{"id":138279,"date":"2026-02-19T01:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/138279\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T01:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:48:11","slug":"pulp-fiction-actor-peter-greene-died-from-accidental-shooting-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/138279\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pulp Fiction\u2019 actor Peter Greene died from accidental shooting \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/obituaries\/peter-greene-actor-known-pulp-fiction-mask-dead-60-rcna248976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Actor Peter Greene<\/a>, who specialized in playing villains like the sadistic security guard Zed in &#8220;Pulp Fiction,&#8221; died after he accidentally shot himself in the armpit, the New York City medical examiner said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The medical examiner&#8217;s office&#8217;s determination was released two months after Greene, 60, was found dead on Dec. 12 inside his apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cause of death: Gunshot wound of left axilla with injury of brachial artery,&#8221; it said. The death was determined to be an accident.<\/p>\n<p>The ME&#8217;s office did not provide any other details on Greene&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Greene carved out a career playing foul fiends including Dorian in the Jim Carrey movie \u201cThe Mask,\u201d which like &#8220;Pulp Fiction&#8221; also came out in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Greene also had a starring role in the 1993 film \u201cClean, Shaven,\u201d in which he played a man with schizophrenia who is suspected in a murder and who, at times, self-mutilates.<\/p>\n<p>And he played memorable parts in movies like \u201cThe Usual Suspects\u201d and \u201cTraining Day,\u201d among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Peter Greene, who specialized in playing villains like the sadistic security guard Zed in &#8220;Pulp Fiction,&#8221; died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[191,36603,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-138279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-celebrity-news","tag-in-memoriam","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}