Eric Braeden
- Acting
- April 3, 1941 · Bredenbek, Germany
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
Filmography
- Den of Thieves · Ziggy Zerhusen
- And the Winner Isn't · Self
- The Talk · Self
- The Man Who Came Back · Reese Paxton, Executive producer
- 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
- Happily Ever After · Ross Ford
- 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, Captain Drangel
- Death Scream · Kosinsky
- Matt Helm · Forbes
- Switch · Mike Jenkins, Franz Hausner
- 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
- Hawaii Five-O · Dr. Paul Farrar, Klaus Marburg
- 100 Rifles · Lt. Franz Von Klemme
- Dayton's Devils · Max Eikhart
- Mannix
- Garrison's Gorillas
- Mission: Impossible · Col. Markus von Frank, Andrei Fetyakov
- Jericho
- The Rat Patrol · Capt. Hans Dietrich
- Blue Light
- The F.B.I. · Nicholas Blok, Becker
- Run for Your Life · Eric Horst, Janos Takacs
- Morituri · Radio Officer (uncredited)
- 12 O'Clock High · Maj. Gerhard Bentz
- Kraft Suspense Theatre · Gerd Hoffman
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre · Manfred Scharff, Kurt Krug
- The Gallant Men
- Combat! · Drunken German soldier (uncredited), Hans Gruber
- The Virginian · Augustin
- Operation Eichmann · Klaus