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Eric Braeden

Born 1941-04-03
📍 Bredenbek, Germany

Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast; April 3, 1941) is a German-born film and television actor. The internationally-acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning and People’s Choice Award-winning film and television actor ERIC BRAEDEN is a television icon and arguably the most popular character in daytime history. For over 37 plus years, he has portrayed “Victor Newman” on the #1 rated daytime drama series The Young and the Restless, which has over 120,000,000 daily viewers around the world. The show is syndicated in over 30 foreign countries including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, the Middle East, New Zealand, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland and Turkey.

Braeden recently wrote his critically acclaimed autobiography I’ll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America’s #1 Daytime Drama from HarperCollins, which appeared on the Publishers Weekly and Canadian bestseller list. Additionally, according to A.C. Nielsen, Braeden has one of the highest TVQ’s on television, and is one of the most recognized actors in the world. On July 20 2007, he was the recipient of a star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame and become the first German born actor since Marlene Dietrich to receive such an honor.

Filmography 89

Den of Thieves
as Ziggy Zerhusen
2018
And the Winner Isn't
as Self
2017
The Man Who Came Back
as Reese Paxton
2008
3055 Jean Leon
as Self
2007
How I Met Your Mother
as Robin Scherbatsky Sr.
2005
Hope & Faith
as Lance Taylor
2003
WWE Unforgiven 2002
as Self
2002
The Titanic Chronicles
as (voice)
1999
Meet the Deedles
as Elton Deedle
1998
Titanic
as John Jacob Astor
1997
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
as David Morrison
1993
The Nanny
as Frank Bradley
1993
Diagnosis: Murder
as Eric Braeden
1993
Lucky Chances
as Dimitri Stanislopolous
1990
The Ambulance
as The Doctor
1990
Murder, She Wrote
as Col. Gerhardt Brunner
1984
The Aliens Are Coming
as Leonard Nero
1980
The Power Within
as Stephens
1979
Vega$
as Arthur Rollins
1978
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978
Piranha
as Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)
1978
CHiPs
1977
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
as Bruno Von Stickle
1977
Code Name: Diamond Head
as Ernest Graeber
1977
How the West Was Won
as Francis Britten
1977
Charlie's Angels
as John Reardon
1976
Wonder Woman
as Donalsen
1975
Wonder Woman
as Captain Drangel
1975
Death Scream
as Kosinsky
1975
Matt Helm
as Forbes
1975
Switch
as Mike Jenkins
1975
Switch
as Franz Hausner
1975
Barbary Coast
as Bristol
1975
Bronk
1975
The Ultimate Thrill
as Roland Parlay
1974
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
as Bernhardt Stieglitz
1974
The Daytime Emmy Awards
1974
The Six Million Dollar Man
as Victor Cheraskin
1974
Death Race
as Stoeffer
1973
Kojak
as Kenneth Krug
1973
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
as Arlen Findletter
1973
The Magician
as Nelson Paradine
1973
Lady Ice
as Peter Brinker
1973
Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John
as Col. Gunter Kroll
1973
The Young and the Restless
as Victor Newman
1973
Intertect
as Emhardt
1973
Barnaby Jones
as Steven Kingston
1973
The Adulteress
as Hank Baron
1973
The Judge and Jake Wyler
as Anton Granicek
1972
Banacek
as Paul Bolitho
1972
The Rookies
1972
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
as Mike Benson
1971
Cannon
1971
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
as Dr. Otto Hasslein
1971
The Young Rebels
1970
Colossus: The Forbin Project
as Dr Charles Forbin
1970
The Mask of Sheba
as Dr. Roan Morgan
1970
McCloud
as Ravik
1970
Honeymoon with a Stranger
as Frederico Caprio
1969
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Pastor Goodleigh
1969
100 Rifles
as Lt. Franz Von Klemme
1969
Hawaii Five-O
as Dr. Paul Farrar
1968
Hawaii Five-O
as Klaus Marburg
1968
Hawaii Five-O
as Djebara
1968
Mannix
1967
Garrison's Gorillas
1967
Mission: Impossible
as Col. Markus von Frank
1966
Mission: Impossible
as Andrei Fetyakov
1966
Jericho
1966
The Rat Patrol
as Capt. Hans Dietrich
1966
The F.B.I.
as Nicholas Blok
1965
The F.B.I.
as Becker
1965
Run for Your Life
as Eric Horst
1965
Run for Your Life
as Janos Takacs
1965
Morituri
as Radio Officer (uncredited)
1965
12 O'Clock High
as Maj. Gerhard Bentz
1964
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Gerd Hoffman
1963
The Gallant Men
1962
Combat!
as Drunken German soldier (uncredited)
1962
Combat!
as Hans Gruber
1962
Combat!
as Ecktmann
1962
Combat!
as German Vehicle Commander
1962
The Virginian
as Augustin
1962
Operation Eichmann
as Klaus
1961
77 Sunset Strip
as German Soldier (uncredited)
1958
Gunsmoke
as Carl Jaekel
1955
Gunsmoke
as Jack Sinclair
1955
Gunsmoke
as William E. Talley
1955