{"id":351586,"date":"2026-04-20T13:11:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/days-of-our-lives-star-patrick-muldoon-posted-excitedly-about-a-new-film-friday-he-was-dead-by-sunday"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:11:10","slug":"days-of-our-lives-star-patrick-muldoon-posted-excitedly-about-a-new-film-friday-he-was-dead-by-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/days-of-our-lives-star-patrick-muldoon-posted-excitedly-about-a-new-film-friday-he-was-dead-by-sunday","title":{"rendered":"Days Of Our Lives Star Patrick Muldoon Posted Excitedly About A New Movie Friday. He Was Useless By Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The last thing Patrick Muldoon<\/strong><\/a> did in public was celebrate.<\/p>\n

On Friday, he posted on Instagram about a film called \u201cKockroach.\u201d He was executive producing. Chris Hemsworth was starring. Taron Egerton, Zazie Beetz and Alec Baldwin had signed on. Cameras had just started rolling in Australia. After thirty-five years in the business \u2014 as a model, a soap star, a prime-time villain, a cult sci-fi lead, and finally, quietly, an executive producer \u2014 this was the biggest thing he had ever put his name on.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo excited to be a part of this amazing project,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Two days later, on Sunday morning, he was dead in his bathroom. He was 57.<\/p>\n

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A Sunday Like Any Other<\/h2>\n

He had coffee with his partner, Miriam Rothbart, at their home in Beverly Hills. Then he went to take a shower. When he hadn\u2019t come out after a while, Rothbart went to check on him. She found him collapsed in the bathroom, not breathing.<\/p>\n

Paramedics could not revive him. It had been a sudden heart attack. His manager confirmed the death to Variety that night, and his sister, Shana Muldoon-Zappa, described the morning to TMZ the next day.<\/p>\n

The Career Before The Career<\/h2>\n

Most of the tributes that went up over the weekend led with Austin Reed, the aspiring boxer Muldoon played on \u201cDays of Our Lives<\/strong><\/a>\u201d from 1992 to 1995, and Richard Hart, the Melrose Place husband-turned-predator who was finally killed in a Season 5 police shootout. Older viewers remembered him as Kelly Kapowski\u2019s boyfriend on \u201cSaved by the Bell,\u201d or as Zander Barcalow in Paul Verhoeven\u2019s 1997 cult film \u201cStarship Troopers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those were the roles that made him famous. They were not the work he was proudest of at the end.<\/p>\n

What He Was Actually Building<\/h2>\n

Somewhere along the way, without any particular announcement, Muldoon stopped chasing leading-man parts and became an executive producer.<\/p>\n

He started a company called Storyboard Productions. His name began appearing in the credits of films a lot more serious than the ones that had made him famous. Paul Schrader\u2019s \u201cThe Card Counter.\u201d Neil Jordan\u2019s \u201cMarlowe,\u201d starring Liam Neeson. The indie crime drama \u201cArkansas.\u201d Last year he executive produced \u201cRiff Raff,\u201d which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival with a cast that included Jennifer Coolidge, Bill Murray and Pete Davidson.<\/p>\n

It was a different kind of career than the one he\u2019d started with. Quieter. More respected. The kind of work that takes twenty years to build and tends to arrive right when an actor stops being the youngest face in the room.<\/p>\n

He was still acting, too. \u201cDirty Hands,\u201d a crime thriller with his ex-girlfriend Denise Richards, was scheduled to come out later this year. And then there was \u201cKockroach\u201d \u2014 the biggest name on his slate, still shooting in Australia when he died. His \u201cStarship Troopers\u201d co-star Casper Van Dien had dropped by the Friday Instagram post to congratulate him. By Sunday afternoon, that comment thread had turned into a memorial.<\/p>\n

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The people who loved him called him Bobo. On his own Instagram bio, he described himself in seven words: actor, producer, musician, in the most rock and roll way possible.<\/p>\n

He sang and played guitar in a band he had co-founded with Neil Graham Ives, called The Sleeping Masses. Their 2009 track \u201cThe Woman Is The Way\u201d ended up on an episode of MTV\u2019s \u201cThe Hills.\u201d The people who knew him treated his music the way he did \u2014 as a serious second life, not a hobby he picked up between auditions.<\/p>\n

In tributes to Deadline, they remembered his humor, his poetry, his hugs, the way he made people feel seen. His \u201cDays of Our Lives\u201d co-star Alison Sweeney wrote on X that he was \u201cbrilliantly talented, endlessly kind, and generous in spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n

He is survived by Rothbart; his parents, Deanna and Patrick Muldoon Sr.; his sister, Shana, and her husband, Ahmet Zappa, the son of Frank Zappa; and their children, Halo and Arrow.<\/p>\n

One of those friends, describing him to Deadline, said he had embraced each day \u201cwith a full-tilt, rock \u2018n\u2019 roll spirit.\u201d That was exactly what he had always said he was.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n