Eric Braeden
Born: 1941-04-03 in Bredenbek, Germany
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2018
- Den of Thieves as Ziggy Zerhusen
2017
- And the Winner Isn't as Self
2008
- The Man Who Came Back as Reese Paxton
2007
- 3055 Jean Leon as Self
2005
- How I Met Your Mother as Robin Scherbatsky Sr.
2003
- Hope & Faith as Lance Taylor
2002
- WWE Unforgiven 2002 as Self
1999
- The Titanic Chronicles as (voice)
1998
- Meet the Deedles as Elton Deedle
1997
- Titanic as John Jacob Astor
1993
- The Nanny as Frank Bradley
- Diagnosis: Murder as Eric Braeden
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives as David Morrison
1990
- Lucky Chances as Dimitri Stanislopolous
- The Ambulance as The Doctor
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Col. Gerhardt Brunner
1980
- The Aliens Are Coming as Leonard Nero
1979
- The Power Within as Stephens
1978
- Vega$ as Arthur Rollins
- Piranha as Dr. Robert Hoak (swimming double) (uncredited)
- The Eddie Capra Mysteries
- Happily Ever After as Ross Ford
1977
- CHiPs
- How the West Was Won as Francis Britten
- Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo as Bruno Von Stickle
- Code Name: Diamond Head as Ernest Graeber
1976
- Charlie's Angels as John Reardon
1975
- Switch as Mike Jenkins
- Wonder Woman as Donalsen
- Bronk
- Matt Helm as Forbes
- Barbary Coast as Bristol
- Death Scream as Kosinsky
1974
- The Six Million Dollar Man as Victor Cheraskin
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker as Bernhardt Stieglitz
- The Daytime Emmy Awards
- The Ultimate Thrill as Roland Parlay
1973
- Barnaby Jones as Steven Kingston
- Kojak as Kenneth Krug
- The Magician as Nelson Paradine
- The Young and the Restless as Victor Newman
- Lady Ice as Peter Brinker
- The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War as Arlen Findletter
- Death Race as Stoeffer
- Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John as Col. Gunter Kroll
- Intertect as Emhardt
- The Adulteress as Hank Baron
1972
- The Rookies
- Banacek as Paul Bolitho
- The Judge and Jake Wyler as Anton Granicek
1971
- Cannon
- Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law as Mike Benson
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes as Dr. Otto Hasslein
1970
- McCloud as Ravik
- The Young Rebels
- Colossus: The Forbin Project as Dr Charles Forbin
- The Mask of Sheba as Dr. Roan Morgan
1969
- Marcus Welby, M.D. as Pastor Goodleigh
- 100 Rifles as Lt. Franz Von Klemme
- Honeymoon with a Stranger as Frederico Caprio
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Dr. Paul Farrar
- Dayton's Devils as Max Eikhart
1966
- Mission: Impossible as Col. Markus von Frank
- The Rat Patrol as Capt. Hans Dietrich
- Jericho
- Blue Light
1965
- The F.B.I. as Nicholas Blok
- Run for Your Life as Eric Horst
- Morituri as Radio Officer (uncredited)
1964
- 12 O'Clock High as Maj. Gerhard Bentz
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Manfred Scharff
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Gerd Hoffman
1962
- The Virginian as Augustin
- Combat! as Drunken German soldier (uncredited)
- The Gallant Men
1961
- Operation Eichmann as Klaus
1958
- 77 Sunset Strip as German Soldier (uncredited)
1955
- Gunsmoke as Carl Jaekel