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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 3, 1941
Place of Birth
Bredenbek, Germany
Also Known As
- Hans-Jörg Gudegast
Eric Braeden
1.1 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
6.9
Ziggy Zerhusen
Den of Thieves
2018
5.7
Self
And the Winner Isn't
2017
4.4
Reese Paxton
The Man Who Came Back
2008
7.3
Self
3055 Jean Leon
2007
8.1
Robin Scherbatsky Sr.
How I Met Your Mother
2005
5.3
Lance Taylor
Hope & Faith
2003
6.4
Self
WWE Unforgiven 2002
2002
7.0
(voice)
The Titanic Chronicles
1999
4.5
Elton Deedle
Meet the Deedles
1998
7.9
John Jacob Astor
Titanic
1997
Credits
Den of Thieves
as Ziggy Zerhusen
2018
6.9
And the Winner Isn't
as Self
2017
5.7
The Man Who Came Back
as Reese Paxton
2008
4.4
3055 Jean Leon
as Self
2007
7.3
How I Met Your Mother
as Robin Scherbatsky Sr.
2005
8.1
Hope & Faith
as Lance Taylor
2003
5.3
WWE Unforgiven 2002
as Self
2002
6.4
The Titanic Chronicles
as (voice)
1999
7.0
Meet the Deedles
as Elton Deedle
1998
4.5
Titanic
as John Jacob Astor
1997
7.9
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
as David Morrison
1993
6.6
The Nanny
as Frank Bradley
1993
8.1
Diagnosis: Murder
as Eric Braeden
1993
7.1
Lucky Chances
as Dimitri Stanislopolous
1990
6.3
The Ambulance
as The Doctor
1990
5.8
Murder, She Wrote
as Col. Gerhardt Brunner
1984
7.5
The Aliens Are Coming
as Leonard Nero
1980
3.6
The Power Within
as Stephens
1979
0.0
Vega$
as Arthur Rollins
1978
7.0
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978
5.0
🎬
Happily Ever After
as Ross Ford
1978
0.0
Piranha
as Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)
1978
6.0
CHiPs
1977
6.8
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
as Bruno Von Stickle
1977
5.9
Code Name: Diamond Head
as Ernest Graeber
1977
3.0
How the West Was Won
as Francis Britten
1977
6.9
Charlie's Angels
as John Reardon
1976
6.7
Wonder Woman
as Donalsen
1975
7.0
Wonder Woman
as Captain Drangel
1975
7.0
Death Scream
as Kosinsky
1975
6.6
Matt Helm
as Forbes
1975
7.4
Switch
as Mike Jenkins
1975
6.7
Switch
as Franz Hausner
1975
6.7
Barbary Coast
as Bristol
1975
7.5
Bronk
1975
6.2
The Ultimate Thrill
as Roland Parlay
1974
4.5
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
as Bernhardt Stieglitz
1974
7.6
The Daytime Emmy Awards
1974
10.0
The Six Million Dollar Man
as Victor Cheraskin
1974
7.3
Death Race
as Stoeffer
1973
4.4
Kojak
as Kenneth Krug
1973
7.0
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
as Arlen Findletter
1973
6.5
The Magician
as Nelson Paradine
1973
6.7
Lady Ice
as Peter Brinker
1973
4.7
Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John
as Col. Gunter Kroll
1973
0.0
The Young and the Restless
as Victor Newman
1973
7.0
Intertect
as Emhardt
1973
0.0
Barnaby Jones
as Steven Kingston
1973
6.9
The Adulteress
as Hank Baron
1973
1.0
The Judge and Jake Wyler
as Anton Granicek
1972
3.0
Banacek
as Paul Bolitho
1972
8.6
The Rookies
1972
6.8
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
as Mike Benson
1971
6.3
Cannon
1971
6.6
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
as Dr. Otto Hasslein
1971
6.4
The Young Rebels
1970
4.5
Colossus: The Forbin Project
as Dr Charles Forbin
1970
6.9
The Mask of Sheba
as Dr. Roan Morgan
1970
0.0
McCloud
1970
7.1
Honeymoon with a Stranger
as Frederico Caprio
1969
6.7
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Pastor Goodleigh
1969
6.5
100 Rifles
as Lt. Franz Von Klemme
1969
5.9
🎬
Dayton's Devils
as Max Eikhart
1968
1.0
Hawaii Five-O
as Dr. Paul Farrar
1968
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
as Klaus Marburg
1968
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
as Djebara
1968
7.1
Mannix
1967
6.7
Garrison's Gorillas
1967
7.8
Mission: Impossible
as Col. Markus von Frank
1966
7.6
Mission: Impossible
as Andrei Fetyakov
1966
7.6
Jericho
1966
6.5
The Rat Patrol
as Capt. Hans Dietrich
1966
7.2
🎬
Blue Light
1966
5.0
The F.B.I.
as Nicholas Blok
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Becker
1965
5.4
Run for Your Life
as Eric Horst
1965
7.2
Run for Your Life
as Janos Takacs
1965
7.2
Morituri
as Radio Officer (uncredited)
1965
6.8
12 O'Clock High
as Maj. Gerhard Bentz
1964
7.2
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Gerd Hoffman
1963
5.3
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Manfred Scharff
1963
5.7
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Kurt Krug
1963
5.7
The Gallant Men
1962
6.0
Combat!
as Drunken German soldier (uncredited)
1962
7.7
Combat!
as Ecktmann
1962
7.7
Combat!
as German Vehicle Commander
1962
7.7
Combat!
as Hans Gruber
1962
7.7
The Virginian
as Augustin
1962
6.4
Operation Eichmann
as Klaus
1961
6.0
77 Sunset Strip
as German Soldier (uncredited)
1958
6.7
Gunsmoke
as Carl Jaekel
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Jack Sinclair
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as William E. Talley
1955
6.6