Eric Braeden
Actor
Born April 3, 1941 in 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
Den of Thieves
Ziggy Zerhusen
And the Winner Isn't
Self
The Talk
Self
The Man Who Came Back
Reese Paxton
3055 Jean Leon
Self
How I Met Your Mother
Robin Scherbatsky Sr.
Hope & Faith
Lance Taylor
WWE Unforgiven 2002
Self
The Titanic Chronicles
(voice)
Meet the Deedles
Elton Deedle
Titanic
John Jacob Astor
E! True Hollywood Story
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
David Morrison
The Nanny
Frank Bradley
Diagnosis: Murder
Eric Braeden
Lucky Chances
Dimitri Stanislopolous
The Ambulance
The Doctor
Murder, She Wrote
Col. Gerhardt Brunner
The Aliens Are Coming
Leonard Nero
The Power Within
Stephens
Vega$
Arthur Rollins
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
Piranha
Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)
CHiPs
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Bruno Von Stickle
Code Name: Diamond Head
Ernest Graeber
How the West Was Won
Francis Britten
Charlie's Angels
John Reardon
Wonder Woman
Donalsen
Death Scream
Kosinsky
Matt Helm
Forbes
Switch
Mike Jenkins
Barbary Coast
Bristol
Bronk
The Ultimate Thrill
Roland Parlay
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Bernhardt Stieglitz
The Daytime Emmy Awards
The Six Million Dollar Man
Victor Cheraskin
Death Race
Stoeffer
Kojak
Kenneth Krug
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
Arlen Findletter
The Magician
Nelson Paradine
Lady Ice
Peter Brinker
Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John
Col. Gunter Kroll
The Young and the Restless
Victor Newman
Intertect
Emhardt
Barnaby Jones
Steven Kingston
The Adulteress
Hank Baron
The Judge and Jake Wyler
Anton Granicek
Banacek
Paul Bolitho
The Rookies
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Mike Benson
Cannon
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Dr. Otto Hasslein
The Young Rebels
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Dr Charles Forbin
The Mask of Sheba
Dr. Roan Morgan
McCloud
Ravik
Honeymoon with a Stranger
Frederico Caprio
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Pastor Goodleigh
100 Rifles
Lt. Franz Von Klemme
Hawaii Five-O
Dr. Paul Farrar
Mannix
Garrison's Gorillas
Mission: Impossible
Col. Markus von Frank
Jericho
The Rat Patrol
Capt. Hans Dietrich
Blue Light
The F.B.I.
Nicholas Blok
Run for Your Life
Eric Horst
Morituri
Radio Officer (uncredited)
12 O'Clock High
Maj. Gerhard Bentz
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Gerd Hoffman
The Gallant Men
Combat!
Drunken German soldier (uncredited)
The Virginian
Augustin
Operation Eichmann
Klaus
77 Sunset Strip
German Soldier (uncredited)
Gunsmoke
Carl Jaekel