{"id":595638,"date":"2026-04-20T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/595638\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:04:08","slug":"patrick-muldoon-star-of-melrose-place-starship-troopers-dead-at-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/595638\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Muldoon, Star of ‘Melrose Place,’ ‘Starship Troopers,’ Dead at 57"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAmerican actor Patrick Muldoon, best known for starring in TV shows Days of Our Lives and Melrose Place and in films like Starship Troopers, died at 57. Deadline reported<\/a> that the actor died on Sunday, April 19, following a heart attack, and the actor\u2019s manager confirmed the death to Variety<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tMuldoon was born in San Pedro, California, on Sept. 27, 1968. After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1991, he was cast in Saved by the Bell<\/a> for a three-episode arc, where his character was infamously the catalyst for Zack and Kelly\u2019s breakup. He went on to join popular soap opera Days of Our Lives as Austin Reed, a role he embodied from 1992 to 1995 and again from September 2011 to July 2012. He also played recurring character Richard Hart on Melrose Place for three seasons in the mid-\u201990s.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1997, Muldoon starred in Paul Verhoeven\u2019s beloved sci-film Starship Troopers alongside Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, and Neil Patrick Harris. He continued working throughout the \u201990s and \u201900s, appearing in films like Born to Ride, Spiders 3D and Saving Christmas. He also had a fruitful career in dramatic made-for-TV movies like Deadly Revenge and His Secret Past.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMuldoon once said he wasn\u2019t focused on a particular thing in a role or project, but instead looked at what he could gain from the experience.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI tend to look at things backwards,\u201d he said in 2012<\/a>. \u201cWhen you get a part there is something going on within that character. There is a question that the character is living at that time. There is probably something you need to look at from your own personal life. As things come to you I kind of look at it on a spiritual tip a little bit. Whatever obstacle that character has to face somehow I am being asked to look at that in my own life. In order to be able to play the part you have to look at it from your own life. That is generally what I pay attention to when a part comes across the desk.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMuldoon executive produced numerous projects, including The Tribes of Palos Verdes, Arkansas, Marlowe, The Card Counter, The Dreadful, and Riff Raff. Most recently, he produced\u00a0Kockroach,\u00a0which stars Chris Hemsworth, Taron Egerton, and Zazie Beetz, and is currently filming.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAlongside acting, Muldoon was the lead singer of the Sleeping Masses, a band he formed with Neil Ives. The group\u2019s 2009 track \u201cThe Woman Is the Way\u201d appeared in film Powder Blue and MTV show The Hills. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMuldoon\u2019s latest film, crime thriller\u00a0Dirty Hands<\/a>,\u00a0which co-stars Denise Richards and Michael Beach, is slated to be released on April 24. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American actor Patrick Muldoon, best known for starring in TV shows Days of Our Lives and Melrose Place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,13441,203017],"class_list":["post-595638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-obituary","tag-saved-by-the-bell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}