Patrick Muldoon, who played Austin Reed on Days of Our Lives and Richard Hurt on Melrose Place, reportedly suffered a heart attack, according to his death certificate.
Actor Patrick Muldoon dies at age 57
Patrick Muldoon, known for his roles in “Days of Our Lives,” “Melrose Place,” and “Starship Troopers,” has died at the age of 57.
The cause of death of Patrick Muldoon (57), known for starring in “Days of Our Lives” and “Melrose Place,” has been announced.
Muldoon’s immediate cause of death was a myocardial infarction, or heart attack, according to a death certificate obtained by Us Weekly and People. He died on April 19th and was cremated on April 28th.
The underlying causes that contributed to his death include an inherited clotting disorder characterized by a slowed blood clotting process and a pulmonary embolism caused by a “blood clot that breaks off and travels through the bloodstream to the lungs,” according to the National Library of Medicine’s Medline Plus.
Muldoon played Austin Reed on “Days of Our Lives” and Richard Hart on “Beverly Hills, 90210” soap spinoff “Melrose Place.”
The Los Angeles native, who received two Rose Bowl rings while playing football at the University of Southern California, began his career as a model for Wilhelmina, where he ended up appearing in a Calvin Klein ad. By the mid-’80s, he began a long acting career with an appearance on “Who’s the Boss?” He then starred in Saved by the Bell as Jeffrey Hunter, the Max’s manager who briefly dated Tiffani Thiessen’s Kelly Kapowski.
By 1992, Muldoon was starring on Days of Our Lives as one of two actors playing Austin Reed, an ambitious boxer with a troubled past and the love interest of Carrie Brady (Christy Clark). Austin Peck continued to play the role of Austin Reed from 1995 to 2021, with the exception of Muldoon reprising the role in 2011 and 2012.
Muldoon was set to co-produce Cockroach, a new crime thriller starring Chris Hemsworth, Zazie Beetz, Channing Tatum and Alec Baldwin.
He is also set to appear in several films posthumously, including Denise Richards’ crime thriller Dirty Hands.
