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  • Young Frankenstein
  • Young Frankenstein review by from the Midlands
    Rated - 4 stars A Comedy Classic 24 January 2004
    ... this has some genuinely funny moments with some great acting from the likes of Peter Boyle (Dream Team) and Gene Wilder (Blazing Saddles) this DVD brings back life into t...  
  • The Dream Team
  • The Dream Team review by from London
    Rated - 4 stars What a team! 10 August 2005
    ...(Michael Keaton), an obsessive compulsive (Christopher Lloyd), a Jesus fanatic (Peter Boyle) and an almost catatonic individual try to blend into the Big Apple. A great...  
  • Where The Buffalo Roam
  • Where The Buffalo Roam review by russio from Harlow
    Rated - 1 stars Film of the Doomed 14 March 2008
    ...s - an impression. And the person most impressed by it is Murray himself. Peter Boyle fares slightly better, but it is only in the presence of a (then) competent act...  

Peter Boyle - filmography


  • That Darn Cat on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Christina Ricci,  Doug E. Doug,  Dean Jones
    Director: Bob Spiers
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Twenty-two years after the original, Christina Ricci takes Hayley Mills' role as the smalltown teenager whose assertive tomcat D.C. unravels a kidnapping plot like a ball of yarn, much to the chagrin of the bungling kidnappers. Based on the novel "Undercover Cat" by The Gordons. After starring in ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 584 members
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  • Death And The Compass on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Peter Boyle,  Christopher Eccleston,  Miguel Sandoval
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Alex Cox (REPO MAN) directed this stylized adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges labyrinthine detective story about a totalitarian city of the future plagued by a rash of bizarre crimes. Peter Boyle stars as Lonnrot, a decidedly even headed detective prone to philosophizing and Christopher Eccleston is ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 42% from 161 members
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  • The Santa Clause on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Judge Reinhold,  Tim Allen,  Wendy Crewson
    Director: John Pasquin
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    When Santa Claus gets killed in a freak accident after being startled on the rooftop of a house, it looks like Christmas is ruined. But fortunately, just before his death, the jolly, gift-giver passed the torch to ad executive Scott Calvin (Tim Allen), who finishes the job of bestowing holiday ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 5,852 members
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  • The Shadow on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Adam Baldwin,  John Lone,  Penelope Ann Miller
    Director: Russell Mulcahy
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Shadow was once a vicious criminal who was captured by a mystic who taught him the powers of the mind to become the nemesis of all evil. In this adventure he pits his wits against the last living descendant of Ghengis Khan who plans to take over the world.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 817 members
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  • Honeymoon In Vegas on DVD (1992)
    Starring: James Caan,  Nicolas Cage,  Sarah Jessica Parker
    Director: Andrew Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Private detective Jack Singer (Nicholas Cage) promised his mother, on her deathbed, that he would never marry. Now his girlfriend Betsy (Sarah Jessica Parker) is threatening to leave him if he doesn't marry her. Jack decides, despite his fear and guilt, to give in to Betsy's demands. They fly off ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,295 member
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  • Red Heat on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger,  James Belushi,  Peter Boyle
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After scoring a hit with the Eddie Murphy-Nick Nolte cop thriller 48 Hours, director Walter Hill returned to the buddy formula with this half-ridiculous, half-invigorating action flick about humourless Russian cop Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger). He follows a drug dealer from Moscow to Chicago, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 4,940 members
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  • Echoes In The Darkness on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Peter Boyle,  Stockard Channing,  Gary Cole
    Director: Glenn Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A gripping true story which begins in 1979 with the discovery of a naked battered body. A Gothic tale of deception and horror which ends seven years later after one of the biggest homicide investigations in history. Based on the novel 'Echoes In The Darkness' by Joseph Wambaugh.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 58 members
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  • Yellowbeard on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Graham Chapman,  Peter Boyle,  Peter Cook
    Director: Mel Damski
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The comic saga of an infamous pirate who has just been released from the prison where he spent the last 15 years. He soon makes up for lost time.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 217 members
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  • Hardcore on DVD (1979)
    Starring: George C. Scott,  Peter Boyle,  Season Hubley
    Director: Paul Schrader
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When the daughter of devoutly religious midwestern businessman Jake Van Dorn (George C. Scott) disappears on a trip to Los Angeles sponsored by the family's Calvinist church, Jake's search for his daughter, Niki (Season Hubley), leads him into a shocking world of pornography. HARDCORE, an early ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 324 members
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  • Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Sally Field,  Telly Savalas
    Director: Irwin Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Picking up where the "Poseidon Adventure" left off, this action packed yarn tells the story of how a group of rescue workers descend on the overturned Poseidon to try and salvage the remnants of the crippled ship. Among them, posing as a medic, is the nefarious Captain Svevo, who arrives in order ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 33 members
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  • F.I.S.T. on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Sylvester Stallone,  Rod Steiger,  Peter Boyle
    Director: Norman Jewison
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Stallone plays a Jimmy Hoffa-type in this well-conceived drama about powerful bunions. As Johnny Kovak, an honest factory worker, Stallone takes on mobsters, union corruption and a crooked US senator after being forced to stand up for his rights. After cutting a deal with the blob, he finds he may ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 302 members
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  • Young Frankenstein on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Gene Wilder,  Peter Boyle,  Marty Feldman
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An affectionate parody that pays homage to the FRANKENSTEIN films (from the novel FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley) directed by James Whale in the 1930s, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is both a zany comedy and cinematic tour de force. Written by director Mel Brooks and the star of the film, Gene Wilder, YOUNG ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 6,000 members
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  • Joe on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Peter Boyle,  Dennis Patrick,  Audrey Caire
    Director: John G. Avildsen
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Bill is a wealthy businessman whose beautiful, promising daughter has just decided to run away with her heroin-addicted boyfriend. Whilst wandering the city streets in search his daughter, Bill takes refuge in a downtown bar where he meets Joe, a frustrated, patriotic, bigoted and hateful factory ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 252 members
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  • Rumi - The Wings Of Love / Come To Life,...
    Starring: Peter Boyle
    Director: Shems Friedlander
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Two features. In 'Rumi - The Wings Of Love' the viewer is invited to share the secret world of Mevlevi ceremonies based on the teachings of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, a Sufi master and mystic poet who died eight hundred years ago. Also features 'Come To Life, Al-Mayha'.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 20% from 1 member
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  • All Roads Lead Home
    Starring: Peter Coyote,  Jason London,  Peter Boyle
    Director: Dennis Fallon
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Twelve-year-old Belle loses her mother in an automobile accident. Her father Cody struggles to raise his daughter. Her rebellious behavior forces Cody to send Belle to her grandfather's farm to live with him. Belle learns that on a farm, it is the survival of the fittest, but she cannot handle the ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 3 members
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  • Death and the Compass to Watch Now (1992)
    Starring: Pedro Armendáriz Jr.,  Pedro Armendariz Jr.,  Bruno Bichir
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 86 minutes
    Death and the Compass, one of Cox's most ambitious, inspired and visually stunning films, is a deliciously dark adaptation of the short story by acclaimed Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. In a totalitarian metropolis of the future (shot on location in Mexico City), Erik Lonnrot (Peter Boyle) is ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 9 members
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  • The Friends of Eddie Coyle to Watch Now (1973)
    Starring: Robert Mitchum,  Peter Boyle,  Richard Jordan
    Director: Peter Yates
    Certificate: Certificate: 18 (TBC)
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    Run time: 102 minutes
    Based on the best-selling novel by George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle chronicles the last days of a weary Boston-based weapons dealer. Eddie Coyle (Robert Mitchum) doesn't want to serve a life sentence in prison, so he becomes an informant for both the police and the treasury department. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6 members
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  • T.R. Baskin to Watch Now (1971)
    Starring: Candice Bergen,  Peter Boyle,  James Caan
    Director: Herbert Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC (TBC)
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    Run time: 90 minutes
    Candice Bergen plays the title character, a naive young woman from the countryside who ventures to the bright lights of Chicago in search of an interesting career, true love, and happiness. She ends up working a meaningless job and living in a drab apartment, and she remains lonely as her romantic ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1 member
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Peter Boyle facts

5 most recent films

Scooby Doo 2 - Monsters Unleashed - 3.0 stars
Monster's Ball - 3.0 stars
That Darn Cat - 2.5 stars
Death And The Compass - 2.0 stars
While You Were Sleeping - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Everybody Loves Raymond - Series 9 - 4.0 stars
Everybody Loves Raymond - Series 8 - 4.0 stars
The X-Files - Essentials - 4.0 stars
Everybody Loves Raymond - Series 6 - 3.5 stars
Taxi Driver - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

In The Line Of Duty - Street War - 1.0 stars
Rumi - The Wings Of Love / Come To Life, Al-Mahya - 2.0 stars
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure - 2.5 stars
The Brink's Job - 2.5 stars
Hammett - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Doris Roberts - 5 times - show films
Brad Garrett - 5 times - show films
Ray Romano - 5 times - show films
Patricia Heaton - 5 times - show films
James Caan - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 3 times - show films
Gary Halvorson - 3 times - show films
Jerry Zaks - 3 times - show films
Kenneth Shapiro - 2 times - show films
Andrew Bergman - 2 times - show films