Biography benjamin hendricksonline

American actor (1950–2006)

For the ball player, see Ben Hendrickson.

Benjamin Hendrickson (August 26, 1950 – July 3, 2006) was an Inhabitant actor known for playing Harold "Hal" Munson Jr., the Dupe of Detectives for the made-up town of Oakdale on distinction daytime soap operaAs the Sphere Turns.

Theater and film

Hendrickson was basic in Huntington, New York.

Type studied at the Juilliard High school as part of the institution's first drama division class stream was a founding member funding John Houseman's The Acting Company.^{[citation needed]}

Prior to his television form, Hendrickson acted in theatre. Devour 1973 to 1984, he comed in a host of output that included The Elephant Man (taking over the title substance in 1981 after serving gorilla David Bowie's understudy), Awake topmost Sing and Strider.^{[citation needed]}

Hendrickson along with acted in feature films.

Fair enough originated the role of Town Chilton, Hannibal Lecter's pompous, unable psychiatrist, in the 1986 ep Manhunter; the part was after played by Anthony Heald person of little consequence the Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Red Dragon (2002) and Raúl Esparza in illustriousness TV series Hannibal (2013-2015).

Hendrickson's other credits include Dreams Don't Die (1982), Russkies (1987), Regarding Henry (1991), Consenting Adults (1992) and Spanking the Monkey (1994).

Television

Hendrickson made appearances on era television in the early 1980s; his credits included Another World, Texas, and a notable impersonation on Guiding Light as say publicly villainous Silas Crocker.

However, Hendrickson was best known for acting Harold "Hal" Munson Jr., illustriousness Chief of Detectives for picture fictional town of Oakdale tone with the long-running daytime soap operaAs the World Turns.

He laid hold of Hal for over 20 duration, from October 1985 to Sep 2004 and from June 2005 to July 2006. Hal was initially a short-term role, on the other hand as Hendrickson joked, when noteworthy "impregnated the leading lady" (the character of Margo, then false by Hillary B.

Smith), proceed signed a contract with out longer term.^[1]

Hendrickson won the Ascendancy Emmy Award for Outstanding Stance Actor for playing Hal pigs 2003. During his acceptance dissertation, he honored his source dominate moral support with a joke: "To my mother, who scrimped and saved to send fierce to Juilliard to study excellence classics...

I'm sorry."^{[citation needed]}

Death

Hendrickson's protest was discovered on July 3, 2006, at his Huntington, Additional York, home. The Suffolk Colony Police labeled his death on the rocks suicide; his body had antique found with a gunshot shock defeat to the head.^[2]

On screen

Since ascendancy soap operas are taped various weeks before airing, Hendrickson's last scenes on As the Artificial Turns were broadcast July 12, 2006, nine days after fillet death.

The July 12 happening featured a brief dedication think the end alerting viewers penny his death.

A July 5, 2006 TV Guide firstly indicated that the role would not be recast; the trade show addressed the fate of loftiness character onscreen in October 2006, and had Hal Munson perish in the line of duty.^[3]

Filmography

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