Peter Boyle is a Actor and Editor American born on 18 october 1935 at Norristown (USA)
Peter Boyle
Peter Boyle participated to
61 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
10 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Actor
, 1h25
Directed by Betty ThomasOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
FantasyThemes Films about animals,
Children's filmsActors Eddie Murphy,
Sandra Bullock,
Ossie Davis,
Eileen Ryan,
Oliver Platt,
Candice BergenRoles Calloway
Rating54%
Young John Dolittle talks to his dog (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres), who explains dogs sniff each other's butts as a way of greeting, and John does so when meeting his new principal. This behavior concerns his father (Ossie Davis), who hires the local minister to perform an exorcism. When John is scared his dog attacks the minister, and his father gives the dog up for adoption. The incident greatly upsets John and he stops talking to animals., 1h37
Directed by John Pasquin,
Jon StoneOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
FantasyThemes Christmas films,
Children's films,
Santa Claus in filmActors Tim Allen,
Eric Lloyd,
Wendy Crewson,
Judge Reinhold,
David Krumholtz,
Peter BoyleRoles Mr. Whittle
Rating65%
Scott Calvin is a divorced 38-year-old advertising executive, who is also a father to his son Charlie. Charlie's mother, Laura, is now married to psychiatrist Neil Miller. After Scott reads "A Visit from St. Nicholas" to Charlie on Christmas Eve, he and Charlie are awakened that night by sounds on the roof. After confronting a man on the roof, who inadvertently falls off when Scott startles him, then vanishes leaving his Santa Claus outfit behind, they discover eight reindeer on the roof and Charlie convinces Scott to put on the suit and finish Santa's work for him. As the morning comes, the reindeer return to the North Pole to Santa's Workshop, where the head elf Bernard explains that, due to a clausical contract written on a card Scott found on Santa, in putting on the suit and entering the sleigh he has accepted the "Santa Clause" and has agreed to the responsibilities of that position. He tells a skeptical Scott that he has eleven months to get his affairs in order before reporting to the workshop at Thanksgiving permanently., 1h43
Directed by Jon TurteltaubOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Christmas films,
Transport films,
Rail transport filmsActors Sandra Bullock,
Bill Pullman,
Peter Gallagher,
Peter Boyle,
Glynis Johns,
Jack WardenRoles Ox Callaghan
Rating68%
Lucy Eleanor Moderatz (Sandra Bullock) is a lonely fare token collector for the Chicago Transit Authority. She has a secret crush on a handsome commuter named Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher), although they are complete strangers. On Christmas Day, she rescues him from an oncoming train after a group of muggers push him onto the tracks. He falls into a coma, and she accompanies him to the hospital, where a nurse overhears her musing aloud, "I was going to marry him." Misinterpreting her, the nurse tells his family that she is his fiancée., 1h33
Directed by Raja GosnellOrigin USAGenres Fantastic,
Comedy,
Horror comedy,
Fantasy,
Action,
AdventureThemes Films about animals,
Films about dogs,
Ghost films,
Comedy horror films,
Children's films,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors Freddie Prinze, Jr.,
Sarah Michelle Prinze,
Matthew Lillard,
Linda Cardellini,
Seth Green,
Peter BoyleRoles Old Man Wickles
Rating52%
Mystery Inc. (Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo) attend the opening of an exhibition at the Coolsonian Criminology Museum commemorating their past solved cases with monster costumes on display. However, the celebrations are interrupted by the Evil Masked Figure who steals two costumes using the reanimated Pterodactyl Ghost. The gang are ridiculed by journalist Heather Jasper Howe who starts a smear campaign against them. Concluding an old enemy is the mastermind, the gang revisit old cases, dismissing the former Pterodactyl Ghost, Jonathan Jacobo, due to his death during a failed prison escape, they guess Jeremiah Wickles, the Black Knight Ghost’s portrayer, is the culprit., 1h41
Directed by Mel Brooks,
Gene WilderOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Comedy,
Horror comedy,
HorrorThemes Films about computing,
Films based on science fiction novels,
Comedy science fiction films,
Frankenstein films,
Comedy horror films,
Cyberpunk films,
Children's filmsActors Gene Wilder,
Peter Boyle,
Marty Feldman,
Madeline Kahn,
Cloris Leachman,
Teri GarrRoles Frankenstein's Monster
Rating79%
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) is a physician lecturer at an American medical school and engaged to the tightly wound socialite Elizabeth (Madeline Kahn). He becomes exasperated when anyone brings up the subject of his grandfather, the infamous mad scientist. To disassociate himself from his forebear, Frederick insists that his surname is pronounced "Fronkensteen.", 1h51
Directed by Marc ForsterOrigin USAGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Prison films,
Films about racism,
Films about capital punishmentActors Billy Bob Thornton,
Halle Berry,
Heath Ledger,
Peter Boyle,
Sean Combs,
Mos DefRoles Buck Grotowski
Rating70%
Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton), a widower, and his son, Sonny (Heath Ledger), are corrections officers in a local state prison. They reside in Georgia with Hank's ailing father, Buck (Peter Boyle), a racist whose wife committed suicide., 1h43
Directed by Walter HillOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Comedy,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Political films,
Buddy films,
Gangster filmsActors Arnold Schwarzenegger,
James Belushi,
Peter Boyle,
Ed O'Ross,
Laurence Fishburne,
Gina GershonRoles Lou Donnelly
Rating61%
Captain Ivan Danko of the Moscow Police sets a trap for Viktor Rostavili, a Georgian drug kingpin and crime lord. The ambush severely backfires; Viktor flees the Soviet Union and comes to the USA, after gunning down several other Moscow cops, including Danko's partner., 1h49
Directed by Martin Scorsese,
Todd PhillipsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Films about sexuality,
Transport films,
Films about the labor movement,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Films about automobiles,
Erotic thriller films,
Auto-justiceActors Robert De Niro,
Jodie Foster,
Albert Brooks,
Harvey Keitel,
Peter Boyle,
Cybill ShepherdRoles Wizard
Rating81%
Travis Bickle, an honorably discharged U.S. Marine, is a lonely and depressed man in New York City. He becomes a taxi driver to cope with chronic insomnia, driving passengers every night around the boroughs of New York City. He also spends time in seedy porn theaters and keeps a diary. Travis becomes infatuated with Betsy, a campaign volunteer for Senator and presidential candidate Charles Palantine. After watching her interact with fellow worker Tom through her window, Travis enters to volunteer as a pretext to talk to her, and takes her out for coffee. On a later date, he takes her to see a Swedish sex education film, which offends her, and she goes home alone. His attempts at reconciliation by sending flowers are rebuffed, so he berates her at the campaign office, before being kicked out by Tom., 1h52
Directed by Peter HyamsOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Space adventure films,
Dans l'espace,
Films set in the future,
Space operaActors Sean Connery,
Peter Boyle,
Frances Sternhagen,
James Sikking,
Kika Markham,
Steven BerkoffRoles Mark Sheppard
Rating65%
In the future, Federal Marshal William O'Niel (Sean Connery) is assigned to a tour of duty at the titanium ore mining outpost 'Con-Am 27' operated by the company Conglomerates Amalgamated, on the Jovian moon of Io., 1h46
Directed by Michael RitchieOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Politique,
Political filmsActors Robert Redford,
Peter Boyle,
Melvyn Douglas,
Don Porter,
Karen Carlson,
Natalie WoodRoles Marvin Lucas
Rating69%
Marvin Lucas (Peter Boyle), a political election specialist, must find a Democratic candidate to oppose California U.S. Senator Crocker Jarmon, a popular Republican. With no big-name Democrat eager to enter the unwinnable race, Lucas seeks out Bill McKay (Robert Redford), the idealistic, charismatic son of former governor John J. McKay (Melvyn Douglas).