Co star in Zen, Francesco Quinn, has died at age 48 of a heart attack

The Los Angeles Times has reported that Quinn died near his home in Malibu, California on Friday evening of a suspected heart attack.

Lt. James Royal of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Malibu/Lost Hills station told the 'Times' that Quinn collapsed on the street where he lived while walking home from a nearby store with one of his sons. He was pronounced dead at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center.

Born in Rome, Italy in 1963, Quinn was the son of the Mexican-Irish Oscar-winning actor Anthony Quinn ('Zorba the Greek') and his Italian wife Jolanda Addolori. His birthplace of Rome provided Quinn's most recent US TV role, the part of Gilberto Nieddu in PBS's police drama, 'Zen.' Gilberto is the best friend and confidant of the main character, Rome police detective Aurelio Zen (played by Rufus Sewell).