Montclair native, and cool, cold, villain in 'The Mask,' dies at 60

Montclair native and character actor Peter Greene, probably best known as the cold-eyed, pale and sophisticated villian pointing a gun on stage at Jim Carrey's green-faced clowning theatrics in the box-office hit "The Mask," is dead. He was 60 years old.

Greene was found dead Dec 12 in his lower-east side apartment in Manhattan, his manager, Gregg Edwards, confirmed the news in a statement to USA TODAY on Dec. 13. Greene won a wide following as the villain in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction," and for his roles in "The Usual Suspects” and “Training Day,” among other films.

He portrayed a man suffering from schizophrenia in "Clean, Shaven," (1994), to critical acclaim. He acted in The Jersey Connection, a digital web series set in New Jersey that online reviewers praised for its grittin