FrameThrower · Actors · Peter Boyle
Peter Boyle
4 films · 285 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1976–2004
Born 18 October 1935 · Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA · died 12 December 2006
Peter Lawrence Boyle, Jr. 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.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 285 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1976–2004
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series1996
- Judith Wright Prize2010
How their films are shot
Measured across 285 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Peter takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 70% of their frames are night, 59% low key — the look of the work Peter takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 285 frames from Peter Boyle's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.