{"id":476720,"date":"2026-02-18T23:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476720\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T23:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:35:07","slug":"pulp-fiction-actor-peter-greene-died-of-accidental-self-inflicted-gunshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476720\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Pulp Fiction’ Actor Peter Greene Died Of Accidental Self-Inflicted Gunshot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPulp Fiction<\/a> actor Peter Greene<\/a>, who was found lifeless in his Manhattan apartment <\/a>on December 12, died after accidentally shooting himself in the left armpit, The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in New York City has determined.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Medical Examiner\u2019s office confirmed to Deadline that Greene\u2019s cause of death<\/a> was a gunshot wound \u201cof left axilla with injury of brachial artery.\u201d The wound caused extensive bleeding; the manner of death was determined by the ME as accidental.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 66-year-old Greene was discovered in his Lower East Side apartment after a neighbor phoned the landlord and the police to conduct wellness checks. Neighbors have reported hearing Christmas music coming from Greene\u2019s apartment non-stop for several days.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor, born in Montclair, New Jersey, was candid about his past struggles with addiction, although he reportedly had been sober for at least a couple years at the time of his passing.<\/p>\n

\n\tGreene made his screen acting debut in an episode of the 1990 NBC crime drama series Hardball and his feature debut in the 1992 film Laws of Gravity. His most prominent roles among many credits were as the villain Zed in Quentin Tarantino\u2019s Pulp Fiction and as antagonist Dorian Tyrell opposite Jim Carrey in The Mask<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn TV, he was a series regular on the NBC drama series The Black Donnellys and recurred on ABC\u2019s Life on Mars and NBC\u2019s Chicago P.D. He most recently appeared in an episode of the John Wick prequel series The Continental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pulp Fiction actor Peter Greene, who was found lifeless in his Manhattan apartment on December 12, died after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[15526,88,172932,22514,172933],"class_list":["post-476720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cause-of-death","tag-entertainment","tag-peter-greene","tag-pulp-fiction","tag-the-mask"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}