Eric Braeden
ActingAlso Known As
Hans-Jörg Gudegast
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.
Movies
(33 total)
Titanic
as John Jacob Astor
Den of Thieves
as Ziggy Zerhusen
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
as Dr. Otto Hasslein
Piranha
as Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
as Bruno Von Stickle
Colossus: The Forbin Project
as Dr Charles Forbin
The Ambulance
as The Doctor
100 Rifles
as Lt. Franz Von Klemme
Meet the Deedles
as Elton Deedle
Morituri
as Radio Officer (uncredited)
Lady Ice
as Peter Brinker
The Man Who Came Back
as Reese Paxton
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
as Arlen Findletter
Code Name: Diamond Head
as Ernest Graeber
Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives
as David Morrison
Death Race
as Stoeffer
The Aliens Are Coming
as Leonard Nero
Honeymoon with a Stranger
as Frederico Caprio
Death Scream
as Kosinsky
WWE Unforgiven 2002
as Self
TV Shows
(61 total)
How I Met Your Mother
as Robin Scherbatsky Sr.
The Nanny
as Frank Bradley
Wonder Woman
as Donalsen
Wonder Woman
as Captain Drangel
Murder, She Wrote
as Col. Gerhardt Brunner
The Six Million Dollar Man
as Victor Cheraskin
Mission: Impossible
as Col. Markus von Frank
Mission: Impossible
as Andrei Fetyakov
Charlie's Angels
as John Reardon
The Young and the Restless
as Victor Newman
Hawaii Five-O
as Dr. Paul Farrar
Hawaii Five-O
as Klaus Marburg
Hawaii Five-O
as Djebara
Kojak
as Kenneth Krug
Diagnosis: Murder
as Eric Braeden
Gunsmoke
as Carl Jaekel
Gunsmoke
as Jack Sinclair
Gunsmoke
as William E. Talley
Combat!
as Drunken German soldier (uncredited)