Mr. Hendrickson attended the Juilliard School. In his 2003 Emmy acceptance speech, he thanked his mother, who "scrimped and saved" to send him to the famous acting school so he could play the classics. His tone was ironic, of course, as his best known work was the TV soap, where his cop character married a famously salty fashion designer, Barbara Ryan, despite his attraction to his detective partner, Margo Hughes.