NEW YORK — Actor Peter Greene accidentally shot himself in his New York City apartment last December, resulting in his death, according to a medical examiner.
The city’s medical examiner found Greene’s cause of death was a gunshot wound to the left armpit, damaging the brachial artery that supplies blood to the arm.
They ruled the death an accident.
Greene, a character actor best known for his role as the iconic villain Zed in “Pulp Fiction,” died last December at the age of 60.
Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Greene landed some of his first leading roles in “Laws of Gravity” in 1992 and “Clean, Shaven” in 1993, according to IMDb.
In 1994, he played the memorable villain in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction,” who is brought in to torture characters played by Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames. That same year, he played another leading villain opposite Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz in “The Mask.”
Greene was working on two projects when he died, including a documentary about the federal government’s withdrawal of funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to Edwards.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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