Peter Greene, the actor identified for enjoying villains and criminals, together with in his function as Zed in “Pulp Fiction,” died at his New York Metropolis residence Friday, his supervisor confirmed. He was 60.
Greene was discovered useless inside his Decrease East Aspect house, supervisor Gregg Edwards confirmed. He didn’t disclose a explanation for dying.
Greene’s dying was first reported by the New York Each day Information.
He performed the character Zed, a sadistic rapist safety guard within the 1994 Quentin Tarantino movie “Pulp Fiction,” and he additionally was identified for the function of villain Dorian within the Jim Carrey film “The Masks,” additionally in 1994.
“No person performed a foul man higher than Peter,” Edwards mentioned in a telephone interview. “However he additionally had, you already know, a delicate facet that most individuals by no means noticed, and a coronary heart as large as gold.”
Edwards mentioned he was advised that there had been music taking part in within the house for over 24 hours, and that prompted a wellness examine. Edwards mentioned he spoke with Greene earlier this week.
Along with his supporting roles, Greene starred within the 1993 movie “Clear, Shaven” through which he performed a person with schizophrenia who’s suspected in a homicide and who at occasions self-mutilates.
The New York Occasions evaluate mentioned Greene’s efficiency turned the function he performed “right into a compellingly anguished, unstable character, somebody who didn’t even need to slice himself as much as get an viewers’s consideration.”
As a personality actor, Greene additionally had roles in “The Regular Suspects” and “Coaching Day,” amongst others.
Greene performed the memorable function because the fence Redfoot in “The Regular Suspects,” who informs the crime crew of a chance to rob a jeweler who finally ends up killed throughout the subsequent heist.
In “Coaching Day,” Greene performed Jeff, a detective who’s shot by Alonzo Harris — famously portrayed by Denzel Washington — because the corrupt group tries to concoct a narrative to cowl up a cold-blooded homicide of a former narcotics officer.
After Harris kills the previous narcotics officer in his residence, Greene because the detective agrees to be shot in his bullet-resistant vest to make it seem as if the police had been fired upon first.
“Kiss me, child,” Greene says in a memorable line earlier than Washington’s Harris shoots him twice.
Greene was born in Montclair, New Jersey, on Oct. 8, 1965. He started performing in his 20s whereas dwelling in New York Metropolis, in keeping with his biography on the web site IMDB.
Edwards mentioned that Greene is survived by a sister and a brother.
