Pulp Fiction actor Peter Green found dead in New York apartment | film

Actor Peter Green, known for his roles in Pulp Fiction and The Mask, has died at the age of 60.

His manager said that he was found dead in his apartment in New York City on Friday, and the cause of death was not revealed.

Police told the New York Post that no foul play was suspected.

Green has received praise for many of the villains he has played during his career including his portrayal of Zed, a rapist security guard in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film Pulp Fiction, and Dorian in Jim Carrey’s The Mask that same year.

“No one played the bad guy better than Peter,” his manager Greg Edwards told NBC News. “But he also had a soft side that most people never saw, and a heart as big as gold.”

Edwards added: “He was a wonderful man. Truly one of the great actors of our generation. He had a big heart as it was. I will miss him. He was a great friend.”

Green won the Best Actor Award at the 1994 Taormina Film Festival for his role in Lodge Kerrigan’s Clean, Shaven, in which he played a man with schizophrenia.

He later parlayed his success into roles in several films including The Usual Suspects, Under Siege 2 and Training Day alongside Denzel Washington.

Greene’s other credits include the action film Judgment Night, the Halle Berry thriller The Rich Man’s Wife, Blue Streak, and the Jennifer Aniston action comedy The Bounty Hunter.

The actor, who was born in Montclair, New Jersey, leaves behind a sister and a brother.

In a rare 2011 interview, Green admitted that he initially turned down the role in Pulp Fiction because of its content.

“When I got the script, I was very disappointed,” he told The Sissy Gamache Show.

“The way it was written wasn’t for me. If you saw Redemption, you’d never see the guy who took Ned Beatty and made him ‘squeal like a pig’ again, so I didn’t think it was a great career move.”

However, Tarantino continued to pursue him for the role and eventually allowed Greene to change the scene to his preferences.