Home Alone star John Heard's cause of death revealed to be heart attack...weeks after beloved actor dies at age 71
Home Alone star John Heard passed away at the age of 71 from a heart attack brought on by heart disease.
Citing officials, TMZ reported on Tuesday that an autopsy conducted by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner's Office concluded Heard died from a 'sudden cardiac death due to atheroscerotic and hypertensive heart disease.'
Heard died on Friday, July 22, and his representative told TMZ at the time that the actor had minor back surgery two days prior and he was at the hotel to recover.
Officials have since told TMZ the back surgery 'did not play a role in his death.'
Cause of death: John Heard passed away at the age of 71 from a heart attack brought on by heart disease (pictured 2016)
A toxicology report has yet to be publicly released.
John was found dead in a hotel in Palo Alto, California on Friday, July 22.
The Washington DC native was reportedly discovered by the maid service and was pronounced dead on the scene.
A Palo Alto Police Department spokesman told People on July 22: 'I can confirm that our officers responded with the Fire Department to a hotel in our city yesterday on a report of a person in need of medical aid.
'The person was determined to be deceased. While still under investigation, the death is not considered suspicious at this time.'
John Heard is best known for playing the father in the Home Alone movies
Heard played Peter McCallister - Macaulay Culkin's character's father (pictured together) - in the Home Alone movies
Heard played Peter McCallister - Macaulay Culkin's character's father - in the Home Alone movies.
He also starred in Big with Tom Hanks, Gladiator, The Sopranos and Battlestar Galactica.
Heard had been married three times and is survived by three children.
In 1991 he was arrested and charged with third-degree assault for allegedly slapping his former partner Melissa Leo, according to Fox News. Then in 1997, he was found guilty of trespassing at her Baltimore home.
Heard also starred in Big with Tom Hanks, Gladiator, The Sopranos (pictured) and Battlestar Galactica
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