{"id":445075,"date":"2025-12-13T20:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/445075\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T20:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:54:17","slug":"pulp-fiction-actor-peter-greene-found-dead-in-new-york-apartment-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/445075\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulp Fiction actor Peter Greene found dead in New York apartment | Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Greene, the actor known for his roles in Pulp Fiction<\/a> and The Mask, has died at the age of 60.<\/p>\n

He was found dead at his New York<\/a> City apartment on Friday, his manager said, and the cause of death has not been disclosed.<\/p>\n

Police told the New York Post that no foul play was suspected.<\/p>\n

Greene drew praise for the various villains he played during his career including his portrayal of Zed, a rapist security guard in Quentin Tarantino\u2019s 1994 film Pulp Fiction, and Dorian in the Jim Carrey movie The Mask in the same year.<\/p>\n

His manager Gregg Edwards told NBC News: \u201cNobody played a bad guy better than Peter. But he also had a gentle side that most people never saw, and a heart as big as gold.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edwards added: \u201cHe was a terrific guy. Truly 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

Greene won the best actor prize at the 1994 Taormina film festival for his role in Lodge Kerrigan\u2019s Clean, Shaven, in which he played a man with schizophrenia.<\/p>\n

He later parlayed his success into roles in numerous films including The Usual Suspects, Under Siege 2 and Training Day alongside Denzel Washington.<\/p>\n

Greene\u2019s other credits include the action film Judgment Night, the Halle Berry thriller The Rich Man\u2019s Wife, Blue Streak and the Jennifer Aniston action comedy The Bounty Hunter.<\/p>\n

The actor, who was born in Montclair, New Jersey, leaves behind a sister and a brother.<\/p>\n

In a rare interview in 2011, Greene admitted he initially turned down the role in Pulp Fiction due to its content.<\/p>\n

He told The Sissy Gamache Show: \u201cWhen I got the script, I was thoroughly disappointed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way it was written wasn\u2019t my cup of tea. If you ever saw Deliverance, you never saw the guy who took Ned Beatty and made him \u2018squeal like a pig\u2019 ever again, so I didn\u2019t think it was a great career move.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Tarantino kept pursuing him to take the role and eventually allowed Greene to alter the scene to his preference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Greene, the actor known for his roles in Pulp Fiction and The Mask, has died at the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":445076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-445075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115714252533410811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445075","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=445075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}