Peter Greene, an actor popular for his roles in cult classic films “Pulp Fiction” and “The Mask,” has died. He was 60.
The Montclair native was found dead by a neighbor in his New York City apartment Friday, according to the New York Daily News.
The neighbor, who requested to remain anonymous, said he found the actor in his Lower East Side Manhattan apartment after neighbors reported hearing Christmas music blasting from Greene’s apartment for several days, per the report.
“Peter was lying on the floor, facedown, facial injury, blood everywhere…,” the neighbor said.
A cause of death has yet to be determined.
“It’s a shock,” Gregg Edward, Greene’s manager, said. “He wasn’t that old. In pretty good shape for his age, rode his bike everywhere around New York. He’d had some health issues throughout the last couple years, had always fought through and was very strong.”
Greene was born and raised in Montclair. He ran away from home at the age of 15 and began acting in the early ‘90s. His first acting credit came in NBC’s buddy-cop drama “Hardball” in 1990.
Greene’s role as Peter Winter, a schizophrenic man who is suspected of a murder in “Clean, Shaven” (1993), thrusted him into stardom.
He followed up with appearances in “Pulp Fiction” and “The Mask” in 1994. Greene played Zed, a sadistic security guard, in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” and villain Dorian Tyrell in “The Mask.”
Some of Greene’s other notable roles came in films like “Training Day,” “The Usual Suspects,” and “The Bounty Hunter;” and shows like “The Black Donnellys” and “For Life.”
