{"id":444684,"date":"2025-12-13T15:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/444684\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T15:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:20:15","slug":"peter-greene-pulp-fiction-and-the-mask-actor-found-dead-at-60-inside-his-nyc-apartment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/444684\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Greene, &#8216;Pulp Fiction&#8217; and &#8216;The Mask&#8217; actor, found dead at 60 inside his NYC apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Peter Greene, who is best known for his roles in \u201cPulp Fiction\u201d and \u201cThe Mask,\u201d has died. He was 60 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Greene was found dead in his New York City apartment on Friday, his longtime manager, Gregg Edwards, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/12\/us-news\/peter-greene-pulp-fiction-and-the-mask-actor-found-dead-at-60-inside-his-nyc-apartment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed to The Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The actor was found unresponsive inside his Lower East Side apartment on Clinton Street around 3:25 p.m., and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police and Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Peter Greene has died. He was 60 years old. \u00a9New Line Cinema\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>He is best known for his roles in \u201cPulp Fiction\u201d and \u201cThe Mask.\u201d Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Police told The Post no foul play was suspected, but that a cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a terrific guy,\u201d Edwards said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTruly one of the great actors of our generation. His heart was as big as there was. I\u2019m going to miss him. He was a great friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greene was found dead in his New York City apartment on Friday New Line Cinema<\/p>\n<p>The actor was found unresponsive inside his Lower East Side apartment on Clinton Street around 3:25 p.m. \u00a9Hollywood Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>In January 2026, Greene was supposed to start working with Mickey Rourke on an independent thriller called \u201cMascots,\u201d Edwards revealed before adding that he notified the film\u2019s writer-director, Kerry Mondrag\u00f3n, of the actor\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were very upset,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe worked with so many amazing actors and directors,\u201d Edwards continued, adding that Greene\u2019s performance as mobster Dorian Tyrell opposite Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz in \u201cThe Mask\u201d was \u201carguably his best role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>He was pronounced dead at the scene.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>He also starred in \u201cLaws of Gravity,\u201d \u201cClean, Shaven,\u201d \u201cBlue Streak\u201d and \u201cTraining Day.\u201d Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>Greene, ran away from his Montclair, New Jersey, home at 15 and lived on the streets of New York City, where he turned to drugs and dealing,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/peter-greene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he told Premier magazine in 1996.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After attempting suicide in March 1996, he sought treatment for his addictions.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from \u201cPulp Fiction\u201d and \u201cThe Mask,\u201d Greene also starred in \u201cLaws of Gravity,\u201d \u201cClean, Shaven,\u201d \u201cBlue Streak\u201d and \u201cTraining Day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Peter Greene, who is best known for his roles in \u201cPulp Fiction\u201d and \u201cThe Mask,\u201d has died.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":444685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[568,5229,1899,172,53,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-444684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-celebrity-deaths","11":"tag-celebrity-news","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115712938897969943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}