Peter Greene obituary

Actor who gave memorable, sometimes unnerving, performances in films such as Pulp Fiction, The Mask and The Usual Suspects

“A giant exposed nerve ending” is how Entertainment Weekly described the actor Peter Greene in 1995. Greene, who has died suddenly aged 60, brought his unnerving intensity to a handful of high-profile films in the 1990s, including Quentin Tarantino’s brash comic thriller Pulp Fiction (1994).

Greene appears in the small but memorable role of a depraved security guard named Zed, who uses the eeny-meeny-miny-moe method to determine which of the two trussed-up captives in a pawn-shop basement – a gangster (Ving Rhames) or a boxer (Bruce Willis) – he should rape first.