This sturdy, handsome blond performer first gained wide recognition as the manipulative, often sleazy egomaniacal divorce attorney Arnie Becker in the popular NBC TV series "L.A. Law" (1986-93). The son of soap actress Jeanne Cooper (who has reigned as Kay Chancellor on "The Young and the Restless" since 1973), he flirted with law or playwriting as a career while at UCLA, but his producer father, Harry Bernsen offered him a small role in the 1974 feature film "Three the Hard Way." He also had small roles in "King Kong" (1976) and "Eat My Dust" (1976). Working as a model, he also often appeared
