Eric Braeden

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: Acting

Born: Bredenbek, Germany, 1941-04-03

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1961	Operation Eichmann	Klaus	60
2	1965	Morituri	Radio Officer (uncredited)	68
3	1968	Dayton's Devils	Max Eikhart	0
4	1969	100 Rifles	Lt. Franz Von Klemme	59
5	1969	Honeymoon with a Stranger	Frederico Caprio	65
6	1970	The Mask of Sheba	Dr. Roan Morgan	0
7	1970	Colossus: The Forbin Project	Dr Charles Forbin	69
8	1971	Escape from the Planet of the Apes	Dr. Otto Hasslein	64
9	1972	The Judge and Jake Wyler	Anton Granicek	30
10	1973	The Adulteress	Hank Baron	10
11	1973	Intertect	Emhardt	0
12	1973	Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John	Col. Gunter Kroll	0
13	1973	Lady Ice	Peter Brinker	48
14	1973	The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War	Arlen Findletter	65
15	1973	Death Race	Stoeffer	44
16	1974	The Ultimate Thrill	Roland Parlay	45
17	1975	Death Scream	Kosinsky	66
18	1977	Code Name: Diamond Head	Ernest Graeber	30
19	1977	Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo	Bruno Von Stickle	59
20	1978	Piranha	Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)	59
21	1978	Happily Ever After	Ross Ford	0
22	1979	The Power Within	Stephens	0
23	1980	The Aliens Are Coming	Leonard Nero	39
24	1990	The Ambulance	The Doctor	59
25	1993	Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives	David Morrison	68
26	1997	Titanic	John Astor	79
27	1998	Meet the Deedles	Elton Deedle	45
28	1999	The Titanic Chronicles	(voice)	70
29	2002	WWE Unforgiven 2002	Self	64
30	2007	3055 Jean Leon	Self	73
31	2008	The Man Who Came Back	Reese Paxton	50
32	2017	And the Winner Isn't	Self	57
33	2018	Den of Thieves	Ziggy Zerhusen	68

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	Gunsmoke	Carl Jaekel	66
2	1955	Gunsmoke	Jack Sinclair	66
3	1955	Gunsmoke	William E. Talley	66
4	1958	77 Sunset Strip	German Soldier (uncredited)	67
5	1962	The Virginian	Augustin	64
6	1962	Combat!	Drunken German soldier (uncredited)	76
7	1962	Combat!	Hans Gruber	76
8	1962	Combat!	Ecktmann	76
9	1962	Combat!	German Vehicle Commander	76
10	1962	The Gallant Men		60
11	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Manfred Scharff	55
12	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Kurt Krug	55
13	1963	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Gerd Hoffman	53
14	1965	Run for Your Life	Eric Horst	72
15	1965	Run for Your Life	Janos Takacs	72
16	1965	The F.B.I.	Nicholas Blok	56
17	1965	The F.B.I.	Becker	56
18	1966	Blue Light		50
19	1966	The Rat Patrol	Capt. Hans Dietrich	72
20	1966	Jericho		65
21	1967	Garrison's Gorillas		76
22	1967	Mannix		67
23	1968	Mission: Impossible	Col. Markus von Frank	76
24	1968	Mission: Impossible	Andrei Fetyakov	76
25	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Dr. Paul Farrar	71
26	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Klaus Marburg	71
27	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Djebara	71
28	1969	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Pastor Goodleigh	65
29	1970	McCloud		71
30	1970	The Young Rebels		45
31	1971	Cannon		65
32	1972	The Rookies		69
33	1972	Banacek	Paul Bolitho	86
34	1973	Barnaby Jones	Steven Kingston	70
35	1973	The Young and the Restless	Victor Newman	69
36	1973	The Magician	Nelson Paradine	67
37	1973	Kojak	Kenneth Krug	70
38	1974	The Six Million Dollar Man	Victor Cheraskin	73
39	1974	The Daytime Emmy Awards		100
40	1974	Kolchak: The Night Stalker	Bernhardt Stieglitz	76
41	1975	Bronk		62
42	1975	Barbary Coast	Bristol	50
43	1975	Switch	Mike Jenkins	67
44	1975	Switch	Franz Hausner	67
45	1975	Matt Helm	Forbes	74
46	1975	Wonder Woman	Donalsen	70
47	1975	Wonder Woman	Captain Drangel	70
48	1976	Charlie's Angels	John Reardon	66
49	1977	How the West Was Won	Francis Britten	69
50	1977	CHiPs		68
51	1978	The Eddie Capra Mysteries		50
52	1978	Vega$	Arthur Rollins	70
53	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Col. Gerhardt Brunner	75
54	1990	Lucky Chances	Dimitri Stanislopolous	63
55	1993	Diagnosis: Murder	Eric Braeden	71
56	1993	The Nanny	Frank Bradley	81
57	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81
58	2003	Hope & Faith	Lance Taylor	53
59	2005	How I Met Your Mother	Robin Scherbatsky Sr.	82