ALBAWABA - Peter Greene, the actor who played bad guys in Pulp Fiction and The Mask, has died at 60.
NBC News was told by the actor's manager, Gregg Edwards, that the actor was found dead in his New York City flat on Friday after a wellness check. They did not say how the person died.
Edwards told NBC News, "Peter was better than anyone else at playing a bad guy." "But he also had a soft side that he showed to only a few people, and he was very kind."
Greene, who was born in New Jersey, was good at playing criminals, mobsters, and dirty cops. He played these types of characters in three parts he got in the mid-nineties. He was probably most famous for playing Zed in the 1994 movie Pulp Fiction, an evil, cruel, rapist security guard whose death in a "medieval" way led Bruce Willis to say the often-repeated quote, "Zed's dead, baby."
After that famous part, Greene played the lead mobster Dorian Tyrell in The Mask, a comedy-action movie starring Jim Carrey. He then played "the fence," Redfoot, in 1995's The Usual Suspects.
The actor's first big role was playing a guy with schizophrenia in the 1993 independent film Clean, Shaven, which was well received by critics. In the 1990s, Greene was in movies such as Judgment Night, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, and Blue Streak. In the last twenty years, he has also played a drug cop who is not honest in the 2001 movie Training Day and been on episodes of Hawaii Five-O, Justified, Chicago PD, and the John Wick spinoff series The Continental.
Edwards, his manager, told Deadline, "He was one of the best character actors on the planet." He was the kind of friend who would do anything for you. He was loved and will not be forgotten.
