Peter Greene , the character actor known for playing villainous roles in Pulp Fiction and The Mask , has died at the age of 60.

The actor was found dead inside his New York City apartment Friday following a wellness check, his manager Gregg Edwards told NBC News . No cause of death was provided.

“Nobody played a bad guy better than Peter,” Edwards told NBC News. “But he also had, you know, a gentle side that most people never saw, and a heart as big as gold.”

The New Jersey-born Greene specialized in playing criminals, mobsters, and corrupt cops, as best exemplified by a trio of roles he landed in the mid-Nineties. He was perhaps best known for playing a sadistic, rapist security guard Zed in 1994’s Pulp Fiction , whose death by “medieval” means led Bruce Willis to deliver th

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