)
Death and the Compass (1992)
Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
The Shadow (1994)
The Santa Clause (1994)
Exquisite Tenderness (1995)
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Milk & Money (1996)
Doctor Dolittle (1998)
Monster’s Ball (2001)
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
All Roads Lead Home (2008)