Press: Raymond dad Peter Boyle dies in NYC - AP

"Boyle had first come to the public's attention more than a quarter of a century before Raymond, in the critically acclaimed Joe. He met his wife, Loraine Alterman, on the set of Young Frankenstein when she visited as a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine and Boyle, still in monster makeup, asked her for a date. [...]

The son of a local TV personality in Philadelphia, Boyle was educated in Roman Catholic schools and spent three years in a monastery before abandoning his religious studies. He later described the experience as similar to 'living in the Middle Ages.'"