The character actor who finally got rich and garlanded in the late 1990s playing the cantankerous father on Everybody Loves Raymond died today at the age of 71. Boyle in no way resembled his character. He came up in the 1960s as a counterculture comic performer in San Francisco before scoring an unexpected triumph as an Archie Bunker-with-a-rifle in the hate-America-firstfest Joe (with Susan Sarandon, only ten years younger than he, playing a girl young enough to be his daughter). He was exceptionally versatile but somehow always seemed to end up playing a Mean White Man. And, of course, he was the co-star of one of the great dance numbers of all time. In memoriam, here’s a YouTube clip of his legendary terpsichore.