{"id":4232,"date":"2026-04-20T14:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetwistzone.com\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:08:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:08:47","slug":"days-of-our-lives-and-melrose-place-actor-dies-at-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetwistzone.com\/?p=4232","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Days of Our Lives\u2019 and \u2018Melrose Place\u2019 actor dies at 57"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Muldoon\u2019s death cuts brutally across the easy nostalgia of those who grew up watching him. To millions, he was Austin Reed on Days of Our Lives, the charming good guy you rooted for; to others, the slick rival pilot in Starship Troopers, forever locked in a cult-classic universe. Yet behind the roles was a working actor who never really stopped, moving from soaps to prime-time drama, from sci\u2011fi to indie thrillers, building a steady, unflashy career.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>His final morning \u2013 coffee with his partner, a shower, then silence \u2013 feels unbearably ordinary for something so devastating. The projects he was nurturing as a producer, the film still waiting to be released, all testify to a man mid\u2011stride, not winding down. Those who loved him now hold a life abruptly cut short, and a body of work that, suddenly, has to stand in for every scene he\u2019ll never get to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Muldoon\u2019s death cuts brutally across the easy nostalgia of those who grew up watching him. 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