“Pulp Fiction” character actor Peter Green, who died on Dec. 12 at the age of 60, suffered a fatal gunshot wound, it was revealed Wednesday.
He died from a “gunshot wound to the left axilla with injury to the brachial artery,” according to the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (via People). The bullet entered his left armpit, damaging an artery supplying blood to his arm, elbow, forearm and hand, causing heavy bleeding. Green’s death was ruled an accident.
Greene was found dead in her apartment on New York’s Lower East Side on December 12, 2025. A neighbor who heard music playing nonstop in Green’s apartment for several days reportedly called her landlord and police to conduct a welfare check.
In Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, Green played Zed, a security guard who rapes crime boss Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Three of the characters, Green’s Zed, Duane Whitaker’s Maynard, and Stephen Hibbert’s Gimp, were “psycho hillbillies” that paid homage to the 1972 film Deliverance.
Also in 1994, Green played the villain Dorian Tyrell opposite Jim Carrey in The Mask. He is a mafia who plans to overthrow his boss by donning the powerful Loki mast, which makes his physique muscular and his voice deep and demonic.
Green has appeared in approximately 100 films and television shows, including “For Life,” “Chicago PD,” “Hawaii Five-O,” “Justified,” “Life on Mars,” “The Black Donnellys,” “Tesla,” “City of Lies,” “Once Fallen,” and “Permanent Midnight.” The upcoming drama “Clika” is expected to include Green’s last appearance.
