{"id":69988,"date":"2025-12-13T20:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/69988\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T20:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:43:14","slug":"peter-greene-dead-at-60-pulp-fiction-star-found-deceased-inside-his-nyc-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/69988\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Greene dead at 60: Pulp Fiction star found deceased inside his NYC apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Greene – known for his roles in Quentin Tarantino<\/a>‘s Pulp Fiction and The Mask – has died at the age of 60.<\/p>\n

The veteran actor was found dead inside his apartment in New York City<\/a>‘s\u00a0Lower East Side in the late afternoon on Friday, December 12.<\/p>\n

Greene’s longtime manager,\u00a0Gregg Edwards, confirmed the tragic news to The New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police told the outlet that Greene’s body was found unresponsive inside his residence at ‘around 3:25 p.m’. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

While a cause of death has yet to be determined by the medical examiner, police do not suspect foul play.<\/p>\n

Edwards, who was his manager for over 10 years, told the publication that Greene \u2014 who was known for playing iconic villains \u2014 ‘was a terrific guy’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Peter Greene – known for his roles in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and The Mask – has died at the age of 60; Seen in a still from Pulp Fiction<\/p>\n

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The veteran actor was found dead inside his apartment in New York City’s Lower East Side in the late afternoon on Friday, December 12; seen in 2010<\/p>\n

‘Truly one of the great actors of our generation. His heart was as big as there was. I’m going to miss him. He was a great friend.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Edwards said he was told music had been playing in Greene’s apartment for more than 24 hours, prompting a wellness check, according to the New York Daily News<\/a>. The publication was first to break the story about his passing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He added that he had spoken with Greene earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Greene, who also appeared in The Usual Suspects, was set to begin production in January alongside Mickey Rourke on an independent thriller titled Mascots.<\/p>\n

Edwards said that when he informed the film’s writer-director, Kerry Mondrag\u00f3n, of the actor’s death he broke down in tears.<\/p>\n

‘They were very upset,’ he shared.<\/p>\n

Greene was also set to star in State of Confusion<\/a>, a crime-drama written and directed by E.B. Hughes.<\/p>\n

Filming was scheduled for late fall 2026 in Cape May, New Jersey, and parts of New York.<\/p>\n

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While a cause of death has yet to be determined by the medical examiner, police do not suspect foul play; Greene (center) pictured with Pulp Fiction director Quentin (L) and actor\u00a0Michael Madsen, who passed away in July. Pictured in 2010<\/p>\n

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His longtime manager, Gregg Edwards, said he was told music had been playing in Greene’s apartment for more than 24 hours, prompting a wellness check; Greene pictured in 1994<\/p>\n

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Greene, who also appeared in The Usual Suspects, was set to begin production in January alongside Mickey Rourke on an independent thriller titled Mascots<\/p>\n

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Edwards said that Greene’s performance as mobster Dorian Tyrell alongside Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz in The Mask (1994) was ‘arguably his best role’; Greene seen in a still<\/p>\n

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Fans mourned the actor following the news of his passing, with one writing on X, that Greene was ‘One of Hollywood\u2019s most memorable actors’<\/p>\n

Hughes described the story as exploring a strained father-son relationship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fans mourned the actor following the news of his passing, with one writing on X, that Greene was ‘One of Hollywood\u2019s most memorable actors.’<\/p>\n

‘Any time Peter Greene popped up, you just knew he was gonna play the scuzziest villain. Such a memorable character actor. RIP,’ another added.<\/p>\n

‘I used to be so scared of him when I was little watching the Mask\u2026 RIP King.’<\/p>\n

‘Rest in peace to the man. He played some great villains in my childhood.’<\/p>\n

Edwards acknowledged that while Greene was sometimes seen as difficult to work with, he was a perfectionist who wanted each performance to feel ‘right’.<\/p>\n

Edwards added that Greene’s performance as mobster Dorian Tyrell alongside Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz in ‘The Mask’ was ‘arguably his best role’.<\/p>\n

‘He fought his demons but overcame them’ he added.<\/p>\n

Greene also portrayed Zed, a sadistic security guard and serial killer, in Tarantino’s iconic 1994 film Pulp Fiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Nobody played a bad guy better than Peter. But he also had, you know, a gentle side that most people never saw, and a heart as big as gold,’\u00a0Edwards told New York Daily News.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Greene ran away at 15 and lived on the streets of New York City.<\/p>\n

He later turned to drug use and eventually dealing, he told Premiere magazine <\/a>in 1996.<\/p>\n

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With close to 95 acting credits, Greene’s roles also included Laws of Gravity (1992), Clean, Shaven (1993), and Training Day (2001); Seen with Edie Falco on set of Laws of Gravity in 1991<\/p>\n

Greene didn’t begin acting until his mid 20s, and landed several film and television roles in the early 1990s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After a suicide attempt in March 1996, he sought treatment for his addictions, according to the profile.<\/p>\n

In 2007, Greene was arrested for possessing crack cocaine according to the New York Daily News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

With close to 95 acting credits, Greene’s roles also included Laws of Gravity (1992), Clean, Shaven (1993), Blue Streak (1999), and Training Day (2001).<\/p>\n

Greene is survived by a sister and a brother.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Notably, Tarantino’s other famous collaborator Michael Madsen \u2014 who starred in Reservoir Dogs (1992) \u2014 died in July, at the age of 67, due to heart failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Greene – known for his roles in Quentin Tarantino‘s Pulp Fiction and The Mask – has died…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[818,9,56,63,65,64,36098,2816],"class_list":["post-69988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-dailymail","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-quentin-tarantino","tag-tvshowbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69988","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=69988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}