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

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	10
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	66
26	1997	Titanic	John Jacob Astor	79
27	1998	Meet the Deedles	Elton Deedle	44
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	47
32	2017	And the Winner Isn't	Self	57
33	2018	Den of Thieves	Ziggy Zerhusen	69

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	65
6	1962	Combat!	Drunken German soldier (uncredited)	77
7	1962	Combat!	Ecktmann	77
8	1962	Combat!	German Vehicle Commander	77
9	1962	Combat!	Hans Gruber	77
10	1962	The Gallant Men		60
11	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Manfred Scharff	57
12	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Kurt Krug	57
13	1963	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Gerd Hoffman	53
14	1964	12 O'Clock High	Maj. Gerhard Bentz	73
15	1965	Run for Your Life	Eric Horst	72
16	1965	Run for Your Life	Janos Takacs	72
17	1965	The F.B.I.	Nicholas Blok	55
18	1965	The F.B.I.	Becker	55
19	1966	Blue Light		50
20	1966	The Rat Patrol	Capt. Hans Dietrich	72
21	1966	Jericho		65
22	1966	Mission: Impossible	Col. Markus von Frank	76
23	1966	Mission: Impossible	Andrei Fetyakov	76
24	1967	Garrison's Gorillas		78
25	1967	Mannix		67
26	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Dr. Paul Farrar	71
27	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Klaus Marburg	71
28	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Djebara	71
29	1969	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Pastor Goodleigh	65
30	1970	McCloud		71
31	1970	The Young Rebels		45
32	1971	Cannon		65
33	1972	The Rookies		68
34	1972	Banacek	Paul Bolitho	86
35	1973	Barnaby Jones	Steven Kingston	69
36	1973	The Young and the Restless	Victor Newman	70
37	1973	The Magician	Nelson Paradine	67
38	1973	Kojak	Kenneth Krug	70
39	1974	The Six Million Dollar Man	Victor Cheraskin	73
40	1974	The Daytime Emmy Awards		100
41	1974	Kolchak: The Night Stalker	Bernhardt Stieglitz	76
42	1975	Bronk		62
43	1975	Barbary Coast	Bristol	50
44	1975	Switch	Mike Jenkins	67
45	1975	Switch	Franz Hausner	67
46	1975	Matt Helm	Forbes	74
47	1975	Wonder Woman	Donalsen	70
48	1975	Wonder Woman	Captain Drangel	70
49	1976	Charlie's Angels	John Reardon	67
50	1977	How the West Was Won	Francis Britten	69
51	1977	CHiPs		68
52	1978	The Eddie Capra Mysteries		50
53	1978	Vega$	Arthur Rollins	70
54	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Col. Gerhardt Brunner	75
55	1990	Lucky Chances	Dimitri Stanislopolous	63
56	1993	Diagnosis: Murder	Eric Braeden	71
57	1993	The Nanny	Frank Bradley	81
58	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81
59	2003	Hope & Faith	Lance Taylor	54
60	2005	How I Met Your Mother	Robin Scherbatsky Sr.	81

Eric Braeden

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