Actor Peter Greene, recognized for his roles in “The Mask” and “Pulp Fiction,” has died, a number of retailers have confirmed. He was 60.
Greene was discovered unresponsive inside his house in New York Metropolis’s Decrease East Facet neighborhood and later pronounced lifeless on the scene on Friday afternoon, per his supervisor Gregg Edwards.
The New York Every day Information was first to report his loss of life. Police don’t suspect foul play and his explanation for loss of life is to be decided, per the New York Publish.
Greene was recognized for enjoying mobster Dorian Tyrell, the principle antagonist within the Jim Carrey-starring 1994 superhero slapstick “The Mask,” and took the a part of Zed, a safety guard who rapes mob boss Marsellus Wallace, in Quentin Tarantino’s crime traditional “Pulp Fiction.”
A personality actor hailing from Montclair, New Jersey, Greene performed villains in different movies comparable to “Judgment Night,” “The Bounty Hunter” and “Training Day.”
The actor — who starred within the 1993 drama “Clean, Shaven” and appeared in “The Usual Suspects” — was additionally picked for a component within the upcoming Mickey Rourke-led impartial thriller “Mascots,” in response to Edwards.
His supervisor informed the Every day Information that Greene was a “unique individual” who “cared about people.”
“One of the most brilliant character actors on the planet,” Edwards mentioned.
Greene was set to have surgical procedure to take away a benign tumor close to his lungs however was in any other case in fine condition and rode his bike “everywhere” across the Huge Apple, Edwards mentioned.
The actor had a historical past of dependancy to medication. A 1996 profile in Premier journal famous that he ran away from residence as a youngster and lived on the New York Metropolis streets, in response to TV Insider. He hid in theaters from drug sellers who tried to kill him and finally discovered his strategy to appearing.
In early 1996, Greene tried to kill himself earlier than in search of dependancy therapy quickly after.
“He fought his demons but overcame them,” Edwards informed the New York Publish.
Edwards — who managed Greene for over a decade — informed the Every day Information that Greene’s loss of life got here as a “shock” to him and, regardless of the actor’s status as tough to work with, he was “really a good-hearted person.”
