Showing posts with label Goodbye Peter Greene. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goodbye Peter Greene. Show all posts

Saturday, December 13, 2025

GOODBYE, PETER GREENE

You sure knew how to play the heavies, and Zed from Pulp Fiction is a big-time case in point. Heck, your character gave Bruce Willis the incentive to utter one of cinema's most noted lines: "Zed's Dead, baby. Zed's dead."

Your presence (your familiar, vehement face) also made the rounds in other pulpy entries, both on the big and small screen, such as The Mask; H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (Asylum 2005); Earthling; Under Siege 2: Dark Territory; Judgement Night; Bang; Training Day; The Usual Suspects; Laws of Gravity; Life on Mars (American edition); Kiss & Tell; Permanent Midnight; The Rich Man's Wife; Beggarman; Blue Knight; Blue Streak; Clean, Shaven; A Porn Star is Born; The Shoemaker; The Kill Hole; The Child; Checkmate, Keep Your Enemies Closer; Turnabout; Sweet Lorraine; Little DixieSamir; Tesla; Body Brokers; Priceless; Let's Get Lost; City of Lies; Exit 0; Return to Danger; Double Tap; Low Ball; Black Cloud; Shadow Hours; Ticker; Fist of the Warrior (Lesser of Three Evils); Once Fallen; Once More; Caller ID: Entity; Love Hollywood Style; Nobody's Baby; Out in Fifty; Ticker; Clown; I'm Calling Frank; Dead & Deader; Brothers in Arms; Final Engagement; Coyote Run; End Game; The Mick and the Trick; Pet Shop Days; Out of Exile; The Gentleman Bandit (Gentleman B); Do Me a Favor; Snakeland; The Black Donnellys; Scenes of the Crime; The Continental; Clika; Hardball; Hawaii 5-0 (2012); The Jersey Connection; Justified; The Bounty Hunter; Law and Order; Chicago P.D.; For Life; Still the King; and New York New York.

It takes a special sort to pull off the types of roles you handled. That edge--that tough, wily smartness--is a quality that few possess, and you, sir, possessed it in spades. Thanks for darkening the dark, Mr. Greene, and doing it with a glow that was all your own.