The answer to that is half sad and half rather nice.The sad half is that Peter Boyle, who played Ray's uproariously cantankerous dad Frank, died in 2006, just a year after "Everybody Loves Raymond" signed off.

Boyle was a highly respected stage-and-screen man who, prior to "Raymond," appeared in such classic fare as the 1974 comedy "Young Frankenstein" and the 1976 action drama "Taxi Driver."

The good news is that Doris Roberts, who played Ray's doting mother Marie, is enjoying one of the brightest periods in her career. Mostly a supporting star prior to "Everybody Loves Raymond's" premiere in 1996, she was best known probably for her turn as Mildred Krebs, the receptionist on "Remington Steele," or for her role as Clark's mother-in-law in the 1989 modern holiday classic "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation."

These days, though, she's been moved increasingly to the forefront, even starring in the title role of a pair of made-for-TV movies, "Mrs. Miracle" (2009) and its sequel, "Call Me Mrs. Miracle" (2010). She's also had a few sizable big-screen turns, including the cult 2006 comedy "Grandma's Boy," playing her sweet, grandmotherly image for laughs once again.

She hasn't settled into a full-time TV role since "Raymond," but she's done guest spots on several shows, including a turn in "Hot in Cleveland" in 2011 opposite fellow funny lady Betty White, and a three-episode arc on "The Middle" in 2010-2011, opposite former "Raymond" co-star Patricia Heaton.

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