The cause of Greene’s death was not immediately released.
American actor Peter Greene, best known for his negative roles in Pulp Fiction and The Mask, has died at the age of 60. The actor died at his home in New York, his manager Gregg Edwards confirmed on Friday. The cause of Greene’s death was not immediately disclosed, TASR reports, according to a report from the AP news agency.
“He was a great person. Probably one of the greatest character actors in the world. Nobody played a villain better than Peter, but he also had a soft side that most people never got to know,” said Edwards.
Greene was born on October 8, 1965 in the American state of New Jersey. He got his first leading roles in the crime film Laws of Attraction (1992) and the drama Clean, Shaven (1993). He is best known to the audience as the sadistic biker Zed in the film Pulp Fiction (1994) directed by Quentin Tarantino and as the mobster Dorian in the fantasy comedy Mask (1994).
Works such as Usual Suspects (1995), Blue Lightning (1999), Training Day (2001) and Professional (2001) followed. He also acted in several TV series – Hotel Continental or Lawyer for life. At the time of his death, Greene was working on two projects, including a paper on withdrawing federal government funding for the US Agency for International Development.
