United Kingdom, April 20 -- Patrick Muldoon has died after suffering a heart attack.

The former star of US soaps Days of Our Lives and Melrose Place passed away "suddenly" on Sunday morning (19.04.26) at the age of 57, according to Deadline.com, with the publication reporting the actor suffered a heart attack.

The sad news comes just two days after Muldoon took to Instagram to tell fans he had landed a role producing new movie Kockroach starring Chris Hemsworth, Channing Tatum and Taron Egerton and the movie would be filming in Australia. He wrote: "So excited to be a part of this amazing project KOCKROACH directed by Matt Ross starring Chris Hemsworth, Taron Edgerton, Zazzie Beetz And Alec Baldwin.

"Filming now in Australia @chrishems...