Dead Celebrity Alert

HUNTINGTON, N.Y., July 7 (AP) — Benjamin Hendrickson, an Emmy Award-winning actor on the “As the World Turns” soap opera, committed suicide at his home on Long Island this week, police officials said. He was 55.

Suffolk County police officers, called by concerned neighbors, said they found him dead in bed on Monday; the cause was a gunshot to the head, they said.

Mr. Hendrickson was a member of the first graduating class of the Juilliard School of Drama, along with Kevin Kline and Patti LuPone. He appeared on Broadway in the early 1980’s in the title role of “The Elephant Man” and in the 1984 revival of “Awake and Sing!” … Read full obituary

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