NBC News<\/a>. No cause of death was provided.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cNobody played a bad guy better than Peter,\u201d Edwards told NBC News. \u201cBut he also had, you know, a gentle side that most people never saw, and a heart as big as gold.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe New Jersey-born Greene specialized in playing criminals, mobsters, and corrupt cops, as best exemplified by a trio of roles he landed in the mid-Nineties. He was perhaps best known for playing a sadistic, rapist security guard Zed in 1994\u2019s Pulp Fiction, whose death by \u201cmedieval\u201d means led Bruce Willis to deliver the oft-quoted \u201cZed\u2019s dead, baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n\tGreene followed up that noteworthy role by playing the main mobster Dorian Tyrell in the Jim Carrey comic action film The Mask, and then portrayed \u201cthe fence\u201d Redfoot in 1995\u2019s The Usual Suspects.<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe actor first came to prominence with an acclaimed turn as a schizophrenic man in the 1993 indie film Clean, Shaven. Throughout the Nineties, Greene would appear in films like Judgment Night, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, and Blue Streak. Other notable roles over the past two decades include a corrupt narcotics officer in 2001\u2019s Training Day and appearances on episodes of Hawaii Five-O, Justified, Chicago PD, and the John Wick spinoff series The Continental.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cHe was one of the best character actors on the planet,\u201d his manager Edwards told Deadline<\/a>. \u201cHe was a good friend who would give you the shirt off his back. He was loved and will be missed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Character actor who specialized in criminals and corrupt cops also appeared in The Usual Suspects, Training Day, and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":444850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,32175,9455,204775,55094,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-444849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-obit","11":"tag-obituary","12":"tag-peter-greene","13":"tag-pulp-fiction","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444849","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=444849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}