{"id":314283,"date":"2025-12-13T18:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314283\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:12:08","slug":"pulp-fiction-actor-peter-greene-found-dead-in-new-york-apartment-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/314283\/","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":2,"featured_media":314284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-314283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}