Peter Greene obit

Peter Greene Dies: ‘Pulp Fiction’ & ‘The Mask’ Actor Was 60

 

He was not on the list.

Peter Greene, a character actor known for playing bad guys in such movies as Pulp Fiction and The Mask, has passed away at the age of 60. He was found dead Friday, Dec. 12, in his Manhattan apartment, Greene’s manager Gregg Edwards confirmed to Deadline. The cause of death is unknown at this time.

Born on Oct. 8, 1965 in Montclair, New Jersey, Greene made his screen acting debut in an episode of the short-lived 1990 NBC crime drama series Hardball and his feature debut in the 1992 film Laws of Gravity, in which he starred opposite Edie Falco.

It was a fast rise from there. In 1993, Greene headlined the film Clean, Shaven, which screened at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. In 1994, he was in two big movies. He played a villain, Zed, in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, which won the Palme d’Or at that year’s Cannes Film Festival, and the main antagonist, Dorian Tyrell, opposite Jim Carrey in The Mask.

Greene has continued to work steadily since. He starred in such films as Kiss & Tell, Blue Streak, End Game and The Bounty Hunter and had memorable turns in The Usual Suspects and Training Day. On TV, he was a series regular on the NBC drama series The Black Donnellys and recurred on ABC’s Life on Mars and NBC’s Chicago P.D. He most recently appeared in an episode of the John Wick prequel series The Continental.

“He was one of the best character actors on the planet,” Edwards said, revealing that Greene had two projects coming up, Mascots with Mickey Rourke and a documentary he was narrating titled From the American People: The Withdrawal of USAID with Jason Alexander and Kathleen Turner.

“He was passionate about shedding light on all the deaths that have happened around the world as a result of America dismantling USAID,” Edwards said. “He was a good friend who would give you the shirt off his back. He was loved and will be missed.”

Greene is survived by a brother and a sister who has been notified of his death, Edwards said.

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