Eric Braeden
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 3, 1941 (age 85)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
Den of Thieves
Movie · as Ziggy Zerhusen
And the Winner Isn't
Movie · as Self
The Talk
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Man Who Came Back
Movie · as Reese Paxton
3055 Jean Leon
Movie · as Self
How I Met Your Mother
TV · as Robin Scherbatsky Sr. · 1 ep
Hope & Faith
TV · as Lance Taylor · 2 eps
WWE Unforgiven 2002
Movie · as Self
The Titanic Chronicles
Movie · as (voice)
Meet the Deedles
Movie · as Elton Deedle
Titanic
Movie · as John Jacob Astor
E! True Hollywood Story
TV · 1 ep
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
Movie · as David Morrison
The Nanny
TV · as Frank Bradley · 1 ep
Diagnosis: Murder
TV · as Eric Braeden · 1 ep
The Ambulance
Movie · as The Doctor
Lucky Chances
TV · as Dimitri Stanislopolous · 3 eps
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Col. Gerhardt Brunner · 1 ep
The Aliens Are Coming
Movie · as Leonard Nero
The Power Within
Movie · as Stephens
Piranha
Movie · as Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)
Happily Ever After
Movie · as Ross Ford
Vega$
TV · as Arthur Rollins · 1 ep
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
TV · 1 ep
Code Name: Diamond Head
Movie · as Ernest Graeber
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Movie · as Bruno Von Stickle
CHiPs
TV · 1 ep
How the West Was Won
TV · as Francis Britten · 3 eps
Charlie's Angels
TV · as John Reardon · 1 ep
Death Scream
Movie · as Kosinsky
Wonder Woman
TV · as Donalsen, Captain Drangel · 1 ep
Switch
TV · as Mike Jenkins, Franz Hausner · 1 ep
Barbary Coast
TV · as Bristol · 1 ep
Bronk
TV · 1 ep
Matt Helm
TV · as Forbes · 1 ep
The Ultimate Thrill
Movie · as Roland Parlay
The Daytime Emmy Awards
TV · 1 ep
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
TV · as Bernhardt Stieglitz · 1 ep
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV · as Victor Cheraskin · 1 ep
The Adulteress
Movie · as Hank Baron
Death Race
Movie · as Stoeffer
Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John
Movie · as Col. Gunter Kroll
Lady Ice
Movie · as Peter Brinker
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
Movie · as Arlen Findletter
Intertect
Movie · as Emhardt
Kojak
TV · as Kenneth Krug · 1 ep
The Young and the Restless
TV · as Victor Newman · 257 eps
The Magician
TV · as Nelson Paradine · 1 ep
Barnaby Jones
TV · as Steven Kingston · 1 ep
The Judge and Jake Wyler
Movie · as Anton Granicek
The Rookies
TV · 1 ep
Banacek
TV · as Paul Bolitho · 1 ep
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Movie · as Dr. Otto Hasslein
Cannon
TV · 1 ep
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV · as Mike Benson · 1 ep
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Movie · as Dr Charles Forbin
The Mask of Sheba
Movie · as Dr. Roan Morgan
The Young Rebels
TV · 1 ep
McCloud
TV · as Ravik · 1 ep
100 Rifles
Movie · as Lt. Franz Von Klemme
Honeymoon with a Stranger
Movie · as Frederico Caprio
Hawaii Five-O
TV · as Dr. Paul Farrar, Klaus Marburg, Djebara · 1 ep
Marcus Welby, M.D.
TV · as Pastor Goodleigh · 1 ep
Dayton's Devils
Movie · as Max Eikhart
Garrison's Gorillas
TV · 1 ep
Mannix
TV · 1 ep
Mission: Impossible
TV · as Col. Markus von Frank, Andrei Fetyakov · 1 ep
The Rat Patrol
TV · as Capt. Hans Dietrich · 58 eps
Jericho
TV · 2 eps
Blue Light
TV · 1 ep
Morituri
Movie · as Radio Officer (uncredited)
The F.B.I.
TV · as Nicholas Blok, Becker · 1 ep
Run for Your Life
TV · as Eric Horst, Janos Takacs · 2 eps
12 O'Clock High
TV · as Maj. Gerhard Bentz · 1 ep
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV · as Gerd Hoffman · 1 ep
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV · as Manfred Scharff, Kurt Krug · 1 ep
The Gallant Men
TV · 1 ep
Combat!
TV · as Drunken German soldier (uncredited), Hans Gruber, Ecktmann, German Vehicle Commander · 1 ep
The Virginian
TV · as Augustin · 1 ep
Operation Eichmann
Movie · as Klaus
77 Sunset Strip
TV · as German Soldier (uncredited) · 1 ep
Gunsmoke
TV · as Carl Jaekel, Jack Sinclair, William E. Talley · 1 ep