Peter Boyle, Requiescat in pace.

Another Philadelphia native! My favorite movie of his was The Dream Team.

Peter Boyle, best known to today's television viewers as Raymond's cranky father on "Everybody Loves Raymond," has died. He was 71.

The actor died Tuesday evening at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He had been suffering from multiple myeloma and heart disease, said his publicist, Jennifer Plante.

Boyle, whose lovably rude exclamation of "Holy Crap!" was his signature line on the hit sitcom, had a long career in Hollywood.

A member of the Christian Brothers (!!!!!!!! - F.G.) religious order who turned to acting, the tall, prematurely balding Boyle gained notice in the title role of the 1970 sleeper hit "Joe," playing an angry, murderous bigot at odds with the emerging hippie youth culture.

Briefly typecast in tough, irate roles, Boyle began to escape the image as Robert Redford's campaign manager in "The Candidate" and left it behind entirely after "Young Frankenstein," Mel Brooks' 1974 send-up of horror films. The latter movie's defining moment came when Gene Wilder, as scientist Frederick Frankenstein, introduced his creation to an upscale audience. Boyle, decked out in tails, performed a song-and-dance routine to the Irving Berlin classic "Puttin' On the Ritz."